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Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt

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An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned.
Daniel McIntyre, 44, of Genoa, told FoxNews.com that his 14-year-old son, Michael, was asked to remove the T-shirt by eighth-grade teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday. Deverell, citing the school’s dress code, said the garment’s interlocking rifles was problematic and had to be removed from sight, McIntyre said.

Read more: Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt | Fox News

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I though the cons were all about following the rules and laws of society? I mean, just remove the damn shirt.

Like the cons are for smaller governemet, i guess it's just another myth.


i just love this part:

“He was upset, he couldn’t understand it,” he continued. “He couldn’t understand why a teacher would make him do that.”

LOL, playing the "VICTIM". :lol:
 
An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned.
Daniel McIntyre, 44, of Genoa, told FoxNews.com that his 14-year-old son, Michael, was asked to remove the T-shirt by eighth-grade teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday. Deverell, citing the school’s dress code, said the garment’s interlocking rifles was problematic and had to be removed from sight, McIntyre said.

Read more: Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt | Fox News

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I though the cons were all about following the rules and laws of society? I mean, just remove the damn shirt.

Like the cons are for smaller governemet, i guess it's just another myth.

What seems to be the problem with a USMC shirt with interlocking rifles?

The PC police are out of their minds!:cry:
 
What seems to be the problem with a USMC shirt with interlocking rifles?

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Well, obviously he has broken a school rule. It's not for me to determine what is wrong with the shirt.
 
It is is a FoxRage, occassionally one of them it true, but it is rare, I am gonna investigate.
 
How is having a dress code fit in with small government to begin with? It doesn't appear you understand the concepts behind any of the tenets you think you're blasting. Unless the dress code is school specific and decided upon by the local parents groups, it's a big government decision. In this case, it's definitely a sign of nanny government in action. Protecting the poor innocent bairns from seeing eViL rifles.
 
An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned.
Daniel McIntyre, 44, of Genoa, told FoxNews.com that his 14-year-old son, Michael, was asked to remove the T-shirt by eighth-grade teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday. Deverell, citing the school’s dress code, said the garment’s interlocking rifles was problematic and had to be removed from sight, McIntyre said.

Read more: Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt | Fox News

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I though the cons were all about following the rules and laws of society? I mean, just remove the damn shirt.

Like the cons are for smaller governemet, i guess it's just another myth.


i just love this part:

“He was upset, he couldn’t understand it,” he continued. “He couldn’t understand why a teacher would make him do that.”

LOL, playing the "VICTIM". :lol:


Was the liberal teacher scared that one of the rifles depicted on the t-shirt would go off or something? gheeze.
 
An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned.
Daniel McIntyre, 44, of Genoa, told FoxNews.com that his 14-year-old son, Michael, was asked to remove the T-shirt by eighth-grade teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday. Deverell, citing the school’s dress code, said the garment’s interlocking rifles was problematic and had to be removed from sight, McIntyre said.

Read more: Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt | Fox News

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I though the cons were all about following the rules and laws of society? I mean, just remove the damn shirt.

Like the cons are for smaller governemet, i guess it's just another myth.


i just love this part:

“He was upset, he couldn’t understand it,” he continued. “He couldn’t understand why a teacher would make him do that.”

LOL, playing the "VICTIM". :lol:

Long before all this started my husband gave the kid's shirts that said "stand back 100 feet or you will be shot" in arabic. . . no way in hell was I letting them wear it to SCHOOL.

*sigh*
 
Time to start selling T-shirts that say, "My other T-shirt has a gun on it".
 
Well, obviously he has broken a school rule. It's not for me to determine what is wrong with the shirt.

you have obviously not read the article. why would you comment on an article you have not read?

do everyone - mostly yourself - a favor and read the article before continuing to discuss it.


Brett McPherson, the school’s principal, referred questions to Genoa-Kingston Superintendent Joe Burgess, who reiterated that the shirt is not in violation of the district’s dress policy.
 
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I though the cons were all about following the rules and laws of society? I mean, just remove the damn shirt.

Like the cons are for smaller governemet, i guess it's just another myth.
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i just love this part:

“He was upset, he couldn’t understand it,” he continued. “He couldn’t understand why a teacher would make him do that.”

LOL, playing the "VICTIM". :lol:


Sorry, but in this case the teacher was wrong. Not only did the shirt not violate school dress code policy (As per what the superintendent said in the article), the teacher did not even report the incident.
 
I can find nothing about it in the local papers, which makes me wonder. I does not sound like the shirt really was in violation of the dress code. And certainly not because of some USA hating liberal in education hating on my Marine Corps, like Fox and the rest are alluding to. Fox does bother me, but now the RW blogosphere has gotten hold of it I am having a hard time finding a creditable source.

I find this quote interesting:


Brett McPherson, the school’s principal, referred questions to Genoa-Kingston Superintendent Joe Burgess, who reiterated that the shirt is not in violation of the district’s dress policy.



Read more: Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt | Fox News
 
you have obviously not read the article. why would you comment on an article you have not read?

do everyone - mostly yourself - a favor and read the article before continuing to discuss it.


Brett McPherson, the school’s principal, referred questions to Genoa-Kingston Superintendent Joe Burgess, who reiterated that the shirt is not in violation of the district’s dress policy.


So no violation, just an emotional, over reaction, by another pansy lib that has their sensibilities offended by having to acknowledge that our military uses guns.....10-4
 
Damn, I must be channeling j-mac.
So no violation, just an emotional, over reaction, by another pansy lib that has their sensibilities offended by having to acknowledge that our military uses guns.....10-4
 
Long before all this started my husband gave the kid's shirts that said "stand back 100 feet or you will be shot" in arabic. . . no way in hell was I letting them wear it to SCHOOL.

*sigh*

good call, spiker

but appreciate your husband's dark sense of humor

and nothing other than a teacher enforcing a rule in a way it was not intended/expected to be enforced

bet the kid gets to wear his shirt going forward
 
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Could someone explain me how being annoyed at a PUBLIC, tax payer funded schools dress code = not liking smaller government? Let alone being annoyed at a teacher improperly enforcing said dress code of said public tax payer funded school?
 
So no violation, just an emotional, over reaction, by another pansy lib that has their sensibilities offended by having to acknowledge that our military uses guns.....10-4

The teacher's political beleifs are not mentioned in the article, so you are just making **** up to fit your desired narrative. It could just as likely be a crackpot conservative teacher who never actually bothered to read the rules and is a stickler for following the exact letter of what they believe to be the rule, and the smart liberal superintendent pointing out that the rule is not what is claimed. We have no way of knowing based on the information given.
 
An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned.
Daniel McIntyre, 44, of Genoa, told FoxNews.com that his 14-year-old son, Michael, was asked to remove the T-shirt by eighth-grade teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday. Deverell, citing the school’s dress code, said the garment’s interlocking rifles was problematic and had to be removed from sight, McIntyre said.

Read more: Father wants school dress code changed after son asked to remove Marines T-shirt | Fox News

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I though the cons were all about following the rules and laws of society? I mean, just remove the damn shirt.

Like the cons are for smaller governemet, i guess it's just another myth.


i just love this part:

“He was upset, he couldn’t understand it,” he continued. “He couldn’t understand why a teacher would make him do that.”

LOL, playing the "VICTIM". :lol:

Cons, much like libs, believe in changing the rules when they are bad rules....
 
Could someone explain me how being annoyed at a PUBLIC, tax payer funded schools dress code = not liking smaller government?

I think the belief is that if you support any rule, such as for example in this case a dress code, then you support "big government". I swear it is happening an aweful lot lately where instead of arguing actual positions, people argue against the most extreme position they can find on the other side.
 
Well, obviously he has broken a school rule. It's not for me to determine what is wrong with the shirt.

So you just accept idiotic rules because someone tells you to? A bunch of bitties sit around a table and decide that anything that respects the country is detrimental to the moral wellbeing of the school community and you just accept it and say, hey, it's the rules, you gotta follow it. Pathetic, but I'm sure if the kid had a "Yes we Can" t-shirt on, you'd be storming the Supreme Court demanding the kid have his free speech rights protected.
 
I think the belief is that if you support any rule, such as for example in this case a dress code, then you support "big government". I swear it is happening an aweful lot lately where instead of arguing actual positions, people argue against the most extreme position they can find on the other side.

That wouldn't even make sense as an answer to his inane comment either though, since there's no indication the father was supporting the notion of a dress code. Agree on your general point though.
 
When you get right down to it, the kid had to turn his T shirt inside out for a day, then the superintendent straightened up the issue. Now Faux makes it national news and it takes over the RW blogoshpere. Oh the outrage...
 
I think the belief is that if you support any rule, such as for example in this case a dress code, then you support "big government". I swear it is happening an aweful lot lately where instead of arguing actual positions, people argue against the most extreme position they can find on the other side.

As I saw it, the father was asking for the dress code to be changed, to allow the t-shirt - perhaps, he should have asked for the dress code to be abandoned, not changed, then some wouldn't have the canard about this being big government versus small government.
 
The teacher's political beleifs are not mentioned in the article, so you are just making **** up to fit your desired narrative. It could just as likely be a crackpot conservative teacher who never actually bothered to read the rules and is a stickler for following the exact letter of what they believe to be the rule, and the smart liberal superintendent pointing out that the rule is not what is claimed. We have no way of knowing based on the information given.


BWHAAAAA! yeah that's it....hahahahaha......because the education system is so over wrought with conservatives...:lamo ....God Red...Sometimes you crack me up....:lamo
 
The T shirt was never against the dress code. A teacher misintereped it, the superintendent corrected the situation, and Faux news has another outrage.
As I saw it, the father was asking for the dress code to be changed, to allow the t-shirt - perhaps, he should have asked for the dress code to be abandoned, not changed, then some wouldn't have the canard about this being big government versus small government.
 
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