Post subject: THIS, my friends, is why we have litigation.
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:31 am
too drunk to moderate properly
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Don't forget to scroll down for the photo. Oh yeah, we need more people suing to be immortalized in fantasy garb! I applaud this young gay man's choice.
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Mom sues over rejection of yearbook photo Senior’s picture with sword nixed because of school’s no-weapons policy
AP In this 2006 photo released by Heidi Farrington, her son, Portsmouth High School senior Patrick Agin, 17, is shown in his Society for Creative Anachronism costume in Portsmouth, R.I. Portsmouth High rejected the photo for use in the school yearbook.
Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET Dec 12, 2006 PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The mother of a high school senior who posed in chain mail and held a medieval sword for his yearbook picture sued after the school rejected the photo because of its "zero-tolerance" policy against weapons.
Patrick Agin, 17, belongs to the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international organization that researches and recreates medieval history. He submitted the photo in September for the Portsmouth High School yearbook.
But the school's principal refused to allow the portrait as Agin's official yearbook photo because he said it violated a policy against weapons and violence in schools, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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The lawsuit seeks an order that would prevent the yearbook from being published without Agin's senior portrait.
Agin's mother, Heidi Farrington, said she and her son believe the decision defies common sense.
"He doesn't see it as promoting violence," Farrington said Tuesday. "He sees it just as a theatrical expression of the reenactment community that he's involved in right now."
According to the lawsuit, principal Robert Littlefield told Farrington she could pay to put the photo in the advertising section of the book, but he would not allow it as Agin's senior portrait.
"That in and of itself demonstrates to us that there's absolutely no legitimate rationale for banning Patrick's photo," said Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU.
Littlefield said he thought there would be less editorial scrutiny given to paid advertising space, and that an ad would not be viewed as receiving the school's endorsement.
The complaint says there is nothing in the weapons policy that would apply to the picture Agin submitted. It also says the weapons policy is arbitrarily enforced, noting theatrical plays at the school have included prop weapons and that the mascot — a patriot — is depicted on school grounds and publications as carrying a weapon.
In this 2006 photo released by Heidi Farrington, her son, Portsmouth High School senior Patrick Agin, 17, is shown in his Society for Creative Anachronism costume in Portsmouth, R.I. Portsmouth High rejected the photo for use in the school yearbook.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Buffalohed wrote:
I bet they didn't tell him no to his face while he was wearing that huge fucking sword.
How much do you want to bet that someone had to lift that onto his shoulder for him?
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Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:54 am Posts: 7189 Location: CA
From what I hear, its completely ok to carry a sword openly in public as long as it remains sheathed. Why have concealed firearms when you could carry one of those around, with an added deterrent?
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simple schoolboy wrote:
From what I hear, its completely ok to carry a sword openly in public as long as it remains sheathed. Why have concealed firearms when you could carry one of those around, with an added deterrent?
Only nobles are allowed to carry swords, plebe.
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Zero tolerance is a pretty bad idea in general. It equates a bread knife accidentally left in someones car to someone who carries around a butterfly knife threatening people. I guess public schools don't have the freedom to enact sensible policies because some kid will try to push the envelope. As to this kid.... why would you want to be immortalised as a nerd of this degree?
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Zero tolerance is a pretty bad idea in general. It equates a bread knife accidentally left in someones car to someone who carries around a butterfly knife threatening people. I guess public schools don't have the freedom to enact sensible policies because some kid will try to push the envelope. As to this kid.... why would you want to be immortalised as a nerd of this degree?
There was a pencil stabbing at my school once... Maybe they should ban those.
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