Freedom? Where?
Apr. 29th, 2008 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyStudents at an Oregon High School are being forced to shave their eyebrows off due to a concern that they are making eyebrow marks as gang symbols:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080429/D90BGIG00.html
Once again, we see personal liberty under attack for the benefit of so-called "school discipline." What kind of sense does this make? I can say that I'm in MS 13, everyone can know that I'm in MS 13, I can attend after school gang bangs with MS 13, but I can't shave my eyebrows to look like 1 and 3 in Roman Numerals? Does anyone really think that all of the window dressing in the public schools to keep of the appearance of safety and a happy violence free culture actually makes anyone safer?
Personally, I think this is just yet another step down the road to the complete national socialization of the public schools system: this is what you can wear, this is what you can say, this is how you can groom yourself, these are the surgeries you must have, this is what you must think... Long live the NEA! Heil Weaver?
I'm done trading liberty for security. The last thing I want to do is teach my kid to trade hers.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080429/D90BGIG00.html
Once again, we see personal liberty under attack for the benefit of so-called "school discipline." What kind of sense does this make? I can say that I'm in MS 13, everyone can know that I'm in MS 13, I can attend after school gang bangs with MS 13, but I can't shave my eyebrows to look like 1 and 3 in Roman Numerals? Does anyone really think that all of the window dressing in the public schools to keep of the appearance of safety and a happy violence free culture actually makes anyone safer?
Personally, I think this is just yet another step down the road to the complete national socialization of the public schools system: this is what you can wear, this is what you can say, this is how you can groom yourself, these are the surgeries you must have, this is what you must think... Long live the NEA! Heil Weaver?
I'm done trading liberty for security. The last thing I want to do is teach my kid to trade hers.
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Date: 2008-04-29 10:03 pm (UTC)WTF? Over.
Date: 2008-04-29 10:05 pm (UTC)Assholes.
And tomorrow you won't be able to wear blue on Tuesdays...