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Missouri district strips 2 happy students? yearbook
1911a1-fan
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KEARNEY, Mo. ? A Missouri school district is apologizing for removing the senior quotes that two openly happy students wanted printed under their yearbook pictures.
KCTV reported that Kearney High graduates Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz were surprised by the absence when they opened the newly printed 2017 yearbook. Both had included closet references in the quotes they submitted. Slivinski?s was, ?Of course I dress well. I didn?t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.?
The district described what happened as a ?mistake? and said in a statement that its policy of not publishing potentially offensive quotes had the ?unintentional consequence of offending the very students the practice was designed to protect.?
The two graduates plan to make stickers to insert their quips into their yearbooks and those of their friends.
what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats
KEARNEY, Mo. ? A Missouri school district is apologizing for removing the senior quotes that two openly happy students wanted printed under their yearbook pictures.
KCTV reported that Kearney High graduates Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz were surprised by the absence when they opened the newly printed 2017 yearbook. Both had included closet references in the quotes they submitted. Slivinski?s was, ?Of course I dress well. I didn?t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.?
The district described what happened as a ?mistake? and said in a statement that its policy of not publishing potentially offensive quotes had the ?unintentional consequence of offending the very students the practice was designed to protect.?
The two graduates plan to make stickers to insert their quips into their yearbooks and those of their friends.
what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats
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https://tinyurl.com/ybnj63tk Slivinski?s was, ?Of course I dress well. I didn?t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.?
That's a funny quote. As long as they respect my space, whatever.
Filling out a Refund Petition for a Street Opening Permit at the L&I department yesterday, a happy-happy circling the area yakking on his phone tapped me on the back to squeeze by. My back muscles spasmed. I wanted to floor the guy.
A straight dude would not have come into my space like that. He would have turned around and continued his pacing the other direction.
I'm not on board with the happy agenda....but I thought the quote was humorous and dorky, just like a senior quote should be.
Agreed, Mr. Ops.
Live and let live.
Some people on both sides of this issue are wrapped just a little to tight.
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
I'm not on board with the happy agenda....but I thought the quote was humorous and dorky, just like a senior quote should be.
Agreed, Mr. Ops.
Live and let live.
Some people on both sides of this issue are wrapped just a little to tight.
I agree also.
When my Son graduated high school, we could buy a small message.
My wife sent in something about "rocking the world at Berklee College of Music".
The proof readers changed it to Berkeley college of music.
Of course it's spelled Berklee! People always have try and out think something when they know nothing of the subject!
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
https://tinyurl.com/ybnj63tk Slivinski?s was, ?Of course I dress well. I didn?t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.?
That's a funny quote. As long as they respect my space, whatever.
Filling out a Refund Petition for a Street Opening Permit at the L&I department yesterday, a happy-happy circling the area yakking on his phone tapped me on the back to squeeze by. My back muscles spasmed. I wanted to floor the guy.
A straight dude would not have come into my space like that. He would have turned around and continued his pacing the other direction.
So did you tell him to enter through the back door?
sure they where clever quotes, and should have not been altered in the first place, but making headlines about not "offending" a certain group by offending another group just dumbfounds me
i guess a few missed my point about the .01% being offended are allowed to offend the rest of us
sure they where clever quotes, and should have not been altered in the first place, but making headlines about not "offending" a certain group by offending another group just dumbfounds me
Why would any rational person be offended by that quote?
Brad Steele
But the suggestion that happy guys dress well is OK.
I don't really care I just don't like the Hypocrisy.
What would you do if your child came to you and told you he or she was g a y?
Would you turn your back on them?
Never hug them again?
Tell your family they could not associate with them any longer?
I ask this because I went through this last year with a guy I considered a friend and had known for well on 25 years. His son came out at age 23 and he went off the deep end. Disowned his son and it cost him his marriage of 28 years because he was preventing mom (his wife) from seeing her son and his daughter from seeing her brother.
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
i guess a few missed my point about the .01% being offended are allowed to offend the rest of us
sure they where clever quotes, and should have not been altered in the first place, but making headlines about not "offending" a certain group by offending another group just dumbfounds me
Why would any rational person be offended by that quote?
again you missed the point
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
i guess a few missed my point about the .01% being offended are allowed to offend the rest of us
sure they where clever quotes, and should have not been altered in the first place, but making headlines about not "offending" a certain group by offending another group just dumbfounds me
Why would any rational person be offended by that quote?
again you missed the point
No, I get the point. I just don't understand why you or anyone else would be offended by the closet joke.
Shall I quote you? "what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats"
Brad Steele
Shall I quote you? "what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats"
see you did not get the point at all, or you are deliberately trying to twist what you actually quoted into this one indecent
"what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats"
i was making a general statement about happy's getting forced into our everyday lives, media,advertisements, television, movies, military, and yes schools , all so they are not "offended"
so no i think it is safe to say you did not get my point
quote:No, I get the point. I just don't understand why you or anyone else would be offended by the closet joke.
Shall I quote you? "what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats"
see you did not get the point at all, or you are deliberately trying to twist what you actually quoted into this one indecent
"what about those offended by the happy bs getting rammed down their throats"
i was making a general statement about happy's getting forced into our everyday lives, media,advertisements, television, movies, military, and yes schools , all so they are not "offended"
so no i think it is safe to say you did not get my point
Oh, I see. You are conflating a joke in a Year Book with something that is actually offensive.
Silly me. So you are not offended by the yearbook quote and agree that it was a mistake to remove them?
Is that then the point of starting this thread? If that is the case, why the addition of the last line?
Brad Steele
i never stated i was offended by this singular incident so stop trying to twist my words into saying that's what i said
but now that you asked so kindly, i am offended by the reason they put those quotes back , not in agreement that they should have removed them in the first place, i am offended that this is even news