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School Bans Sesame Street Gang T-Shirts
POSTED: 10:53 am EDT May 24, 2006
BROCKTON, Mass. -- A high school in Massachusetts has banned certain T-shirts featuring Sesame Street characters.
But these aren't typical pictures of Big Bird and the crew.
In some, Bert and Ernie are standing in a gang posture, armed with automatic weapons. Others feature Oscar the Grouch emerging from his garbage can, wielding a 9 mm handgun.
Brockton High School Principal Susan Szachowicz said only a few of the shirts appeared, but that was enough for the school to ban them because of the violent, pro-gang message.
She said the T-shirts also violate the school's dress policy.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Blind Melvana wrote:
What a stupid thing to get upset about. Why not discourage girls from disrespecting themselves and ban "Porn Star" shirts instead?
I belive that guns, cursing, AND sexual innuendo were banned from clothing in my high school.
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
Wow Brockton is right near my house. It's not exactly a nice city.
I was driving through there and some dude tried to jump in front of my car, presumably to get hit, and then get insurance money. The kicker was that I was driving an '87 corolla.
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Jammer91 wrote:
:lol: I have a shirt with the "sesame street mafia" on it
wear it to school, hopefully be told to take it off/change shirts, so the school for freedom of speech violation, win big, and give me 5% for suggesting the idea.
seeing bert and ernie with guns makes me feel like i just lost a little bit of my childhood.
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I have a shirt with the "sesame street mafia" on it
