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What do you think of this girl being suspended?You can read the story [URL="http://www.theindychannel.com/education/13997343/detail.html"]here[/URL].This story came from indychannel, a website for a local Indy station affiliated with ABC.
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I have to agee with those who talk about obeying the rules of the school, especially as a believer. We set the example and total disregard for rules breeds irreverence and disrespect.
We break laws all the time - I was peronally just doing some soul searching on driving defensively as I had to attend a class here on campus & it opened my eyes and heart to show how too many times I as an adult disregard the law of the land. As believers we should be committed to this very thing, but all too often try make a stand... Making a stand is good if it is for the right reasons. So I guess in a nut shell I would ask this young girl, what is the motive of your heart to wear this tshirt or is it to make a difference or show that you have a voice? If it is to have a voice, then why do it in a way that does not show irreverence for the rules of the school, because there are other ways to get things changed, like a petition with students and faculty signatures, presenting it to the powers at be...
I believe change can be made here if approached in the right way...
How is it courageous? One could actually view her behavior as simply the deliberately provocative behaviour of a teen. If it is imperative that she lives her beliefs, there are private schools where she could spend the whole day doing just that. What if she were wearing a bare midriff and a pair of daisy dukes while asserting her rights? How about a"Satan is my Homeboy" t-shirt? What percentage of people would then support her rights to flout the dress code?
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I do not think wearing it in violation is, but I do agree with Jenna that for a teen to wear one period, is. Today Christians are ridiculed for our believes all the time, and for a teen peer pressure can be a huge thing. For one to wear her faith, as others have said, is courageous, IMHO.
If she were wearing it on her own time, maybe. But in this case to marry her need for religious expression to a finite period of time in a non-religious environment with a dress code seems to smacks less of courage then of either typical teenage rebellion or a bit of misplaced belief. If the issue is freedom of speech, that can be achieved in many ways before, after or even during school without a t-shirt. Flouting dress code rules that were likely to have been put in place for pragmatic reasons such as saftey, cost of clothing, revealing styles, etc. seems like a really odd approach to ensuring that your religious belief system is not tred upon and certainly not behavior that I would label "courageous" Just my opinion.
bajj
alinev, no one has posted that she should be allowed to break the dress code. I believe everyone, including those of us who said yes she is courageous, all said she broke the code and therefore should be punished.
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You are more than welcome to disagree with me! :)I will not speak for the others who have said she was courageous, but I will speak for myself. I did not in anyway mean she was courageous for breaking the rules. I think she was misguided and she does need to suffer the consequences. I do, however, think she is courageous for wanting to wear shirts that profess her beliefs around her peers. I think there is a better time and place to do that than a school that doesn't allow it, but I still think her desire to want to is courageous. :)
Lorraine123
. I don't see this as a Christian issue, I see it as a disrepecting the school rules issue. Jmo
To wear Christian attire in a non-Christian world can be a brave thing to do. If my kids were sent home for wearing and of their shirts with Christian messages I would be upset. BUT the school my children attend does NOT have a policy on not wearing shirts with messages, and does not have uniforms. I figure if one kid can wear a shirt that says "My eyes see you mouth moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah" then my child can wear one that says "Obedience is done quickly, just as Jonah".
But that being said, in the case of this girl, where there is an actual uniform that is required, and it is against school policy to where anytype of message attire, she is in the wrong The New Testament clearly tells us that we are to submit to authority.
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mrsred
To wear Christian attire in a non-Christian world can be a brave thing to do. If my kids were sent home for wearing and of their shirts with Christian messages I would be upset. BUT the school my children attend does NOT have a policy on not wearing shirts with messages, and does not have uniforms. I figure if one kid can wear a shirt that says "My eyes see you mouth moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah" then my child can wear one that says "Obedience is done quickly, just as Jonah". But that being said, in the case of this girl, where there is an actual uniform that is required, and it is against school policy to where anytype of message attire, she is in the wrong The New Testament clearly tells us that we are to submit to authority.
mrsred
To wear Christian attire in a non-Christian world can be a brave thing to do. If my kids were sent home for wearing and of their shirts with Christian messages I would be upset. BUT the school my children attend does NOT have a policy on not wearing shirts with messages, and does not have uniforms. I figure if one kid can wear a shirt that says "My eyes see you mouth moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah" then my child can wear one that says "Obedience is done quickly, just as Jonah".
But that being said, in the case of this girl, where there is an actual uniform that is required, and it is against school policy to where anytype of message attire, she is in the wrong The New Testament clearly tells us that we are to submit to authority.