I think that the lesson here is to teach kids about the importance of rules. Just like I have to dress a certain way for my job, or for a job interview, or a formal event, so kids need to learn that they have to abide by certain policies, and standards out in the real world. School is what kids "do." It is supposed to prepare them for real life. Rules are a part of that. I cannot stand up at work and yell out a profanity at someone. I can't wear jeans and sneakers. I can't yell fire in a crowded theater. Free speech, whether in the form of verbal uttering or dress, is curtailed every single day, in many situations. That's life. The kid and her parents should deal with it. The writer of the article has no proof that the school wouldn't ask a student to remove a National Guard shirt. He is just assuming. Also, at not time did the principal SAY the picture of the hunter with the gun was "scary." The writer is inserting his own assumptions once again. But, as for an Army shirt, I bet they have an ROTC at the school ,so a military shirt would fall under an approved school activity/course of learning. Unless they have a hunting club, then a shirt depicting the imminent slaughter of wildlife does not carry the same approval. So, the two cannot actually be compared. I did look up the school. They do have an ROTC but not a hunting club or course of study in becoming a hunter or woodsman.
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