Controversy Erupts After Students Forced to Remove Shirts With Positive Message

[NikLR 13,227]

We don't need more mindless drones in our society, we need thinkers and creators. Making everyone monotone removes creativity and uniqueness.

What is "yanno?"

I think money into school programs especially arts and music, would be a more productive way to encourage creativity.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Yanno is OUR word and i'll thank you not to use it.

Yea, what he said

You know how we get, forgetting our place and what not...

Gonna say, isn't it Canadian? Like giv'er?

That's what I thought. Because Teddy uses it as well and his wife is from there.

[GandD 5,966]

Gonna say, isn't it Canadian? Like giv'er?

EH? Now say Toronto and try to make it not sound like toronno.

You know how we get, forgetting our place and what not...

Great, I'm not gonna get yelled at by Jinx again am i?

[NikLR 13,227]

I can! But I'm west coast. Lol!

[GandD 5,966]

I can! But I'm west coast. Lol!

You should hear how we Kentuckians say "Louisville" sounds like Loo-vul

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

EH? Now say Toronto and try to make it not sound like toronno.

Great, I'm not gonna get yelled at by Jinx again am i?

You're cool as long as you don't use words like uppity. That was a mess I kept trying to clean up.

I think he was an okay guy, just was wound a tad too tight. That would be me if I didn't remind myself to remain awesome at all times.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

So because I'm black I should know what "yanno" means?

It's a secret word used by whites.

[NikLR 13,227]

You should hear how we Kentuckians say "Louisville" sounds like Loo-vul

I'll get my husband to say it when he's home. He's the ine with the southern accent.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Yanno is their version of namean.

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/na-mean

Please try and keep up, just because you're cute doesn't mean you get to slack off...

Hahaha Stop being silly!

I am not a slacker BTW! I should have used Google first.

Yanno is OUR word and i'll thank you not to use it.

Yea, what he said

Hey, I need a tan right now. Does that still count or are you going by the one drop rule?

And never agree with Marv if you know what is good for you.

I think money into school programs especially arts and music, would be a more productive way to encourage creativity.

Freedom to express oneself positively is also another way to produce creativity. I do also agree with more arts in schools.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Pfft.

They should have taken off their t-shirts right there at the cafeteria!

What a lame protest!

[Pooky 3,784]

Plenty of opportunity to make your point outside of school, they were pushing it to see how far they could go,quite normal.

But the bullying was of another student at the school, so wearing the T-shirts at school was very much the appropriate forum.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Simply put, the shirts did not, in fact, appear to be against the dress code until OTHER PEOPLE (not the students in question) began to make a big deal out of it. Rather than teach the students ACTUALLY causing problems some manners or making any attempt to deal with them, the students who were the TARGET of this disruption were asked to change.

This is akin to a student coming to school with her hair cut short and other students targeting her for this, calling her a boy, and her being blamed and sent home. Which, by the way, HAS happened in America.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Simply put, the shirts did not, in fact, appear to be against the dress code until OTHER PEOPLE (not the students in question) began to make a big deal out of it. Rather than teach the students ACTUALLY causing problems some manners or making any attempt to deal with them, the students who were the TARGET of this disruption were asked to change.

This is akin to a student coming to school with her hair cut short and other students targeting her for this, calling her a boy, and her being blamed and sent home. Which, by the way, HAS happened in America.

Thank you. They completely ignored the reason behind why the students chose to wear the shirts in the first place. Bullying in schools is consistently ignored in the U.S. and it sucks.

[Darnell 8,478]

Schools should all have mandatory uniforms IMO.

just a quickie note - this happened in McKinney, the same city that had the barrel roll cop chasing the black teens.

You should hear how we Kentuckians say "Louisville" sounds like Loo-vul

that's the correct (but frenchified ) pronounciation.