This post is in response to Lissa’s post entitled “Freedom of Speech or Just a Case of Senioritis.” Lissa, good post, I understand where you are coming from, and also agree with a sum of what you said. Personally, I don’t think that the t-shirt is that big of a deal, it’s not that big of a distraction, and could have said something a lot worse. The whole t-shirt said “HHS seniors 2010” on the front, and the “well that sucked” was on the back. Come on… that’s a little amusing.
What the school faculty doesn’t realize is that pulling students out of class is more of a distraction than the t-shirts themselves. They are just angry that a student expressed himself in a way that made the school look bad. And what students don’t realize is that when they are in the public school system they don’t have any rights. Remember, school districts are their own little governing bodies, and they make the rules. If a student/parent doesn’t like the rules…. Tuff! If a parent of one of the student’s doesn’t like it they can take it up with the school board, and that’s about it. The only place that democracy shows up in the school district is when someone runs for the school board.
The only problem I had with your post is the last sentence. “Adam’s is a direct representation of today’s adolescent and young adults who have taken the constitutional meaning of “liberties” to the extreme; resulting in a moral, educational, and cultural declination.” First, “extreme” was a poor choice of words, yes he pushed some buttons, but did anyone get hurt? No, besides some of the faculty’s feelings, he is just being a teenager. Second, “resulting in a moral, educational, and cultural declination” Education has been on the decline for some time now, it was going down the shitter when we were in high school. But morals, and culture are not declining….they are just changing. Our grandparents thought the same thing about our generation; do you think that they were right? That’s what happens, throughout the course of history, when times change older generations think it’s always declining, and it’s not declining, just changing.
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