Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Students have to buy new wardrobes because school officials assume certain types of clothing are causing racial controversy. Recently the school board has banned the following; Iron crosses and Old English style font on clothes, and wearing of gloves. Students should be able to wear what ever they choose to. We are talking about teenagers here I think they know how to properly dress themselves. The abolishment of these items is completely ridiculous.
Banning the iron cross on clothing was the wrong thing to do. The iron cross, also identified as the multeace cross, when seen on clothing people assume that the student might be bad or up to no good. In fact, the people making the judgments of students for the types of clothing they wear could in fact themselves be the prejudicial ones. For some students most or all clothing they own contains these displays, or logos. Some families can't afford to just go out and purchase a whole new wardrobe for their kids...