crfriend wrote:I'll have to say that in reading the original article I'm actually rather surprised on how well everybody in question is handling the situation -- quite unlike, I suspect, what'd happen on these shores.
I figure that'd be accurate, that here, they'd make a mountain out of a molehill. Like rules in the dress code against wearing a certain color(s) or certain clothing because you might get mistaken for a gangbanger (even if the school's out in the suburbs...sheesh, I read about a school that made a girl take her red, white and blue necklace off cus some gang was using those colors. Ironically, the school itself used red, white and blue:sarcastic: ), or you can't wear backless shoes because of safety concerns (Why? they can bring tennis shoes with em for gym or recess. and I don't remember needing to run all that much in algebra
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it's sadly hilarious to me how hung up a lot of folks here (in the US, I mean) are about sexuality-sad because obviously, it's none of their business; hilarious because they think they're holier-than-thou right. If Billy and his mom were American, I could see the mom saying "Oh my God, my boy's turning gay!" while wearing jeans :sarcastic:
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