Evolution T-Shirts Banned for High School Marching Band

[litlady]

SEDALIA, Mo. -- The Smith-Cotton High School marching band is in the national spotlight but not because of the tunes it plays on the football field.

The band has drawn attention because of a T-shirt design that has angered some parents.

Band members KCTV5's Matt Stewart talked to on Monday wondered what all the fuss was about.

"I didn't think it would be that big of a deal," said senior Nick Decker. "It's just a shirt."

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Yup, people worry me sometimes.

[BlooInBloo]

1. It's long been known that facts have no place in church...

Pity they no longer have a place in school.

[boobooday]

2. OMG

How stupid. People need to not bow to the idiots.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. The ban won't be sustained in federal court.

First Amendment: Establishment Clause, Free Speech Clause, Free Assembly Clause in a public school

[Posteritatis]

4. The school will just declare it "disruptive" anyway. (nt)

[Hepburn]

5. I agree....

....the school cannot ban the shirts. The school may not be allowed to REQUIRE a member of a certain group wear the shirt if it offends a religious belief, but they cannot dictate to others who are not offended that they may not use the shirt.

JMHO

[litlady]

12. Agreed that they can't regulate this in a public school but the school is bowing anyway...

It has become a disruption - because even jokes that touch on facts are too much!

[Mopar151]

6. Facts are evil?

One of these days, somebody needs to have a long talk with the members of the school board.....
'specially 'cuz it sounds like a cool shirt design.

[kelly1mm]

7. It is not that the fact of evolution is evil - it is that it may be disruptive

to education (the new test for free speech in school - which I disagree with BTW). It shouldn't be but if the fundie students raise holy hell about it then it could disrupt education. It would be the same thing it a student wore a shirt that said "all the 9/11 hijackers were muslims". Factually correct but could be disruptive in schools with muslim students. Again, I would allow both if I were king.

[slackmaster]

8. Imagine the disruption if they had used a periodic table of the elements

:crazy:

[Moochy]

9. Idiocracy Comes

Get the Heretic with the monkey-man shirt! Arrest him for his shirt offendeth! I Aint Got no monkeys in Mah Family Tree!!!1111

[Mopar151]

11. Part of the problem

is that slippery slope from "I ain't no monkey" to "Christian Identity" (aka white supremacy).

Me, im good with cousin Go-Go and Aunt Cheetah - it's that no good Pastor Cletus I got my eye on.....

[dhill926]

10. and every time someone gives in.......

to these whack jobs, the more they're vindicated. Tell them to pull their poor fucking kids out of band if they don't like the shirt......

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. Bad Judgment by the Band Director

This was foreseeable and should not have happened. In public education, you have to walk a fine line and offend no one. It comes with the turf. A pig for a mascot would not sit will with muslims.

I did not bother to look up the school dress code, but if it allows t-shirts with graphics, you can bet there will be evolution shirts worn for the next few years.