Court Lets Schools Ban Inflammatory T-Shirts

This is a positive step forward. As any parent and reasoning adult knows, children, even teenagers, are inexperienced in life, have immature judgement, are easily swayed by emotional appeals (as are many adults!), and heavily influenced by their peer groups. The subject of homosexuality is a hot-button item for many people, and persecution escalating to violence is common on many school grounds and in public. It is unwise to instigate more anti- feelings and attitudes toward any minority group.

Some of the terrible crimes against people perceived as homosexuals have been committed by teeners and individuals in their early 20s, not far from their teen years. Lives have been taken and lives ruined by these actions. Adults and authority figures need to take every necessary step to prevent such tragedies and to protect both victims and perpetrators from destruction of their lives.

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Court Lets Schools Ban Inflammatory T-Shirts
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A federal appeals panel rules that an anti-gay slogan sported by a San Diego-area high school student interfered with others' right to learn.

By Henry Weinstein
Times Staff Writer

April 21 2006

Schools in the Western United States can forbid a high school student to wear a T-shirt with a slogan that denigrates gay and lesbian students, a sharply divided federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday.

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