Family prepares to sue school that prohibited 12-year-old from wearing ‘two genders’ shirt

[Michie]

A family attorney for 12-year-old Liam argues he was censored because of his 'political and cultural viewpoint.' One commentator has more directly pointed out that he was merely 'conveying factually accurate information.'

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Massachusetts (LifeSiteNews) — The family of a 12-year-old boy is preparing to sue his Massachusetts public school for violating his First Amendment rights by forbidding him from wearing a shirt that says “There are only two genders.”

Seventh-grader Liam Morrison recounted during an April 13 school committee meeting how two Nichols Middle School staff members removed him from gym class to tell him he needed to change his shirt in order to be allowed back in class.

“I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt, that my shirt was making some students feel unsafe. Yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe. They told me that I wasn’t in trouble, but it sure felt like I was,” he explained.

When he refused to change his shirt, the school called his father to have him take him home from school.

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Family prepares to sue school that prohibited 12-year-old from wearing 'two genders' shirt - LifeSite

A family attorney for 12-year-old Liam argues he was censored because of his 'political and cultural viewpoint.' One commentator has more directly pointed out that he was merely 'conveying factually accurate information.'

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[JimR-OCDS]

It supports reasons on why T-shirts with any political/social message should be prohibited at a public school.

Perhaps T-Shirts in general should be prohibited?

 

[Michie]

It supports reasons on why T-shirts with any political/social message should be prohibited at a public school.

Perhaps T-Shirts in general should be prohibited?

I was up at the County Recorder’s office recently taking care of some issues with the sale of my mother’s home. There was a man that must of been well into his 60s wearing a t-shirt with the f-bomb all over it. Nobody goes into these places expecting to be assaulted with crude and vulgar messaging on someone’s shirt. Same with bumper stickers. But if we believe in free speech, I do not think there is much we can do about it. I do think vulgar and obscene messages should be curbed somehow. How to do it, I have no idea.

 

[chevyontheriver]

A family attorney for 12-year-old Liam argues he was censored because of his 'political and cultural viewpoint.' One commentator has more directly pointed out that he was merely 'conveying factually accurate information.'

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Massachusetts (LifeSiteNews) — The family of a 12-year-old boy is preparing to sue his Massachusetts public school for violating his First Amendment rights by forbidding him from wearing a shirt that says “There are only two genders.”

Seventh-grader Liam Morrison recounted during an April 13 school committee meeting how two Nichols Middle School staff members removed him from gym class to tell him he needed to change his shirt in order to be allowed back in class.

“I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt, that my shirt was making some students feel unsafe. Yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe. They told me that I wasn’t in trouble, but it sure felt like I was,” he explained.

When he refused to change his shirt, the school called his father to have him take him home from school.

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Family prepares to sue school that prohibited 12-year-old from wearing 'two genders' shirt - LifeSite

A family attorney for 12-year-old Liam argues he was censored because of his 'political and cultural viewpoint.' One commentator has more directly pointed out that he was merely 'conveying factually accurate information.'

www.lifesitenews.com

Wouldn't it be simpler just to find a Christian school? This is only reason 345,712,976,383 to abandon the government schools. Doh!

 

[Michie]

Wouldn't it be simpler just to find a Christian school? This is only reason 345,712,976,383 to abandon the government schools. Doh!

Problem is, many can’t afford it and it is leaking into even Christian institutions now. Science backs this kid up. Strange this should happen in a learning institution. Christian or not.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Problem is, many can’t afford it ...

We need to do what we can to assist families in their escape from the government schools. But the secret is that there is already financial aid available that often goes unrequested. We need more financial aid to help even more families in the future.

... and it is leaking into even Christian institutions now.

Indeed. Caveat emptor. No sense picking a Christian school and paying the tuition only to find it's just as woke. One needs to do one's homework in picking a good school.

Science backs this kid up. Strange this should happen in a learning institution. Christian or not.

'Follow the science' is a bunch of hoo-haw when they have to suppress biology in the process.

 

[ralliann]

Wouldn't it be simpler just to find a Christian school? This is only reason 345,712,976,383 to abandon the government schools. Doh!

We ought to be able to use our own tax money to send our kids to the school we choose.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

We need to do what we can to assist families in their escape from the government schools. But the secret is that there is already financial aid available that often goes unrequested. We need more financial aid to help even more families in the future.

Indeed. Caveat emptor. No sense picking a Christian school and paying the tuition only to find it's just as woke. One needs to do one's homework in picking a good school.

'Follow the science' is a bunch of hoo-haw when they have to suppress biology in the process.

5 years ago I went to a Catholic priest in my hometown for help with forgiving my abuser and working through some problems. It just turned into a pitch to get my kids to attend the churches school. Point is, I did learn they have aid, but neglected to take them up on it because I went there for help, not to be squeezed for cash. Was very weird.

 

[chevyontheriver]

We ought to be able to use our own tax money to send our kids to the school we choose.

Public school teacher unions lobby VERY hard to prevent exactly this. They want a monopoly. If they can't have that monopoly in fact they want to bleed families who seek alternatives to the government schools.

Nebraska just passed some sort of bill in favor of school choice. Not sure the details yet. It may be a model for other states. Problem is in many states such a thing does not have a ghost of a chance to ever pass. In some states it is only tenuously legal to home school.

 

[chevyontheriver]

5 years ago I went to a Catholic priest in my hometown for help with forgiving my abuser and working through some problems. It just turned into a pitch to get my kids to attend the churches school. Point is, I did learn they have aid, but neglected to take them up on it because I went there for help, not to be squeezed for cash. Was very weird.

Sorry you didn't get the help you needed and asked for. Some priests seem semi-deaf to the needs of their people.

I'm glad you discovered they do have aid for schools. It's still expensive and can be a major sacrifice. It was for me. The tragedy is that some Catholic schools are not much better than the government schools in teaching the faith. You think they should be OK at that and you get surprised that they teach spiritual mush instead. I was blessed to be able to send my kids to an excellent Catholic primary school and a superb Catholic high school with financial aid. My kids have kept the faith and are involved. It's sad to see some kids being taught mush at Catholic schools and then leave the faith. So buyer beware. And to be fair, there are still a few government schools that have not gone full bore woke yet. Maybe somewhere.

 

[ralliann]

Public school teacher unions lobby VERY hard to prevent exactly this. They want a monopoly. If they can't have that monopoly in fact they want to bleed families who seek alternatives to the government schools.

Nebraska just passed some sort of bill in favor of school choice. Not sure the details yet. It may be a model for other states. Problem is in many states such a thing does not have a ghost of a chance to ever pass. In some states it is only tenuously legal to home school.

Yeah, I have heard about this happening. We all pay for our kids to be educated. There is no reason we the parents should have to pay for private education when we already pay. I would love to see all of us rise up and demand a standard curriculum, of academics only. Any and all educators meeting that should be all the government should be interested in. Let the other subjects be treated as "elective" at any school.

 

[BNR32FAN]

It supports reasons on why T-shirts with any political/social message should be prohibited at a public school.

Perhaps T-Shirts in general should be prohibited?

Actually it’s fine if it’s a rainbow pride shirt. They even celebrate pride month in some schools. Go figure.

 

[chevyontheriver]

It supports reasons on why T-shirts with any political/social message should be prohibited at a public school.

Perhaps T-Shirts in general should be prohibited?

They should wear uniforms?

I actually think they should. For one thing it evens out the rich and the poor.

 

[Wolseley]

Middleborough Public Schools superintendent Carolyn Lyons said in an email that Liam violated the school dress code because the “content of Liam’s shirt targeted students of a protected class; namely in the area of gender identity.”

Sort of like the children of members of the Communist Party in the old Soviet Union, who enjoyed more privileges than the children of parents who were not.

 

[RileyG]

Saying there are only two genders is not political. It's biology. Something children should be taught.

 

[Wolseley]

Saying there are only two genders is not political. It's biology. Something children should be taught.

Well, speaking of politics, Communism, and common sense, I am reminded of the old story of the Commissar who was sent from Moscow to a collective farm in the Soviet Union.

The Commissar asked the farmer why he hadn't planted any potatoes yet. The farmer said, "It's too early to plant potatoes, Comrade Commissar----the fields are too cold and too wet. If we plant now, they will simply rot in the fields."

The Commissar replied, "That may be, Comrade Farmer. But the Central Committee of the Communist Party has decreed that you will plant your potatoes at the beginning of this month. That is the correct date to plant."

The farmer replied, "Planting at that date makes no sense, Comrade Commissar! It is ludicrous---agriculturally, it is not the correct time to plant potatoes!"

The Commissar replied, "It may not be the agriculturally correct date to plant potatoes, Comrade Farmer----but it is the politically correct date!"

And thus we have the origin of "political correctness", which in our own day has transmogrified into "woke progressivism". It's the same thing as this transgender nonsense. Is it stupid? Yes. Is it illogical? Yes. Does it fly in the face of all science, biology, common sense, and reality? Most definitely. So why do people continue to believe in it?

Because the Central Committee says so. Except that people are too dumb to realize that they're being manipulated by the Central Committee, which in our case is the woke progressive agenda.