From: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: School bans `no rules' T-shirt Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:25:30 -0500 To: believer@telepath.com Source: St. Paul, Minnesota Pioneer Planet News http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/wis_docs/010832.htm Published: Thursday, September 17, 1998 School bans `no rules' T-shirt ASSOCIATED PRESS WAUKESHA, WIS. A fifth grader was ordered to turn his T-shirt inside-out because it carried the message ``No Rules,'' which the principal said promoted disruptive behavior. But the youth's mother said Saratoga Elementary School principal Dale Heinen overstepped his bounds and that there was no harm in wearing such shirts, which depict cartoon characters and carry the slogan, ``Outta my way. No Rules.'' Heinen made Cody Wilhelm wear the shirt inside-out so no one could read its message. ``School guidelines talk about things that are disruptive and can lead to disruption,'' Heinen said. ``If they are portraying that in what they wear . . . we don't want kids reflecting that attitude or promoting that type of attitude.'' Mary Wilhelm said her son's T-shirt was not disruptive and that parents should have the right to dress their children with any clothes they want to as long as they do not promote sex, drugs, alcohol, tobacco or illegal activities. She said her son went to school last year wearing one of the ``No Rules'' T-shirts and also wore a T-shirt depicting ``Joe Camel,'' a cartoon character formerly used to promote Camel cigarettes. School officials did not object, she said. ``He should have never worn that Joe Camel shirt, I agree, but that dealt with smoking,'' Wilhelm said. ``This is different. I don't want to have the principal tell me what I can and can't do with my kid.'' ©1998 PioneerPlanet / St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press - All Rights Reserved copyright information ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************