Student's 'Duck Dynasty' Shirt Too Violent For School?

[The Straight Story]

One Virginia mother was outraged when her son got in trouble at school for wearing a "Duck Dynasty" shirt featuring a popular line from the show.

Edna-Jo Spain claims a teacher at Dinwiddie High School deemed the shirt too violent and told Spain's son, Hunter, to either "turn it inside out" or go home, according to local outlet WWBT. The shirt's slogan read, "I will hurt you physically and metaphysically."

The A&E reality show, which follows the Southern, Christian, duck-hunting Roberston family, is famous for gag lines similar to the one on Hunter's shirt.

Superintendent David Clark defended the school's decision in an email to WWBT, writing, in part, &quot I)f you haven't watched (the show) you may question if the shirt implies violence."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/duck-dynasty-shirt-violent_n_3962998.html

[Posteritatis]

1. Oh, FFS. (nt)

[snooper2]

2. "Dinwiddie" High School?

I see that's the name of the town

cute school once you get the 404 errors to clear on the site-

[L0oniX]

13. Looks like a military bunker ...maybe it should be.

[Dr. Strange]

3. College professors can get in trouble too.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111227/15534717208/how-firefly-fans-made-one-universitys-campus-safe-free-speech.shtml

[joeybee12]

4. That Virginia mother should be outraged that her kid is so phucking stupid...

...that he likes that show.

[MicaelS]

5. Kids do stuff all the time to annoy

Pompous, arrogant and self-righteous adults.

Looks like it worked this time. More than once.

[Eleanors38]

6. Seems to work in DU as well.

[HappyMe]

10. lol!

It must be Super Smug Day at DU today.

[joeybee12]

7. Seems to me the Mom likes the show, too...

Because she can't understand the fuss over the t-shirt. Or, she can't read and didn't know what it said!

[L0oniX]

15. ...like this...

[Eleanors38]

8. The gun control "debate" has now devolved to culture war against kids. Ironic.

[backscatter712]

9. Granted, just ads for that show make my brains leak out of my ears.

But what is it about fascist teachers and school administrators that make them completely fail to understand the concept of free speech?

[Posteritatis]

14. I highly doubt the teachers have much of a say in policies like this

Meanwhile, administrators either think freedom of speech doesn't apply to students - they, and anyone who agrees with them, are objectively wrong according to decades of legal precedent - or just cower behind the "disruptive" carte blanche, which administrators always define as "anything I dislike, regardless of whether it's disrupting anything."

[HappyMe]

11. Oy.

What about the children!!11!

[L0oniX]

12. What ever happened to "Under achiever and proud of it"

I remember kids being sent home because of this shirt.

[Nine]

16. Is it necessary for parents to run to the media over every little disagreement with a school? (nt)

[darkangel218]

17. I just wish all this duck dynasty thing will go away.

I loathe that show, and everything related to it.

And the teachers did the right thing, the writing on the tee was provocative and over the top.

[Francois Jeopardy]

18. here here

[darkangel218]

19. .