A STUDENT being asked to remove a T-shirt with a lesbian slogan has sparked a protest at a school in Melbourne's northwest. About 30 students at Strathmore Secondary College last week rallied behind Year 12 classmate Stephanie, 17, after she was told by teachers to change out of the T-shirt for school photos. Stephanie, who did not want her surname published, said she had worn a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Nobody knows I'm a lesbian" to school on several occasions without concerns being raised by staff or fellow students. "I've had it for ages," she said. But she said things changed when she wore it on school photo day, sparking concern among Year 12 co-ordinators. She was quickly asked to take the T-shirt off. "They said it was because certain parents would complain," Stephanie said. Isn't it so nice that the school is censoring the world for all those ignorant, stupid parents out there that refuse to realise that there are more than one type of sexuality? I think we should have more of this censorship! Why should I, or anybody else for that matter, ever be able to view anything even the slightest bit controversial? I mean, it might make me slightly uncomfortable! And that is just going to far! Oh, no wait, take what I just said and reverse its meaning; forgot that I'm dyslexic! Sorry about that!
I'm a lesbian, trapped in a man's body. I want that t-shirt to wear at work. Reminds me when I went to my wife's church BBQ wearing a t-shirt bearing the word Vagitarian. That was funny as hell and nobody said a thing because they simply didn't get it didn't say Vegitarian. Me eating burgers and hot-dogs should have given the game away.
Did she offer to remove the shirt completly for the picture? I mean, that certainly would have been more acceptable to the parents in question. Good on her classmates for standing up against PC.
I know it's out of context, but it's still funny. Ironically, if this happened at my school, the whole administration would applaud the T-shirt. They're going out of their way to support gay people, mentally challenged people, ESL people, and the like, while deliberately giving the real smart kids (two years of calculus in high school, college level physics, chemistry, biology, etc) the short end of every single stick they can find.
Great. Another bitter geek. Real smart kids don't need extra support. They are smart enough to make it on their own merits.
ARGH too right. /washes eyes out with bleach. She's the type to commit crime then. (see other thread about criminals = ugly)
It's not that I want special favors from the administration, I'd just like a little common courtesy. Like, say, not firing my teacher without warning two weeks before the end of school. Or, for that matter, not deliberately messing with his grade books, so nobody got anything over 89%. Also, it would have been nice if they hadn't hauled in students from his classes for a nice little torture session with the Principal, VP, etc, every time they heard a rumor, regardless of how far-fetched and implausible the rumor may have been. Am I bitter? Oh yeah. Am I biased? Absolutely. Is the school administration totally blameless, fair, above-board, and balanced? Not on your life. I really hope this is one of those 40% of mis-understood posts, as I read some rather nasty personal attacks into it.
Damn you! This is why I avoid R'ing TFA. Still, people need to learn some freakin' tolerance. I don't care if you agree with me or not, either deal with it or go away, not complain because your feeble mind is too sensitive.
They sound like real a-holes who have it in for a particular teacher, but I fail to see how this relates to certain minority student groups receiving preferential treatment over "the really smart kids" (some of which, I'm sure, also fall into a few minortity groups --you can have really smart gay students, for instance). No, just stating a fact based on personal experience. Life is unfair. One particular way of many in which life is really unfair, is the fact that people like you and I are really smart while other people are really dumb. As such we are more likely to succeed in life, get good jobs, earn good money, have good health and a good standard of living, solve daily life problems and conflict effectively, defend our rights successfully and have nobody walk over us, than dumb people are. Through no fault of their own, and no merit of our own. We just happened to draw the long straw of intelligence; they happened to draw the short straw of dumbness. Such is life. So count your lucky stars, and be grateful that no matter how short-changed you feel by your educational system, you have the brains to do something about it. The price of being smart is that you have to be smart. Life's unfair like that too.
And the price of being really dumb in this country is getting paid to sit at home - financed courtesy of smart people of course.
If it seems such an attractive lifestyle to you, there is nothing to stop you joining them. Choose sitting in a sink-estate flat all day, after day, after day. Choose making every f***ing penny count. Choose being looked down on by every self-righteous member of society. Choose shorter life expectancy and knowing that you have nothing to look forward to, ever. Ever. Choose that, and you can stop your moaning already. What part of "life is unfair" didn't you quite understand anyway?
Schools are generally worried about seeming not good enough in front of parents, I think it gets a little silly personally, but anywhow thread seems to have gone on a tangent about smart kids and dumb kids, dunno if youve noticed but theres programmes such as gifted and talented for smart kids, and extra help for dumb kids, but most in the middle are left to fend. However, personally believe you can do well at school without help whether your smart dumb or inbetween, theres enough resources out there to learn on your own, books, tv, internet, going and talking to people, you learn a lot more by fending for yourself than going for support, and people who do learn tend to be better off later on when you go to uni for example you a generally left to fend for yourself as in the workplace and so on...
