Unless it's a Pearl necklace. :) Dana wrote: > true... and children are subject to all sort of limitations as to the > clothes *they* can wear to school. While I think that some > restrictions are necessary (see-through blouses and gang colors come > to mind) a number of schools I have dealt with had some really silly > restrictions. Pink frilly dresses were not ok at age five because red > is a gang color? Come on :) The boy can't dye his hair green? Why not? > > Still, to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a necklace is only a necklace. > > Dana > > On 6/28/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>One case comes to my mind. A public school teacher wore a >>>gold cross around her neck. Just a little necklace. >> >>>A child complained that it was offensive (we won't discuss >>>the silliness of this assertion). The ACLU came swooping >>>in on the side of the CHILD. This really bothered me, as >>>I see the teacher's right to wear a small, personal >>>sign of her faith, as an important right. >> >>>If she was using the cross to preach her religion to the >>>class, or was wearing an inappropriate religious message >>>of some ilk, I might understand....but this just seemed >>>stupid to me. >> >>Unless all religious messages are inappropriate then there's no such >>thing as an inappropriate religious message. In a private school, I >>would be in favor of the teacher, since the parents have some choice >>in determining where their chidren attend... In a public school, just >>as with cops, I believe they need to take off the religious symbols >>while they're on the job. Jobs tell people to take out tongue, lip, >>nose and eyebrow rings all the time, which is trivial, so I don't >>think it's beyond the pale to ask a public servant to act as though >>they're serving the public and not just those members of the public >>who happen to agree with their particular religious inclinations. >> >> >>s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 >>new epoch : isn't it time for a change? >> >>add features without fixtures with >>the onTap open source framework >> >>http://www.fusiontap.com >>http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm >> >> >> >> >> > > >
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