Our educators at work: Dissent in any way will not be tolerated
At least this annoying kid wasn’t wearing a stinking Cardinal’s uniform:
A Louisiana high school student says he was sent home for wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey Friday – the day the principal encouraged students to wear New Orleans Saints black and gold as the teams get ready to face off in the Super Bowl.
“If they tell other students to support their team, why can’t I support mine?” Brandon Frost, 17, told The Associated Press. The senior at Maurepas High School moved three years ago from Indianapolis to the rural town 30 miles from Baton Rouge.
A Livingston Parish School Board member said Frost wasn’t sent home, but was told he couldn’t wear the blue jersey at school. Keith Martin, whose district includes Maurepas, said the school uniform had been relaxed only for black and gold.
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High schools are bastions of small-minded functionaries. They were even in the late '60s and early '70s when I was there. I can count the number of good teachers I had in high school on three fingers.
The situation has been made worse by paranoia sparked by school shootings, 9/11, and anti-drug hysteria. The best thing students can do about high school is get the hell out as soon as possible.
OK–I don't like the decision that was made, but it's a private school with a uniform. They knew that when they signed up for it. And when it's said "you can wear black and gold tomorrow instead of your uniform if you want," he was free to show up in his uniform instead of supporting the Saints.
If this was a taxpayer funded school it would be one thing, but let's not blow the issue out of proportion. His parents are now free to say "we're not going to pay tuition next semester" and put him in another school. Just try to do that with your school tax bill.
It's a public school:
http://www.lpsb.org/District/schools.htm
In Louisiana, what we call "counties" they call "parishes". They're units of government. And lots of public schools are opting for uniforms these days.