MISD Meeting - My "take"
Q.Body jewelry is another thing on the list of banned items, except for standard earlobe piercings. Their reasoning? "Safety." This despite the fact that it is a whole lot harder to tear out a nostril piercing than it is an earlobe piercing. They will not allow "plugs", which are flush with the skin, either...how that validates their "safety" issue I do not know, because these are much less likely to be torn out. Guess they never saw Dennis Rodman play a basketball game. Tongue piercings are not allowed for distraction reasons (the "clicking" commonly heard, as well as some speech impediment on the part of some). If you have a non-visible tongue piercing, though, and you don't "click" it, you'll be left alone, apparently. They did admit they will not be doing body searches.
A.Among the most notable McKinney community speakers was a teenage girl named Shauna Davis, who stated that her pentacle was a symbol of her religion and that she would not be forced to remove it by anyone, even if they should file suit against her. Another young man, wearing a T-shirt displaying a Celtic cross encircled by a dragon, challenged the chairs of the meeting to tell him whether his T-shirt would be considered acceptable. Dr. Anthony squinted at the image on the shirt, stated that he could not see it, and the young man moved progressively closer to the stage until he stood directly before Dr. Anthony. After regarding the image for 30 seconds or more, Dr. Anthony nodded that the image would be considered acceptable, since no "disruptive behavior" had yet been associated with the cross or with dragons. Next, the young man's father addressed the chair, stating that his son had illustrated the problems associated with determining whether or not the images on T-shirts, the symbology of jewelry, or the content of a tattoo, would be considered acceptable. It had taken the entirety of the young man's two-minute hearing to determine whether his T-shirt displayed acceptable content. Adminstrator's would be spending the entirety of their days determining the acceptability of student's modes of self-expression, as they said, on a "case-by-case basis." It would be necessary, it seemed, for students to wear badges describing which of their tattoos or items of jewelry had been accepted by the administration. These badges would, it seems, also need to state whether the students' religious beliefs had been judged to be "sincerely held."
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