suspended for swimsuit issue?

[Lucky Leo]

ESPN.com news services
A 12-year-old student at a Belpre, W.Va., school apparently has been suspended for bringing a copy of Sports Illustrated to school.


Of course, it wasn't just any old edition of the magazine.


Sixth-grader Justin Reyes was suspended for three days for bringing Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition to his public school, Pittsburgh TV station WPXI reported on its Web site on Monday.


Belpre City School District officials said sexually suggestive material is not allowed on school property.


"You saw bad stuff on the Super Bowl halftime show," Justin said. "You could see more on that than in [the magazine]."


A teacher confiscated the magazine and officials recommended Justin spend time at an alternative school. His mother, Nicole, refused, adding that she's outraged the school district considers the magazine to school a delinquent act, WPXI reported.


"That is not sexual harassment. I doubt my 12-year-old is the only one looking at Sports Illustrated," she was quoted as saying.

[Homer]

Something this country is just messed up with. They want to fix the problem. They should start with the root:

1.) The parents should take a little responsibility and be more a part of their Childs life. Instead of blaming everyone else for the way his or her kids are.

2.) Then they should actually make the national TV stations fix the way they broadcast on TV.

I don't know about other parts of the U.S. but where I live it's always someone else fault for the way their kids are never their own.


P.S. - Whatever happened to that commerical "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE WATCHING"

Sorry for the Vent but it just pisses me off :D :D

[Lucky Leo]

No problem that article was put here for everyone to vent. It pisses me off that some stuff is treated more seriously than it is while the serious shit is not treated like anything at all. Things need to be changed and I don't see it changing for the better. This world has been getting more screwed up since I have been growing up. I also have a little article I am going to post after this to show how everything that is supposed to be bad for us isn't crap and how the government dictate to us how to act.

Now I am done venting. Here is the article.
> > > People over 30 should be dead. Here's why . . . According to today's
> > > regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's,
50's,
> > > and 60's probably shouldn't have survived.
> > > Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We
> had
> > > no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets . . . and
when
> > we
> > > rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took
> > > hitchhiking.)
> > > As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags.
> Riding
> > > in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special
treat.
> > > We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
> > > We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in
it,
> > but
> > > we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
> > > We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no
one
> > > actually died from this.
> > > We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode
> > down
> > > the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
the
> > > bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
> > > We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
were
> > > back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all
> day.
> > > No cell phones. Unthinkable!
> > > We did not have Play stations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at
> > all,
> > > no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal
> cell
> > > phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends!
We
> > > went outside and found them.
> > > We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt. We
> fell
> > > out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no
> > lawsuits
> > > from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but
us.
> > > Remember accidents?
> > > We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and
learned
> to
> > > get over it.
> > > When a family member or a friend died we didn't have grief counselors
> and
> > > crisis counselors and psychologists come rushing to our aid. Mom was
our
> > > counselor and we learned to cope with it.
> > > We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and
> although
> > > we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor
did
> > > the worms live inside us forever.
> > > We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or
> > rang
> > > the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
> > > Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
> > didn't
> > > had to learn to deal with disappointment.
> > > Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and
> were
> > > held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted
> for
> > > any reason.
> > > Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a
> > > parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually
> > > sided with the law. Imagine that!
> > > This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
> > > solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion
> of
> > > innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
> > > responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're
one
> of
> > > them! Congratulations!
> > > Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids,
> > > before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
> Kind
> > > of makes you want to run through the house with scissors?
> > >
> > > People under 30 are WIMPS!

[Same Old Bill]

Not that it matters much but Belpre is in OHIO not West Virginia. So yes rednecks still can bring SI to school in WV:tongue: