Coco Beach Jr/Sr. High bans Peace club

[donsu]

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/VERGE/711190303/1035/verge

Give peace a chance
Group says wearing their shirts on campus has caused quite a stir



Students at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High are waging a war on peace.

It all started when sophomore Skylar Stains decided to have Peace Shirt Thursdays. Skylar and her friend, Lauren Lorraine, started wearing peace shirts and soon recruited more friends to wear them. Now, the "Peace Shirt Coalition" as they call themselves, has close to 30 students from all grades.

"We've worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail," Skylar said.

But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context. Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren.

"People just turned on us like that," she said. "At least 10 boys stood up and yelled things at me at once, and we couldn't even walk through the halls without a harsh comment being made."

The heckling began early in the school year, according to group members. They say they were putting small posters promoting peace on friends' lockers with their permission. They thought it was OK, because the cheerleaders and football players had signs on theirs. Eventually, though, group members say they were told by the school's administration they could no longer hang up the posters.

"People tore them down and drew swastikas and 'white power' stuff on them," Lauren said.

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Since peace is causing other problems, the peace kids are being punished," Skylar said.
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boys who will become dangerous, ignorant men

the school needs a better educated principle

[maveric]

1. "People tore them down and drew swastikas and 'white power' stuff on them," Lauren said.

What are we becoming?
Makes you really wonder who won WWII.

[Lorien]

7. And "I love America because America loves war" along with

"If peace is the answer then the question is stupid" (a few signs from the jr. Nazis at the school). What do you want to bet that the anti-peace student are self proclaimed "Christians"? I think that they would have found Jesus to be EXTREMELY offensive if they had met him.

[kestrel91316]

8. I don't wonder at all, personally. Just look at who our president is.

[Rex]

2. Well there ya go, sums it all up right there - swastikas and white power stuff.

Hateful people, erm, HATE peace. Peace is wussy, peace is for weaklings etc..

Sad

Pathetic

Wrong.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. If the Peace Club is banned, then the school cannot sponsor ANY club.

According to federal law, if one club is banned, then the school cannot host any other club. This was during the Clinton era in order to allow christian clubs to flourish in public schools.

[nashville_brook]

4. i went to high school and jr high just a few miles south in Satellite Beach...

and i can tell you that the school system down here SUCKS. especially beachside, the schools are heavily conservative (b/c of the military) and football is given way more attention than academics.

this doesn't surprise me one bit.

[ixion]

5. welcome to the new barbarianism

we should be so proud. :sarcasm:

[Warpy]

6. The older and more cynical I get

the more I realize that nobody ever wins a war except the losers, people who generally end up with an improved and less violent government and a newer infrastructure a couple of decades later. I can cite examples all over the world of this, from post WWII Europe to Vietnam.

The exception, of course, is Germany after WWI.

[jeff30997]

9. I've got one word to say to those idiots:

Enlist!:grr: (Too young?Then prove you're a real Murkan and lie about your age,scumbag!)

[MindPilot]

10. there's ROTC until you are 18

Are those shitheads actually in ROTC or delayed enlistment programs?

No doubt all of them are eager to do their part for the war effort. I'm sure of it.