Friday, July 30, 2010
Hargrove Franklin High Students Protest Flip Flop Ban...FAIL?
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:59 PM
They're refusing to obey the new Draconian dress code which bans — the humanity! — flip flops. Truly, flip flops are the "cornerstone," as The Tennessean reports, of every slovenly high school student's wardrobe ... along with frayed ball caps and khaki cargo shorts.
"I always wear flip flops," junior Gabrielle Lamay told Jennifer Brooks of The Tennessean. "I just kind of think (the ban) is dumb." Powerful stuff.
Some 200 students have signed onto a Facebook campaign to flout the dictatorial decree.
Pith's verdict: Civil disobedience FAIL...
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Like, oh my god! Whatever happened to freedom in this country? Is this like, Russia or something? Wait til Congressman Marsha hears about this! She'll be like, oh my god!
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Now by God Franklin High School needs to meet this challenge firmly. How about anybody wearing flip-flops on the premises be banned, barred, kicked out of school if a student and denied graduation. Shit, a decree is a decree!
Now lets just get things straight. When rules are declared, best you better listen and obey. If you don't your ass is gonna' be in a sling. That's the way things work in Tennessee. So just pay attention and be obedient. It's for your own good.
Lord help us all if Ramsey is electected since he has been studying sharia law and seconed amendment only he is going to ban everything and declare guns and blountville style methodist sharia law the new state constitution,there by rest of constitution and all other religions are outlawed,.
"Like, oh my god! Whatever happened to freedom in this country? Is this like, Russia or something? Wait til Congressman Marsha hears about this! She'll be like, oh my god!"
Word to that Buffy!!!!!
What is wrong with the administration in this school? I grew up in a neighborhood where the only people that wore flip flops or house shoes were the ones that would most definitely knock you the hell out if you messed with them, but that was at Stratford in the 90's. My point is where is the freedom, we don't fight for ours and others to not have freedom. Do they let kids play football?
Like, OMG, Justin! You are SO right! It's like, FREEDOM!!! Like, it what's our brave soldiers are fighting for over there in Iraq and places such as that and so forth. My feet get SO hot and plus no one can see my pedicure if I have to wear shoes!!! It's like, WTF?? Shoes?? That's for OLD people. Yuck!!!
I'm sorry shouldn't they be more concerned with the kids learning something?? I graduated from Franklin. Most of the classes I slept in, because they weren't focused on teaching much of anything. All you Franklin kids keep sporting the flip-flops! And tell em you just want learn.
Okay, maybe in the aging process (since I am 54) somewhere along the line I have lost some brain cells, because I fail to see how wearing flip flops to school is going to take away from ones intellectual capacity. I also, do not see where wearing flip flops would cause any other kind of problems. Is there that much boredom amongst the governing entities of the school that they have decided to start making an issue out of something that really has no bearing on the capacity of someone to learn. Seems to me that today's students are already stressed enough. Try putting yourself in their shoes (God forbid you should put yourself in their flip flops), our society has 5 year olds in school from 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon and they have to know what you used to learn in kindergarten before they go to kindergarten, high school students are expected to know what used to be second year college, no one is allowed to pee or sneeze out of turn in our "free society". Good Lord, give the students a break.
