"Feel for lumps, save your bumps" is a slogan that has been banned from being allowed on a football field for a Cheer leading fundraiser to bring awareness to breast cancer. The schools administration allowed for the idea of shirts to be bought and worn during a football game to raise funds for breast cancer awareness by the cheer squad. Now however the administration has forbade them from wearing them. They believe that the slogan is to risky for young people. As the story reads, breast cancer awareness ideas have been pushing the line when it comes to young people and awareness. On the other side of the country, a group in Pennsylvania was not allowed to wear a bracelet that was meant for BCA, however a federal judge upheld their right to wear it. So is it pushing the limit? Read the story and let me hear what you think.
I think that this shows how little trust that school administrations have in their students. They are always afraid that something this trivial is going to lead to lawsuits of sexual harassment. If you do not have the faith that your HIGH SCHOOL students know how to handle themselves when it comes to this, then you have a bigger problem and are not doing your job to your fullest extent. The way that teens think now a days you have to speak in their "language." If this involves putting a the above slogan on it, you need to trust that your students know that this is for BAC. If you don't trust them, hold a school wide assembly where you explain what your are going to do and what it means.
Schools need to be able to trust their students. I know that this is not always possible, but you at least need to try. If you ban a shirt that has the slogan of an awareness group, how to you expect to make people aware. I personally do not believe that this slogan went over the line. I would understand the administrations point if it was a worse slogan with an inappropriate picture, but take a look at the picture above.
As always, I would like to hear what you have to say!
I agree with you here. People need to be aware of the issue/risks of breast cancer and the only way for us to be aware is to hear it from someone else. I honestly don't think that these shirts are inappropriate at all. They are easy to understand, and make sense. Schools seem to have issues with everything these days, and it gets kind of annoying. If they are so concerned about lawsuits then they should just put in their handbook that having/wearing any literacy or image that may offend another student is at the discretion of the student and that if it does offend another student, the school would not be held responsible for any law suits. How hard would that be?
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