Strange, 2 of my teachers this year wanted us to question them, and all of them last year did:
"How will you ever learn if you don't question things that don't make sense?"
or
"Scientists make discoveries by rebelling against the known facts. You should try it."

At my school visitors are allowed to eat. They just have to leave their keys/drivers liscense/etc and get a pass and when you bring it back you get your stuff back.

Heh, shoe polish washes off really easy.

Plus, you missed what the protest was about. The protest was for group punishment. The school decided to punish an entire class if one person didn't have their ID card. The protest didn't happen because of uniform. That IS wrong.

If my old highschool had decided to do uniforms, I'd honestly have transferred to Shawnee Mission North or West, schools MUCH worse than the one I went to. I'd sacrifice a superior education for the ability to wear my own clothing.

On top of that, facial piercings do not, and should not bar you from having a real job. Why? Because you can put plugs into the piercings. My recruiter, YES, MY AIR FORCE RECRUITER, has a nose piercing, and he is a staff sergeant. I think we can call being an air force recruiter a real career. If you are stupid enough to leave your piercings in at work, or during an interview, well, you don't deserve the job. There are ways around it.

And as for being stupid getting said piercings, I don't agree. I personally think people decorate their bodies because they like it. I know a lot of people get tattoos, piercings, tissue scarring, etc. just so they will get attention, but those aren't the norm, those are the outliers. Most people, in my mind, get piercings, body and facial, because THEY like how they look. Why would anyone get a piercing, or tattoo that they thought at the time was ugly?

Most schools in poor urban areas do not enforce uniform. A lot of schools in rich suburban areas do enforce uniform. I don't see many rich white gangs rolling around the suburbs, do you? I mean, my area has the occasional meth lab, but that's the worst it gets.

And on a final note, the school had more or less disrupted their own educational environment by taking time out of the day to line everybody up and check for their ID cards. Can yo uimagine the time it would take to make sure EVERYONE had their ID card, then everyone in the class to be written up?

Sariat was very much right in this case.

When you take out the piercing in most cases, the hole will not easily be visible. Plus, as I've said above, plugs make most piercings seem to vanish.

Now, as for gagued ears, that is a harder issue to talk about. Can you imagine someone who has gagued out to 1" trying to comply with that dress code?

Sweet, I guess since children have no rights I can kill them freely... I love this country! ^_^

Whose, not who's. Does "Who is idea was this in the first place?" make sense? No. WHOSE.

You know schools lose funding if they lose too many students. All the volleyball team had to do was stick with it. Had they used their heads, they could have won. All it takes is twenty or thirty dedicated individuals to be expelled, and the school will back down and issue a formal apology.

My highschool suffered nearly the same problem. The girls' locker room was very much inferior to the boys'. The boys' locker room had both a team, and standard locker room. The girls, however, did not have a team locker room, and girls had to go around the school to enter the wrestling room, because it was located behind the team locker room. This was wrong.

About ten girls formed a formal protest, didn't even bother to tell any guys. ALL of them were promptly suspended for "truancy", and causing a public disturbance. The next day, I, and about fifteen girls, and about six other guys protested. We were not suspended, we were all given in-house detentions. I told everyone to skip those detentions. They suspended everyone who did. The next day, about fifty people protested, and the district got wind of it, and did nothing. The NEXT day, someone organized a walk-out, and then the district decided to do something. They unsuspended all of us, issued formal apologies to everyone who had been suspended, and then claimed it would be fixed the following summer.

To this day, the situation remains. They did nothing. All they wanted to do was end the situation. With one hand they appeased us, and with the other, they stabbed us in the back...

If this were to be brought up in court, we could have won, seeing as the locker room situation is in violation of constitutional law.

If everyone went with what was wrong in the world, it'd be a pretty piss-poor place to live. America wouldn't exist, and everyone on the face of the earth would be worse off because of dictatorships, imperialism, nuclear war, and slavery. Gotta love sitting back and doing nothing!

That would be cool, but... they do have rights, people just don't like to admit it.

I am 18 and my own legal gardian, there is nothing they can say about it. They did, however, refuse to give me a parking pass (for MY car, that I own, and is in MY name) without my mothers permission. I was very angry about that. I am an adult and should be granted all the rights of one.

Age of majority in Canada is 19. I don't know about in the United States, but in Canada, you're also only a legal adult if you aren't registered as anyone's dependent (i.e. you don't have a parent/guardian listed anywhere).

Jamesburrow wrote:

Oh yes, the perfect NCLB laws. The only thing i like about it is I can change schools easily by saying the school I'm in doesn't "challenge" me enough, which is believable since mothe Duke and Vanderbilt are looking at me and I'm in the 8th grade. Also, you got it wrong, you have to be at least 16 to drop out,grade has nothing to do with it.

You're full of ****, Universities don't look at people in 8th grade, period.

Also, Duke is overrated, and the only way they'd ever 'look' at you, is if you're kicking some major ass in a sport for 4 years of highschool.