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The payment was not actually about editing the photo - it was about the school blaming one of their teachers for editing it, when it was ordered as a mandate from the principal, resulting in a massive backlash against the teacher from a majority Trump-voting community when it made headlines four years ago. The teacher was suing the school for damages, not for "censorship".
I agree.
If it's a public school, it could be grounds for a First Amendment lawsuit. That is, if they ban students from wearing clothes with political speech on them.
Huh I keep forgetting America has random rules for school uniforms without being actual school uniforms.The simplest way would be to just ban shirts with words or pictures on them in their dress code. Our local school district has banned everything except two colored collared shirts and slacks without pockets.
Because that's exactly what a low income school district needs, is more clothing dictates on already struggling parents...
Not going to lie, this was a huge burden off my chest when I took my kids out of public schools(one for Covid, the other permanently).
I don’t think my uniform cost more than 20 bucks a year, really. You had the option of buying from the school itself. Or just getting a cheap 2 dollar polo in the school colours and iron on the school crest. I honestly think the annual school levy fees cost more than all my uniforms combined. And I came from a pretty low income family.
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Ahh but it is with limitations that true creativity blossoms. Think of all the writers and directors out there who worked really well on something with oversight from their studio, only to flounder after being given more leeway and budget. Because the discipline was gone, they were allowed to do anything and they were lostI've heard those who grow up with them don't mind them so much. My eldest son never did. My younger struggles with pants, period. And by struggles with pants, I mean, he can't keep them up. Belt doesn't do it for him, either. Elastic works, but its hard to find in approved school pants. Not impossible, but difficult.
It sounds horrifying to me, probably because I didn't grow up with it. I wasn't accustomed to it. And I hated school anyways, so if there had been a uniform shift in my day, it probably would have been one more negative factor for school. (Despite having good grades, I had severe social anxiety, making functioning comfortably in a group atmosphere very difficult.)
I think for me, the creativity regarding clothing was a bit more than "but this is me, man! You can't suppress me!" I was/am fascinated with clothing. I would design clothes(I actually had a teacher who took a few of my pictures for her seamstress), was fascinated with costumes, and drawing designs with my make up. My high school art teacher tried to convince me to devote a semester to putting together outfits and photographing them(but I unwisely declined; I wanted to learn to paint, which I ended up hating). Working within the limits of a uniform would have been.... like the food prep class being confined to a microwave(I hear it is now.
Depends on the microwave. You can actually legitimately use various settings to get desired results. That’s what they were originally supposed to be for. To bake anything and everything but safer and faster. There are a myriad of settings you can use to great affect.
There are entire cookbooks dedicated to “getting the most out of your microwave.”