WOW,& my kid cant have a RMGO sticker on his binder.

[Mobat555]

Male students wearing brightly colored pastels distracts from my son's ability to learn.
Female students wearing Pants distracts from my son's ability to learn.
religious symbols distract from my son's ability to learn.
National flags, political agendas, Testing, Conformity, and rules all distract from my son's ability to learn.

so where's that pesky line again?


its a sticker expressing support for a civil right and political cause.

I am with you, uniforms all the way.

I am all for keeping politics outside of any class except history.

[SouthPaw]

Zero tolerance is BS. They have taken it way out of control. Stickers are not dangerous. I'm not that old either but I did carry a pocket knife to school EVERY SINGLE DAY...and even used it as a tool when needed. Hell, I can remember times when teachers would ask the students if they could use their knifes. We brought water guns to school all the time...something that would get you suspended now.

Zero tolerance rules are out of line and without a doubt are partially responsible for demonizing guns in our society from the ground up. After all, the kids are our future and if you want to change the future, you do it with the kids. That applies to this other kid's t shirt too...

True story: I was almost suspended/expelled because I bought a $.50 "gun" quarter machine key chain from a local pizza hut and brought with me to school when I was in elementary. Another student told a teacher I had a gun in my pocket. It was on a key chain and MAYBE 3/8'' big. IIRC, I was in 2nd or 3rd grade?

I believe the zero tolerance policy is BS too but unfortunatly we/the students have to follow it. I wonder if he would have got the same reaction had it been a anti-gun sticker.

[Ronin13]

BS! I remember my friend got suspended on two occasions in High School- one was when he wore an NRA tee shirt- that's it, it just had the NRA logo on the breast, about 3". The second was when he wore this:

His main argument against this behavior was pretty funny: "Oh I get suspended for wearing a shirt making fun of Nazi's but kids can wear iron crosses everywhere [Independent Skate Company]. Who wore Iron Crosses? Oh yeah, the SS..."
I hate the whole school and freedom of speech thing, I've seen kids wearing marijuana shirts and get away with it, but the second one wears realtree (yes it happened to my friends son) they get "warned." And God forbid you wear anything pro-gun...

[BPTactical]

Male students wearing brightly colored pastels distracts from my son's ability to learn.
Female students wearing Pants distracts from my son's ability to learn.
religious symbols distract from my son's ability to learn.
National flags, political agendas, Testing, Conformity, and rules all distract from my son's ability to learn.

so where's that pesky line again?


its a sticker expressing support for a civil right and political cause.

I don't care what a student wears or who they pray to.

The biggest obstacle to a childs learning is uneducated educators and a nanny state thinking they know best for the child.

Never before have their been so many compelling arguments for home schooling.

[Ronin13]

I don't care what a student wears or who they pray to.

The biggest obstacle to a childs learning is uneducated educators and a nanny state thinking they know best for the child.

Never before have their been so many compelling arguments for home schooling.

Ahem, I also need to mention, because I encountered it a lot in school, even college- Stupid educators that TEACH their political beliefs instead of warning "this next part is only my opinion." If I hear one more teacher say something that is educating their political views I will call them out!

[Tinelement]

Wow! Some crazy stories in here.

I guess I got a lot to look forward to when my first starts school in a few yrs!

I grew up in the sticks of northern Wis, and we could pretty anything we wanted! I graduated in '98.

My hunting buddy and I used to skip school every morning in the fall to slay the green heads, always had a shot gun in my truck. They even put a picture of the 2 of us in the year book hiding behind a car with our shot guns pretending to be dodging the principle on our way out to the swamp! We were in the school parking lot when the took they picture.

Good luck with getting the binder scout!

[BPTactical]

Wow! Some crazy stories in here.

I guess I got a lot to look forward to when my first starts school in a few yrs!

I grew up in the sticks of northern Wis, and we could pretty anything we wanted! I graduated in '98.

My hunting buddy and I used to skip school every morning in the fall to slay the green heads, always had a shot gun in my truck. They even put a picture of the 2 of us in the year book hiding behind a car with our shot guns pretending to be dodging the principle on our way out to the swamp! We were in the school parking lot when the took they picture.

Good luck with getting the binder scout!

I know what you mean Tin- my freshman year in High School I built a copy of the Modena Rifle, a tomahawk and a couple of Bowie knives in Industrial Arts.
We had a couple of guys that were avid bird hunters that brought their shotguns in for the teacher to look at. We lived on the border of Arapahoe/Jeffco and a bunch of guys had rifles in racks on their trucks. Half of them never locked their trucks either.

[aahorn]

Wow! Some crazy stories in here.

I guess I got a lot to look forward to when my first starts school in a few yrs!

I grew up in the sticks of northern Wis, and we could pretty anything we wanted! I graduated in '98.

My hunting buddy and I used to skip school every morning in the fall to slay the green heads, always had a shot gun in my truck. They even put a picture of the 2 of us in the year book hiding behind a car with our shot guns pretending to be dodging the principle on our way out to the swamp! We were in the school parking lot when the took they picture.

Good luck with getting the binder scout!

I know what you mean Tin- my freshman year in High School I built a copy of the Modena Rifle, a tomahawk and a couple of Bowie knives in Industrial Arts.
We had a couple of guys that were avid bird hunters that brought their shotguns in for the teacher to look at. We lived on the border of Arapahoe/Jeffco and a bunch of guys had rifles in racks on their trucks. Half of them never locked their trucks either.

if you tell these stories to the CU boulder students the would cry and think boulder was invaded by martians sounds awesome

[sellersm]

I'm a bit older, and grew up in Western NY state, but in high school (mid-70's) we had a (wait for it) RIFLE TEAM! Yup, I'd carry my single shot target .22 rifle to school, put it in my locker and after school, head down to the basement where the range was! There were 5 of us on the team, and we did pretty well. Had one kid who was excellent and he went on to do great things in the sport!

How times have changed... Good luck with the school system.

[Fmedges]

if you tell these stories to the CU boulder students the would cry and think boulder was invaded by martians sounds awesome

Awesome. When I went to school they relied on fights to keep the bullying down. Now that they completely got rid of any type of school yard justice they wonder why bullying is a problem. Idiots.