Comments on: Hays HS Senior Shirt

By: genesis

genesis — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:33:48 +0000

the principle of the school shouldn’t have made such a big deal about it. instead he should have found a way to improve the school and maybe ask the seniors why they chose that for their shirt. he should have taken a postive turn on the situation and just asked them what the shirt meant to each student. then he could take the criticism and improve the school. the kids have a right to let the school know thier opinion and they chose their senior shirt to do it. they weren’t violating any of the established dress codes and they weren’t disrupting the learning enviroment.

By: Yesica

Yesica — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:21:13 +0000

Having freedom of speech is what we are said to have, but in reality there are boundaries and regulations that we have to respect. Obviously the shirt makes the school and organization of HHS look bad, so the Principal had to do something about it. I don’t think that he took away the freedom of speech of the senior students simply because the underlying meaning of the shirt violated dress code. For example; in the real world someone that works in McDonalds will not be able to wear a shirt that says “McDonalds sucks!” when he is working because it is a dress code violation. Even though the shirt might be funny, it is more disrespectful.

By: ROMO

ROMO — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:35:48 +0000

I don’t think that their is any problem in wearing the shirt. Like everyone has said, it takes away the freedom of speech. Also its not showing anything that has to deal with drugs, alcohol, or sex. Like Julielanelle said, their wasn’t a disturbance until the principal starting to take away the shirts from the kids.

By: SaraSorenson

SaraSorenson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:39:49 +0000

The Principal is taking away from there freedom of speech. The shirts may not be reflecting what the school would want but they do not have anything offensive on them or anything that would “disrupt the learning environment,” so the school district should support the students right to wear the shirts. The removal of the shirts make a bigger deal of the shirts than they actually need to be. According to what was decided with both the Tinker and the Bethel cases the students should be allowed to wear the shirts because they are speaking out that senior year isn’t what it is cracked up to be and I think every senior can relate to that.

By: busche916

busche916 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:36:42 +0000

I don’t think the shirt is a great shirt to wear, but I’m sure the school deals with much worse when it comes to dress code violations. I know the school is only taking action because it bears their name, but the shirt isn’t really that offensive and it seems more like a joke than an attack on our “american educational values”, or anything like that. Kids have a right to express themselves