[Boomer]

Our society is permeated with a sense of entitlement. Our precious Freedom of Speech has been twisted and turned by so many who can see only themselves. And twisted even more by some who consider themselves to be the intelligentsia. There are few who can be more narrow-minded than those types. Talk about "The Death of Common Sense."

Here's a little example of "Free Speech" gone down the wrong road.

Public schools have had to deal with absolutely appalling statements made on t-shirts worn to school by kids. Marketing aimed at our kids. I have seen shirts on teenage girls that say, "When I am good I am very good, and when I am bad I am even better." There was another one that had to do with how to "save a tree." I will not quote that here. But trust me, there was nothing environmental about the statement. I cannot remember which store it was that sold those shirts. It might have been Abercrombie and Fitch, along with many others. Making a buck by prostituting kids. And some parents too stupid to see it.

And so is that Freedom of Speech? Letting kids wear t-shirts proclaiming whatever.

You might be surprised at how often these shirts are bought by parents. I don't get it. I do know that the argument against dress codes always attempts to drag in Freedom of Speech where those t-shirts are concerned. This issue can suck up hours and hours of time for the public schools, trying to enforce dress codes, trying to not allow things that are not good for kids.

And then when a public school wants to go to uniforms, welllllll, then they are accused of another form of infringing on the rights of students to express themselves freely.

Wearing inappropriate statements on the front of one's shirt??? Freedom of Speech???? Defended by some parents who actually buy such shirts for their teenagers???? There are some who do that, you know. Arguing "Freedom of Speech." Infringing on the rights of other kids who do not want to see this stuff.

And, in addition to all that "Freedom of Speech" stuff, I also could never figure out how allowing your kid to wear a sexual invitation on the front of a t-shirt is different from allowing the kid to drink the toilet bowl cleaner.

Boomer