Georgia Middle School Students plan to Break Dress Code. Suspended for Terrorism

[Erttheking]

I am dead serious.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/middle-school-students-plan-break-dress-code-principal-screams-terrorism/193602/

And the students are being punished by writing essays on why civil disobedience is bad.

Show of hands, who would like it if stupid people in the United States south would stop being given positions of power so that we can hear about the fine smart people the south has to offer? Just for a change.

On a side note, this really does show a lot of the problems with the American education system. Obey whatever the teachers and principles says, no matter how little sense it makes.

Plus dress codes are stupid anyway.

 

[Elfgore]

Spoiler: My reaction upon reading the thread title

I can't head tilt hard enough!

This is just absurd. The guy in the article nailed it when he said the word terrorism means practically nothing anymore, since the government throws it around willy nilly. I hope someone does something about this and their suspension gets revoked and the dumbass of a principle gets canned.

 

[Queen Michael]

If that principal donesn't get fired for this, there is no god. The terrorism thing is obviously stupid, but suspending them for a violation they never actually went through with? To quote the great Shakespeare, "What the fornicate, Horatio?"

 

[Colour Scientist]

This story seems like a storm in a teacup, if you ask me.

The principal backed down, they haven't been suspended, they just have to write an essay.

There isn't a whole lot of information there, it doesn't really say exactly what the students were planning and it seems to be dramatising the whole event.

*shrugs*

It just kind of seems like a non-issue to me.

 

[shootthebandit]

There really isnt enough detail here. Just out of interest what ethnicity were these kids? I know it shouldnt make a difference but if for example they are islamic and the school forbids islamic attire then accusing them of being terrorists is not only as stupid as it would be with anyone else but its also massively racist

And the students are being punished by writing essays on why civil disobedience is bad.

What a great way to encourage free thinking eh? I dont know much about american states but wasnt Georgia one of the states with freedom riders and sit ins? Surely they should be promoting civil disobedience

 

[Euryalus]

Well that's... I mean I... But... Fuck it! I give up trying to understand the motivations behind stupid. This is ludicrous.

Dress codes in schools are almost always goofy or puritanical anyway. What? Is that girl's skirt going to get caught in machinery and cause a "workplace" injury?

Is my hat so well crafted and beautiful it's distracting everyone around me in a quantifiable way?

I'm going to guess no, though I can't cite any sources

They're just rules that are there not for utility, but just because norms or something and such.

And getting in that much trouble for what is basically a right in any ways is crazy.

 

[Euryalus]

The principal backed down, they haven't been suspended, they just have to write an essay.

But that alone is bullshit.

 

[Colour Scientist]

The principal backed down, they haven't been suspended, they just have to write an essay.

But that alone is bullshit.

Well, to be fair, they were planning on breaking the dress code which is breaking the rules of the school.

Some schools have stricter dress codes than others and while we may not agree with it, the kids knew that these were the rules and planned to break them. An essay isn't that big of a deal.

I went to a school where people were known to get detention for having an unkempt uniform.

 

[shootthebandit]

This story seems like a storm in a teacup, if you ask me.

The principal backed down, they haven't been suspended, they just have to write an essay.

There isn't a whole lot of information there, it doesn't really say exactly what the students were planning and it seems to be dramatising the whole event.

*shrugs*

It just kind of seems like a non-issue to me.

I agree that there isnt enough info. Like I said if the rules forbid religious attire then yes the kids are justified and to call them terrorists for protesting is out of order. If its just a case of not being allowed to wear blue on a friday then its trivial

just being made to write an essay as a punishment isnt so bad but in Georgia (which I believe was a segregated state) to make people write an essay saying civil disobedience is bad is pretty insensitive. These kids could have had grandparents (black and white) who fought against segregation in their state and then have to write an essay condemning it

 

[Queen Michael]

The headline here is a bit misleading. They never actually violated the dress code.

 

[SirDerpy]

Spoiler: My reaction upon reading the thread title

I can't head tilt hard enough!

Spoiler: Bit of a tame reaction, don't you think?

I uphold that this is the sufficient level of "Wat" necessary for that headline.

Okay, okay, so after reading the article itself, it's far less extreme than it sounds.

But still pretty damn extreme. What the hell does breaking dress code have to do with terrorism? Unless they walked in with bomb vests or something...

Make 'em write essays on disobedience all you want, but making accusations of "terroristic threat"? What?

 

[Erttheking]

The headline here is a bit misleading. They never actually violated the dress code.

That honestly just makes the whole situation worse. But I will change the title.

 

[senordesol]

What was he planning on wearing? I didn't see it mentioned in the article.

It'd be one thing if it was -say- a sleeveless shirt. It'd be another thing if this was a 'Death to America' T-Shirt.

Not that either thing warrants a suspension for 'terrorism', don't misunderstand, but I always hesitate to rush to someone's defense if I'm not sure what they were planning to do in the first place.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Well, to be fair, they were planning on breaking the dress code which is breaking the rules of the school.

Some schools have stricter dress codes than others and while we may not agree with it, the kids knew that these were the rules and planned to break them. An essay isn't that big of a deal.

I went to a school where people were known to get detention for having an unkempt uniform.

I don't so much mind that they have to write an essay over this. However, the choice of topic is extremely unpalatable from my point of view. Civil disobedience is actually one of the best ways of showing a rule or law to be unfair. Why would anyone want to discourage that unless they have given up any pretense of living in a free society?

 

[Colour Scientist]

Well, to be fair, they were planning on breaking the dress code which is breaking the rules of the school.

Some schools have stricter dress codes than others and while we may not agree with it, the kids knew that these were the rules and planned to break them. An essay isn't that big of a deal.

I went to a school where people were known to get detention for having an unkempt uniform.

I don't so much mind that they have to write an essay over this. However, the choice of topic is extremely unpalatable from my point of view. Civil disobedience is actually one of the best ways of showing a rule or law to be unfair. Why would anyone want to discourage that unless they have given up any pretense of living in a free society?

Yeah, granted, the topic of the essay is pretty stupid.

 

[Darks63]

And after they write this Essay they have to read Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience as part of the english course.

 

[Queen Michael]

The headline here is a bit misleading. They never actually violated the dress code.

That honestly just makes the whole situation worse.

Sure does. Homework is the only area where it's appropriate to punish students for things they didn't do.

 

[FrozenCones]

Spoiler: My reaction upon reading the thread title

I can't head tilt hard enough!

Its alright buddy. Ive got you covered.

Spoiler

 

[Fox12]

Oh lord, we're in the news again. Sorry everybody, most of us aren't that bad, I swear. We try to keep the old white guys in the retirement homes, where they belong, but every once in a while one breaks out and becomes the principal of a school. Atleast it's not one of my teachers getting arrested for child pornography again. Twice is enough for one life time.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Figures of authority in the deep south calling something he doesn't like terrorism? Shit, if this man never called anything his old wrinkly ass couldn't understand terrorism, he just wouldn't be a southerner.

And after they write this Essay they have to read Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience as part of the english course.

The irony of American education. It teaches obedience to the status quo while celebrating the, in their time revolutionary, figures who created it out of the ruins of the old status quo.

Hell, the founding fathers committed revolutionary violence and the whole nation celebrates them. If somebody merely ideologically supports revolution in a modern setting, you are taught to view them as a traitor.