are we blowing stuff out of proportion

[Bluedemon322]

The hell? That stands for French Connection United Kingdom doesn't it? Whats innapropriate about that? It's pure coincidence that it's similar to fuck. Should they stop teaching R.E because its the first half of "retard"? Somebody might find it offensive!

You blew that completely out of proportion, Using a terrible example.

You see "FCUK" can commonly be mistake for "FUCK"

"R.E" is not commonly mistaken for "RETARD" because only a retard would not see the other 4 letters.

So only a retard would get offended by it.

Yea...but thats most of the staff....Anyway i got sent home for the FCUK thing too...

 

[Rigs83]

Hell in the US they strip searched a kid because they thought she had ibuprofen. Not coke, weed, guns or knives... ibuprofen.
Apparently the school has a zero tolerance for any drugs over the counter unless they have written permission.
I like the idea of zero tolerance for children because it teaches them young to hate school, teachers, and authority so they can grow up to be good law abiding citizens.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/19/scotus.strip.search/index.html

 

[Shapsters]

Free speech my ass. I am tempted to go to school with a T-shirt like that.

T-Shirt like what? FCUK? That is a name brand!

Or do you mean free speech my ass?

 

[Xyphon]

Schools will be schools.....

I got sent home once because I had a mohawk. They classified it as a gang thing. The fuck?

I have a question. was it an actual mohawk or was it one of those trendy fauxhawks? If it was a fauxhawk i would have sent you home on principle. God those things just annoy me so much & the main reason people do it is because they are narcasstic & need constant attention by being "trendy"(no offense). A real mohawk i can tolerate & would atleast respect because you did it because you thought it looked good, rather then you were just following the herd.

I work with kids & its actually pretty suprising, but we have found that guys with that stupid fauxhawk are almost always self centered jerks. I wonder if its intentional jerkyness or if the hair is like a dumbass antenna.

-M

I chose it because I hated how my mother shaved my head almost bald when I was a child. It was probably not a real mohawk nor fauxhawk. It was really just a strip of hair that I dubbed mohawk. xD

 

[vampirekid.13]

kid at my school came in with a t-shirt that said "i hate, spicks, wops, degos, paki's, chinks, gooks, ni**ers and racists"
he wasn't sent ome or anything

don't hold it against me that i asterisked the two g's, i don't want to get banned

here's a great example of this society taking shit too far.


you feel comfortable saying the others, but not the n word, its funny because there really is no diff between all of them, so why is ONE specifically treated differently, and no i dont mean just you, i mean people in general.


in the same school i mentioned earlier we had an african american culture club. it was a nice place for african american descendents to get togheter and cook/learn about african american things, and everyone else that wanted to learn was welcome.


so i put in a request for a caucasian club, same premise, we get to learn and cook and do the cool things caucasians do and everyone is welcome. GUESS WHAT IM RACISST. according to the school at least.

I find that you did not say ****** in your post, probably for the same reason that you stated. I find this rather hypocritical.

Any way, my school is moderate on the dress code thing and you don't get sent home because no one lives anywhere near it and they can't let the freshman be wandering the busy streets because they were wearing a bandana.

Though if you do have a bandana in my school, you will probably get a four hour Saturday detention.

but i woudlnt say any of the others either. i dont feel comfortable saying any of them, not just the one referring to african americans.

 

[lacktheknack]

someone i know just got sent home from school because his shirt "depicts inappropriate material"

he was wearing a t-shirt with the official FCUK logo, and a big FCUK on it.


....

the question is this...are we becoming too sensible to where something that innocent can be portrayed as something so bad? it definately seems like common sense and understanding is lost in todays society and we just throw the banhammer too easily at someone IN REAL LIFE.

Well, two problems here, the company wouldn't call themselves FCUK if they didn't want to push the envelope, and the kid also wouldn't WEAR said shirt if he didn't want to push the envelope. So common sense states that FCUK should be considered an envelope pusher, hence "inappropriate".

 

[Kuchinawa212]

It's ok, I bet this is all stuff we can look back on and laugh about.

Ehh "Always look on the bright side of life..."

 

[frank220]

A kid was sent home for wearing a gold Crucifix chain in my 8th grade year for "imposing Christianity on Jewish and Muslim students." The reason he wears it is because it was given to him by his mother who had died of cancer a year before the incident.

 

[TankCopter]

The thing about my school (in WA) is that denim is banned throughout the state because it is apparently inappropriate. What the hell is so inappropriate about a fabric? It's the strangest rule that the Education Minister probably imposed after having some rich private school owner comment on one kid wearing jeans.

Our school is also very subtly racist. Because there are a lot of aboriginal kids at our school, they get a lot of special treatment. Uniform rules basically don't apply to them, they get fed, and they can get away with swearing their heads off, threatening people, and plenty of other stuff a white kid would get suspended for. Sure, I get that they can't always get food or uniforms, that's fine with me, but why should they be able to get away with so much? According to the school, it's how their parents talk at home. Well hooray. I know plenty of white kids whose lives are just as crappy and whose parents are just as bad, but they get none of this treatment. The school has such low expectations for these kids, they might get into fights every day except one, where they swear all day, and they'll get an award or something for NOT GETTING INTO FIGHTS.
The school basically says 'you can do all this, because your parents are lazy drunks.' Will society have the same view? No. Aboriginal leaders and plenty of human rights activists go on about how the huge number of aboriginal inmates in prisons is racism, but it isn't. These people committed crimes and they went to jail same as everybody else.

I also like how only white people can be racist.

 

[Amnestic]

The thing about my school (in WA) is that denim is banned throughout the state because it is apparently inappropriate.

I trust you have a source to back up this claim?

 

[0p3rati0n]

I had the police dispatched to my home, to search my room, because I drew a picture of counter-terrorist officers, clearly marked as being part of law enforcement, with guns. Read that sentence as many times as it takes for the stupidity to hit you like a load of bricks.

I was thirteen. Fucking thirteen.

EDIT: It didn't stop with that one incident in just that one school, either. It continued until I eventually dropped out because I was being pestered to death by overzealous administrative officials constantly having me put on observation, just because I brought a "Guns 'n Ammo" magazine to school.

This is fine to your standards, how?!?!?!?!

 

[Slayer_2]

The brand "FCUK" is moronic at best. While I feel that way, I cannot help but agree that what is happening to schools across north american, sissification (a real term ), is disgusting. People learn better without padded walls and straight-jackets.

 

[Tartarga]

i went to school with a t-shirt similar to that but all they made me do was turn it inside out

 

[Vivaldi]

The thing about my school (in WA) is that denim is banned throughout the state because it is apparently inappropriate.

I trust you have a source to back up this claim?

Second. I live in WA, this smells odd to me.

 

[mooncalf]

How do I love catholic schools.

Zombies, undead, (Death) Metal bands, zombie hands grabbing the tits of the wearer, skeleton hands raising the middle-finger, 666 or some bad words? No problem at all!

We aren't allowed to wear piercings (besides in the earlobe) in the area around the principle's office or in the classrooms of teachers that don't like them, mind you.

In compensation, Religious Education teachers may swear.

Sounds totally fair! If staff gave that kind of license to the students, and students don't try to obnoxiously rub it in the staff's faces, then there's a mutual respect going on that makes everything fine!

And you'd think the Catholic school would be more straightlaced.

Anyhow, education is full of small injustices, good luck holding your own.

 

[theultimateend]

someone i know just got sent home from school because his shirt "depicts inappropriate material"

he was wearing a t-shirt with the official FCUK logo, and a big FCUK on it.


....

the question is this...are we becoming too sensible to where something that innocent can be portrayed as something so bad? it definately seems like common sense and understanding is lost in todays society and we just throw the banhammer too easily at someone IN REAL LIFE.

Very few people are easily offended.

A supremely small percentage in fact. However! These are the people that are elected into offices all over the country and because of it we all suffer.

The thing about my school (in WA) is that denim is banned throughout the state because it is apparently inappropriate.

I trust you have a source to back up this claim?

Second. I live in WA, this smells odd to me.

Doesn't denim in Washington always smell odd? (I too live in Washington so I'm equally suspicious).

 

[Lunar Shadow]

My friend was doing a report on spirals in art and included a symobl called a Mani, which most people would think is a Nazi swastika. Because of this he nearly got in trouble, I managed to save his ass by quickly explaining that it was a Buddhist symbol(which is why he put it i n there, as a nod to the fact I had recently converted).

 

[Satoz]

Actually a student doesnt have free speech in school, and im sorry but just because you want to say words like fuck, ******, whitey (though thats ok for some reason) cracker, doesnt mean we all want to read it on some kids shirt, some kid who is probably wearing it because he thinks it makes him mr.badass (please excuse my language but I dont want anyone telling me im just scared of those words)

You see you have to respect other peoples rights too, though you might be in the majority, what about those 14 kids who hate those words, who feel antagonized by shirts with things like that on them, are you saying they dont count, you who feel oppressed dont think of them...

Yeah I know curse words should be allowed at work to some degree, I mean we only hide them, I think penn and tellers show bullshit said it best "we gift rap" bad words into thinks like crud or darnit, or even by saying african american. Everyone feels weird saying that, its not natural but we do it to be PC, because society as a whole is more comfortable like that. Saying ****** is offensive, but whats more offensive to me is that white people can be insulted and wont get that special protection....

Still despite that it is a bit out of proportion to get mad at someone for a Mohawk, but if you walk in with obscene words on your shirt that asking for trouble, those words to me are great when they really mean something, but they mean nothing, they have no shock value if everyone could slap them on a shirt and lunchbox. I know its annoying, but we also have to see that society has rules for a reason