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school band T-shirt is pulled

Should this band T-shirt have been pulled?


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I am offended by all school shirts containing any numbers or mathematical signs on them. My religion denies the existence of math. I fully expect all schools to comply with my wishes and stop making these shirts.
 
Dumb? Yes. But a teacher not wanting something associated with schools that is entirely associated with schools to begin with just reeks of irony. Her discipline is irrelevant; as a teacher, she knows better. Rather, she should know better (she's a teacher, after all). Hence, the nice thick slice of irony that she choked on in my hypothetical example.

If it were associated with schools that much this wouldn't be an issue at all. She can have whatever opinions she likes about the issue. But if she were someone that was trained in it then I could see. This isn't really irony.
 
If somebody wants to sell a shirt that says "LOL, 9/11!" with a picture of Obama pulling a swastika out of a raccoon's ass, I don't think anything should stand in their way.

That would just be hilarious. You should CafePress that. :lol:
 
If it were associated with schools that much this wouldn't be an issue at all. She can have whatever opinions she likes about the issue. But if she were someone that was trained in it then I could see. This isn't really irony.

Actually it is. You learn about the theory of Evolution in school, so the subject is associated closely with that institution. A teacher - any teacher - knows that it is taught there in a biology class, in the same way that math is taught in math class, history in history class, etc. For a teacher to believe that something entirely associated with the institution to begin with should not be associated with it, that's pure, unadulterated irony. That's like a teacher not wanting a school to be associated with the theory of gravity, or European history. The teacher's discipline is irrelevant. He/she is a teacher, and knows better. Or rather, they should know better. Hence, my example is textbook irony.
 
I agree with everything you posted. It's different when a school is selling an item that the parents deem offensive, though. If somebody wants to sell a shirt that says "LOL, 9/11!" with a picture of Obama pulling a swastika out of a raccoon's ass, I don't think anything should stand in their way. I just don't think it's appropriate for a school to be producing.

If the parents find something a school produces offensive the school doesn't have to pull it, but if they do I don't have a problem with that decision.

I doubt that anyone would stand in their way. That is an example that no doubt the majority would find offensive and because of that would be deemed as appropriate for removal. But this is not the case with this school band shirt. It was a few people that didn't like it. Not the majority.
 
I doubt that anyone would stand in their way. That is an example that no doubt the majority would find offensive and because of that would be deemed as appropriate for removal. But this is not the case with this school band shirt. It was a few people that didn't like it. Not the majority.

How do you know how many people complained, far less how many were offended?

Do you really think that a majority off all parents in the school district need to be offended by something the school is producing before officials consider pulling said item?
 
How do you know how many people complained, far less how many were offended?

Honestly I don't know how many. But I would bet $100 that it wasn't the majority, or even close to a majority. I've often found that only the extremist religious types complain about evolution like has been done with these shirts. The rest are normally either indifferent or to lazy to complain or like it. One more reason that I think that it wasn't the majority is that Pollitt said "several" if it had been the majority he more than likely would have just said "a lot".

Do you really think that a majority off all parents in the school district need to be offended by something the school is producing before officials consider pulling said item?

Yes.
 
I can understand why this may upset a really religious parent. So yep they have every right to be upset and call for it being pulled.
 
So what if it's offensive to some people. I'm sure that some people consider Mardi Gras to be offensive. Is that ever stopped though? I'm also pretty sure that two men having sex is offensive to some people also. Should we stop that also?

Point being is that just because some may find it offensive doesn't mean that it should be stopped. Read my second sig line. ;)

Apples and Oranges. ;)
 
That's kinda dangerous, don't you think? Thumpers attract worms, and having the band remove their suits leaves them at the mercy of the desert of Arrakis. They'd be dead in a matter of hours if the worms didn't get them first.

Oh wait...I think I read your post wrong!

I was just trying to bring a little, ummmm, "spice" to the discussion.
 
Apples and Oranges. ;)

Not really. What if students started wearing shirts that said "The gay lifestyle is for me!"? Do you think that they wouldn't be offended and demand its removal?
 
I can understand why this may upset a really religious parent. So yep they have every right to be upset and call for it being pulled.

Oh they definitely have that right. BUT, they don't have the right to be listened to and obeyed.
 
I wasn't aware that anybody was saying they did it knowing they would offend people. It did, however, and I fully support a school district pulling a shirt of theirs that parents find offensive.

Yeah, that's about where I am on the subject too. It was clever and cute, but then someone could have just as easily created a shirt that was clever and cute that supported creationism. There would have been objections over that too, I'm sure. This is a hot topic and the school reacted in a diplomatic manner.
 
Has anyone seen the movie Jesus Camp? It was set in Missouri. I grew up in this area of the country, in a small town, and it was precisely this backward ass.
 
Schools are utter cowards when it comes to stuff like this. You could get them to pull a picture of literally anything if 5 parents complained loudly enough. It certainly is annoying that a shirt depicting a educational topic is "offensive" enough to remove, but it could have been a picture of a tuba alone and it still would have been pulled. The superintendent is simply trying to cover his ass, by pretending its some kind of sensitive issue.
 
What do you think of this issue. Are the parents who wanted the shirt pulled right or are them making a big deal out of nothing?

Wow....some people are horribly stupid. I can imagine who was the type to have complained against the shirt in the first place.
 
Wow....some people are horribly stupid. I can imagine who was the type to have complained against the shirt in the first place.

Let me give you a hint. They're the same people who also support torture. They'd like us to go back to the "good old days" when the world was flat and burning people at the stake for heresy was Friday Night entertainment.
 
i think your poll questions are misleading. my take is that science is not offensive. but that's just me......
 
this is kind of ironic to me because our band just got shirts for the first time
 
would you wear the "evolution" shirts?
 
would you wear the "evolution" shirts?

no way in a million years just like I wont read or watch the devenche code because it is condoning it
 
no way in a million years just like I wont read or watch the devenche code because it is condoning it

It might do you good to read the Da Vinci Code. You might learn, at the least, to spell Leonardo Da Vinci's name.

And, it is your considered opinion that The Da Vinci Code condones EVOLUTION?

:rofl
 
The parents, I am sure a minority, overreacted and because the lunatics were so loud the school pulled the shirts. That is the way it goes. If the people on the otherside of the aisle would stand-up and tell the minority to shutup and the shirts were still pulled, then I would see a travesty. The problem is those in support of reason seldom speak-up.
 
It might do you good to read the Da Vinci Code. You might learn, at the least, to spell Leonardo Da Vinci's name.

And, it is your considered opinion that The Da Vinci Code condones EVOLUTION?

:rofl

sorry about the spelling I have never been very good at it but I know that the Da Vinci code has nothing to do with evolution I am just saying that it goes in opposition to what I believe
 
sorry about the spelling I have never been very good at it but I know that the Da Vinci code has nothing to do with evolution I am just saying that it goes in opposition to what I believe

why are you so afraid to have your beliefs challenged?
are they so frail, they would crumble.........because of a movie?
a FICTIONAL movie????:shock:
 
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