Boy punished for T-shirt with gun image

[White Israelite]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_us/t_shirt_gun

But an attorney for the school district said school must create a safe environment for students in the post-Columbine era, and bringing even the image of a gun to school violates the district's policy.

"There's a much higher level of sensitivity these days," Penn Manor attorney Kevin French said. "But it's based on reality."

[newman]

Would such a ban on mere 'images' that cannot be legally defined as obsene or offensive ever stand up in court?

[MassuhDGoodName]

Re:  "...Would such a ban on mere 'images' that cannot be legally defined as obsene or offensive ever stand up in court?..."

Usually students who are minors are not considered to have full adult rights...the institution in which the minor is enrolled is viewed as having rights to enforce discipline and order which supercede the rights of students.

[newman]

Re:  "...Would such a ban on mere 'images' that cannot be legally defined as obsene or offensive ever stand up in court?..."

Usually students who are minors are not considered to have full adult rights...the institution in which the minor is enrolled is viewed as having rights to enforce discipline and order which supercede the rights of students.

What if the parents claimed guns were part of their 'ethnic culture' (as white, colonial Americans) & demanding to remove an image of one was offensive to them?

I bet that would throw a spanner in the works.