<p>At the local HS kids have tshirts made every year to indicate their rising status on the last day of school. Each grade has a school color: freshman/white, sophomores/silver, jrs/blue, seniors/black. They are usually witty and funny but sometimes controversial. This past year the class of '08 had a saying with something like " 08 approaching the legal limit." The kids were banned from wearing them at school and made to cover them with sweatshirt or sent home. This year D’s class had two shirts they could order. One had Black Power with a clenched fist and the other had this saying:
“Sofa King Hun Forget Table” on the front and " Scene Yours" on the back. (Think Catch Phrase ;)) Hmmmm…when the kids got to school this am the teachers were barricading entrances and no admittance was granted to kids wearing the shirts. They had to change, go home with unexcused absence or change. What do you think?</p>
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IMO, it’s pretty raunchy, especially the front of the shirt. At any of the schools D & S were/are at (public & private) this would be a dress code violation.</p>
<p>I think the seniors got the precise reaction they were hoping for. I’d say that creating shirts that are then banned is a “badge of honor” for the class and the shirt’s creators.</p>
<p>So what about the other shirt? They were also banned.</p>
<p>Wow. I’m such an innocent that I don’t even get it. And I used to have the dirtiest mind I know.</p>
<p>OK, wait. I think I get it now. Pretty lame, if you ask me. Yeah, send them home. Still don’t get the “scene yours” part. Except, just “seen yours”?</p>
<p>LOL! Seniors!!! </p>
<p>And now that I think of it I’m pretty sure the '08 was “pushing it to the limit.” I thought it was clever, also, but I get the anti-drinking thing in HS.</p>
<p>I would like to hear why others thought the black power shirt should be banned.</p>
<p>I think the 08 one is at least clever. I wouldn’t have banned that one, unless there had been a horrible drunk-driving accident or something.</p>
<p>A similar 08 shirt was banned at a hs near here.</p>
<p>Our “Hungry, why wait, grab a freshman” shirts were banned, as were our “We Run This Mother” shirts. A few people in my class had been printing off school shirts (not controversial, just the student section’s nickname on the front and a little motto thing on the back) for three years at that point and they had the most “official” and widely worn senior shirts, that had out student section’s name on the front and “Game Over” on the back.</p>
<p>A few people had “F*** (Principles Name)” shirts made but they weren’t particularly clever so we don’t really count them.</p>
<p>edit: We really liked making shirts.</p>
<p>A few years ago some graduating seniors had shirts made to “honor” the principlal. His first name was Richard and the shirts had " We (heart) @#ck!". Yeah…those were banned ASAP! I am amazed at some of the things these kids think up so quickly! I don’t have that creative gene!</p>
<p>my daughters shirt- which I didn’t really even " get" for a while used the bulldog image that the other school shirts do.
She has worn it to school ( I don’t know how many the kids had made) & I didn’t notice it till wash day.
On the hem of the shirt it says " 2008 Garfield girls "
on the back it has the bulldog and across it reads something like " giving the dawgs a bone" since 2004</p>
<p>I don’t understand why they would ban a black power shirt unless someone equated it with a KKK shirt- but just saying" black power" isn’t the same IMO
At Ds graduation last night- they sung the " black national anthem" I didnt’ even know there * was* one!</p>
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<p>SPEW!!! That is funny! My warped sense of humor is in rare form today!</p>
<p>I feel like a total dweeb, but, in spite of studying them for some time, I do not understand even ONE of these slogans/sayings. Totally clueless. How could anyone “forget” a table, considering how big the things are. It’s not like a set of keys or your brown bag lunch that you walk out door in the morning and forget about…would someone mind explaining?</p>
<p>I sort of understand giving a dog a bone (I think), but, not really…</p>
<p>I’m so retro.</p>
<p>I thought “Rising Seniorclass Shirts” meant a problem with too much belly-button/midriff skin area showing!</p>
<p>Run it together - and think creative spelliing, with different spacing between letters.</p>
<p>LOL someone sent to me a PM, and, I finally got it. Hilarious, I was trying to figure out what in the world a forgotten table would have to do with anything and why anyone would ban such a shirt. LOLOL.</p>
<p>Back in May, seniors at a Livonia, Mi. high school wore T-shirts that read “Puschin’ It To The Limit” and the back read “Class of .08 Seniors”. The school administrators decided to suspend the seniors for a day because the T-shirts sent the wrong message about underage drinking. Parents were interviewed on the local news and thought it was just a joke and that the school officials were over-reacting.</p>
<p>A week later, a 16 year old sophomore at the same school drove while drunk and killed a 20 year old man and seriously injured his fianc</p>
<p>Breaking news: The 16 year old student has just been charged as an adult with second degree murder for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The Wayne County prosecutor charged the defendant was driving under the influence at speeds up to 109 mph when the accident occurred that killed a 20 year old Westland, Mi. man and seriously injured his fianc</p>
<p>Let me spell it out “so F__cking Unforgettable”</p>
<p>I don’t get the ‘black power’. I do think that anything with race ought not to be on a t-shirt.</p>
<p>I hope they convict the idiot. No second chances for stupid to the max behavior. Drinking, driving fast = idiot at ANY age. I only wish every person could not be so selfish as to partake of that behavior. I have no sympathy for an IDIOT.</p>