Student Banned From Wearing Rosary Beads to Avoid Confusion: Fair?
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2012/06/08 20:37:52
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Jake Balthazor, a 15-year-old student in Coon Rapids, a northern suburb of Minneapolis, got in trouble for wearing black and silver rosary honoring his cancer-stricken grandmother. The school said it will let Jake keep the beads in his pocket. The school district’s policy forbids any “apparel, jewelry, accessories or matter of grooming which by virtue of its color arrangement, trademark or any other attribute denotes membership in an organized gang.”
Jake doesn't belong to a gang, but other may not know that and get confused. The school suggests it may cause violence on campus from other gangs from the confusion.
“He was told not to wear it again,” Chad Balthazor said Thursday. “He was upset when he came home from school. A teacher sent him down to the office, but the reason he was wearing it was for his grandmother.”
Jake doesn't belong to a gang, but other may not know that and get confused. The school suggests it may cause violence on campus from other gangs from the confusion.
“He was told not to wear it again,” Chad Balthazor said Thursday. “He was upset when he came home from school. A teacher sent him down to the office, but the reason he was wearing it was for his grandmother.”
A Minnesota high school student who wears rosary beads to school in support of his cancer-stricken grandmother was ordered to pocket them by school district officials, who said the beads could be a symbol of gang membership.
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The policy is too vague. They should just go ahead and ban all jewelry. Under that guideline, any piece of jewelry can "denotes membership in an organized gang.” So either ban it all or allow it all. Personally, you are not likely to convince me it wasn't a supposed separation of church and state thing rather than any real gang concern.
Gangs with rosary beads, get real.
It looks like a cute way to get around citing violation of church and state.