Student says he was sent home for wearing Colts jersey in Louisiana classroom

I'm gonnna have to ask you to come in on Saturday.

 

The kid was wrong. Either you wear B&G or the regular uniform. However, if he was the only kid who broke that day's amended dress code, the principal should have turned it into a positive. Just poke some harmless fun at the kid and let it be. If more than one person did it, it's an issue. But one? Meh. You can let that slide, I think.

 

But in the world of common sense and mature adult thinking this wouldn't have been an issue of a kid wearing "whatever he wanted" and a mature adult with common sense would say to himself or herself "we're letting others wear their Saints stuff for the Super Bowl, this kid is from Indy and so it is OK he wears his Colts colors for the Super Bowl as well...."

It isn't like the kid was wearing purple or green or some random color scheme or some rebellious heavy metal band shirt just to say "fuck you" -- he was wearing a shirt in honor of the Super Bowl, which made him no different than any other student.

It is idiotic that anyone would even try to argue otherwise or defend the idiots who run this school.

 

Well, it's good that the kid's parents taught him to deal with it the right way: Do what you want anyway, make a big stink when it doesn't work out, and let your parents call the media on your behalf.

Because once he gets out of high school, he'll probably never have to deal with someone in authority over him making a stupid decision he doesn't like.

 

The principal should have had a sense of humor about the thing. No doubt about it. Badly handled all the way around.

But the kid was out of line, too. He asked. He was told no. He did it anyway. He basically asked to be punished.

Edit: Gotta agree with RickStain on this one.

 

Yep, the kid probably thought it was really cool that his new hometown was playing his old one in the Super Bowl. And then Principal Putty pissed all over him about it, because, "Gotta support the team."

 

Yes, that is what we are saying Rick. :

Or maybe, just maybe, we are saying the principal exhibited the kind of idiocy that too many people in authority in this country have displayed, which is why we are broke, the economy is in the shitter and we're involved in an idiotic war.

And this country was founded by a bunch of guys who fought and won over idiotic authorative figures......

This was supposed to be a fun thing for the kids, not life or death, and it was a one-day situation.

The principal is a self-important douche.

 

I didn't say that's what you are saying.

 

It's sports. Fans are the worst thing about them.

 

So the kid should have just kept his mouth shut and followed orders?

No matter how stupid the orders were. Yep, nothing's ever gone wrong in history with that philosophy.

It's the system. You have to live with it and obey orders. No matter how wrong or corrupt the system is.

Kid was told no because the principal is a biased bully. Kid went to his parents. Of course they're going to defend him, especially when he's right.

The school should have just kept the school uniform. They decided to set a precedent of jerseys, and got upset because someone didn't agree with their beliefs.

 

No. You take a stand when it's worthwhile to make a stand. This wasn't one of those times.

Making a stand every little time your precious child's feelings are hurt or things aren't completely fair to him is how we ended up with a nation of spoiled, overly self-important people with entitlement complexes.

 

I think it is absolutely impossible for any of us to decide where on the continuum this spat falls without a hell of a lot more context about the situation and the combatants.

At this point people are just projecting.