[John Henry]

http://www.katu.com/stories/76079.html



Should a photo of an armed Marine be posted at a school?


By Shellie Bailey-Shah
and KATU Web Staff
Salem, Ore. - A picture of a Marine holding an assault rifle has sparked a wave of controversy at a Salem high school.

The problem began when the Marine's sister brought the picture to McKay High School to post on a classroom bulletin board.

The assignment was to show McKay graduates at work.

However, the principal of the school, Cynthia Richardson, would not allow the picture to go up because of the school's zero tolerance policy on weapons.

"What message am I sending to my students if I post that picture?" she asked.

What do you think?

All it takes is one look around the school to see that there may be a problem with that logic, considering that the school mascot is seen carrying a sword.



"He has a sword. (That is) so true. We might have to revisit that," said Richardson when KATU News asked her about the mascot's imagery.

If you look at the school policy pertaining to weapons, there is no word about pictures of weapons.

Richardson says she made the best decision she could at the time and still stands by her belief that the picture should not go up at the school.

The school has offered to post the picture with the guns digitally removed, but the soldier and his family say that is not enough to put the issue to rest.

"It's not just a picture in dress blues. It is a picture of real life and there are guns. And he just wants everyone to know that the war is still going on and it's real life," said Shea Riecke, the soldier's sister.

"We're very proud of him," said Connie Riecke, the soldier's mother. "We're proud every day."

[BobD]

Guns and God made this great country what it is today. PC'ism sucks big time. If we did not defend ourselves from foreign aggression, we would be speaking German, Japanese, or French today.

[Marinesg1012]

I buy shirts for my Bro's whenever I am at a base.
I bought one for my youngest bro that has a Marine scout/sniper on there that says "the choice is mine"
He wore it to school, teachers fliped and asked him to turn it inside out, he pulls out his copy of the pocket constitution (:D) and says it is his first ammedment right to wear the shirt. Teacher says no, Bro being the young smart, curtious kid that he is says fine and turns it inside out.
Dad hears about it before i do.
Dad calls the school, than says that his son is supporting his older brother. Than says that if his son isnt allowed to wear the shirt the school will be sued. That got the schools attention, they were concerend about the image a Marine on a shirt would have :dunno:
Brother made up a school mural depicting the different services and what they did. :up:

Schools are way out of hand.

[Antlurz]

Bob...

If we close our eyes real tight, all the nastiness of the world will go away.....

Ron

[7.62mmFMJ]

LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY LALALALALALALALALALALALA

See no evil, speak no evil..........................


:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :puke:

[BobD]

Bob...

If we close our eyes real tight, all the nastiness of the world will go away.....

Ron

Antlurz...., I don't quite understand your post to me in this thread, but then again, we ain't seen eye to eye since Craig Kilborn resigned. Are you trying to provoke a response from me, or just in a reflective moment? Hit me with your best shot!

[Marinesg1012]

Bob, I am pretty sure ron was being sarcastic, he just forgot to add in the appropriate smilie.

Such as :rolleyes:

[Popeye]

During and immediately after the Viet Nam war, the cowards, liberals, elitists, socialists and communists infiltrated our education system. They are the NEA.

We and our parents let it happen. Today we experience the results.

[Marinesg1012]

it is sad but we have to fix it, take the gov't out of the system and start firing people.

[BobD]

During and immediately after the Viet Nam war, the cowards, liberals, elitists, socialists and communists infiltrated our education system. They are the NEA.

We and our parents let it happen. Today we experience the results.

I graduated from Niceville HS in Fla in June of 1968, 10th in a class of 230, and got my Draft Card while in Basic Training at Harmony Church Ft. Benning, GA, just two months after I turned 18 on 9 August, 1968. I spent 18 months in Da Nang at a Signal Corps Site, not especially hazardous duty, but I was there. My Dad was a Lifer in the USAF, and I was brought up to believe Viet Nam was about fighting the advancement of global Communism. Me and my parents are conservative America-Lovers and believe in the Red, White, and Blue. The cowards, liberals, elitists, socialists and communists were/are the vocal enemy within then/today. They deserve my scorn/hatred, and I will delve it to them as long as I have the way and the means to do so. :D

[wildames]

re:"LOOK AWAY LOOK AWAY LALALALALALALALALALALALA"


Thought you were breakin' into a chorus of "Dixie" for a second...... :D

[BobD]

Do-Dah......Do-Dah...... :D

[Marinesg1012]

Wild would know nothing of which you speak Bob

[wildames]

"Old MacDonald"? :P

[Marinesg1012]

My point exactly
;)

[wildames]

OK, I'll bite....what is it?...that which Bob speaks of....or rather, "sings" of....

[Marinesg1012]

Service to the country.

[7.62mmFMJ]

Camptown Races says Foghorn Leghorn :D

[Phil Ca]

Each week our town paper has some color prints of drawings kids in the local school have drawn. After hearing all the BS about Zero Tolerance reading weapons in school I was amazed to see one picture, it depicted a couple of GI's parachuting into an Iraqi town. And get this! The GI's are carrying weapons! The horror....when will it ever end? :D

When I was a kid in school during and right after WW2 we boys, nearly all of us, drew tanks, war planes, diving and strafing targets on the ground and also aerial dogfights.

Here in the Central Valley there are a large number of Sikhs from India. The boys are required by their religion to carry a small ceremonial knife called a Kirpan (search) and it has created a stir at some schools.

Last Sunday there were some 3000 or 4000 Khalsa Sikhs in a annual parade in the town of Livingston about 20 minutes from Modesto. The chief of police is a Vietnam vet and one or two of the officers are Asian Indian.

[BobD]

I played Cowboys and Indians. Today's kid's play videos and rap music. When they go to war and someone yells 'Get Down', they'll get up and dance, and get shot. :(

[wildames]

re:"Foghorn Leghorn"



:up: :tiphat: :clap: :army:

[Marinesg1012]

Phil- Those weapons are needed for thier culture so they have to allow them, the sheeple just cant see guns are as part of my culture as those knives are to them.

[7.62mmFMJ]

Guns are part of my culture and I wear one wherever I go in the free state of Utah :D

[Antlurz]

Bob....

Just got back and I'm waaaayyyy behind on this thread. My comment about closing ones eyes wasn't, as Adam surmised, about you, but about the people you were talking about.

Ron

BTW..., Who's Craig Kilborn? ;)

[Mike Weber]

Keep in mind that Salem is the capitol of the Socialist Republik of Orygun. Shouldn't come as any surprise in a state in which school officials routinly ask the students if their parents keep any guns in the home. My boy nearly got suspended when he told the school counciler when asked this question that it wasn't any of his F****ing business. These questions were presented under the guise of a home safety quiz. A taxpayer funded attempt by school officials to snoop into the students homes.

[Marinesg1012]

Mike-:up: :up: