Students Sent Home Over 'Devil' Shirts

Students Sent Home Over 'Devil' Shirts
Clothes Say 'Islam Is Of The Devil'

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A school district lawyer said a handful of students have been sent home from Alachua County schools this week because the shirts they wore might have offended or distracted other pupils or disrupted the learning process.

School district staff attorney Tom Wittmer said the shirts that read "Islam is of the Devil" violated the district's dress code.

The shirts are connected to a local church called the Dove World Outreach Center. A church member told The Gainesville Sun that he ordered them online.

The congregation said a 10-year-old elementary school student was sent home Monday because of the shirt. Three high school students were sent home Tuesday and a middle school student also had to change clothes.

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"Dove World Outreach Center
Is of the Assholes"

Clothing like that has no place in a public school. If they want to wear that fascist shit, they can go to one of their private madrassas and do it on their own dime.

of what the Dove is a symbol of? Being a church, probably not.

More like battle crows than doves.

wide latitude when it comes to restricting First Amendment rights.

not.

in past, parent had a pretty good idea of what was offensive and not allowing their children to wear.

You think more people would have figured this out over the last 40 years. Apparently not.

the peer pressure, influence from other kids, they all do it.

bullshit

my parents had it with us

i have it with mine

and done with respect

because much more than that and they end up in court. Its about the only way to keep it fair. If you allow black power and gay pride you have to allow white power and straight pride.

I don't care if it's Islam, a heavy metal band reading "metal up your ass tour" (complete with amusing picture of a dagger-wielding fist coming up out of a toilet)... or anything else.

Then people wonder why there are problems IN the schools. No discipline. It's not all about the teachers, whose ability to perform is sometimes constrained.

I'm amazed these brats were sent home!

SCHOOL UNIFORMS, NOW. Put back discipline.

All options should be on the table, or so the catchphrase goes. :)

if school, especially high school, is supposed to prepare us for the real world, maybe something basic like, no religious shirts, no pornography, no tears above the thigh in jeans, no skirts less than 6" long, etc.

Offer an acceptable alternative. or if a dress code is absolutely necessary, then have a possibility of getting clothes from teh school or a some what open policy so that as long as its' close, the students can get more affordable clothes from a 2nd hand store... or something?

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