LONDONDERRY, N.H. -- The school board has voted to ban a photo of a student from the senior section of his high school yearbook because he is posed with a shotgun.
School officials said they'd reconsider including the photo, if the boy would only allow them to digitally remove the gun from his hands and replace it with a giant sucker like those carried by The Lollipop Guild in The Wizard of Oz (I'm kidding, guys).
Seriously, they were willing to post another photo, but only if no gun appeared.
Last month the yearbook staff, adviser, principal and superintendent chose to bar the photo from the yearbook, saying the firearm was inappropriate.
Inappropriate for whom? A linguine-spined liberal who cries when a fly alights on his arm? People who believe guns harbor demonic spirits that transform happy-go-lucky children into Columbine-like assassins? People who believe boys should be feminized at an early age, by playing with Barbies (ok, maybe a Ken doll)?
Put bluntly, it's only "inappropriate" if you're a simpering wimp.
Dean (the boy's mother) cited a statement on student publications in the board's policy manual: "We encourage the use of school sponsored publications to express students' points of view. They shall be free from all policy restrictions outside the normal rules for responsible journalism."
As a result of liberalism, the school finds no conflict in contradicting its own policies, printed in black and white for all to read.
Another example of the same mindset:
Phelps used the costume when taking part of the re-enactment of the Battle of Chancellorville which was staged by the 124th New York State Volunteers. The re-enactors say they are models of the unit that came from Orange County and fought in the Civil war. High School students were recruited to take part in the re-enactors club. Phelps' mother questions why give the students fake guns and then arrest them.
The article isn't 100% clear, but it seems as if the gun wasn't real.
Is it a requirement that those applying for school administrative positions possess intelligence quotients lower than the school's dumbest student? Even if your school has a daunting curriculum and an amazing track-record of success, contending with such idiots supplies reason enough for homeschooling.
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