DISQUS

Sylvia Brown · 2 years ago

Discipline for wearing T-shirts? Don't you guys have anything better to do?

High school student · 2 years ago

our vice-principal is only cracking down on t-shirts and kids that wear braids... it's ridiculous...

Bill · 2 years ago

I want to give these kids props for imagination. I understand that the t's might not be appropriate for school, but the designs took some real thought!!

Ruth · 2 years ago

Why would any parent allow their teens to wear any of them at all knowing where drink leads. Oh forgive me-some parents really don't care, because it is their lifestyle, too.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I give no props for being unoriginal!! These ideas/designs were copied from a high school in Durham, that got regional/national attention a couple months ago. They should have been more creative! See link below.

http://www.9news.com/news/watercooler/article.a...

Bill · 2 years ago

Merrimack High had the Jack Daniel's t-shirts in 2005.
I'm sure it went before that too.

Jeff · 2 years ago

Very creative work. These kids could use this same talent and send positive messages out. It will enhance their own creativity and marketing abilities. Think about as a school fund raiser for a good cause. Make lemons into lemonaide!

a parent · 2 years ago

This is the moral decline of America! This is the reason why this country is in such terrible shape! This is the fault of a permissive liberal society, one where we allow our kids to do anything they please and.........

Just kidding, Litchfield is a great town with good kids.
These kids are being typical teenagers, looking for shock value, looking for attention. The parents ought to cuff them off the back of the head and use the teeshirts to as rags to wash their cars.

Parents, take the kids out for a sundae, have a talk with them, tell them that growing up means taking on responsibility.

JM · 2 years ago

i love these shirts. very creative AND school spirited!

Chuck · 2 years ago

OH MY GOD! Just reading the article makes me want to get drunk and high. What is wrong with you people! They are just words on a t-shirt, you bunch of PC nancy's! People need to lighten up a little bit. Everyone is so uptight these day's they squeak when they walk!

Matthew B. · 2 years ago

Funny stuff! Maybe the future will be alright after all! I'd happily send my kid to Litchfield, and buy his shirt for him!

Frankin Sarcasm · 2 years ago

1. Copy super-ultra-subversive wink-wink-tee-hee! T-Shirt designs from neighboring school district.
2. Sell shirts to lemming-like seniors who think getting hammered is an act of rebellion.
3. Attract attention of school admins who just stepped out of a John Hughes movie and local media who think they're writing for BBC World News and breaking a huge scandal.
4. ???
5. Profit!

otto · 2 years ago

This is one of those situations where you see the message if you are looking for it. There's no middle ground anymore, we have parents who don't care, or parents who are so zealously overprotective that their children probably wear helmets just to go get the mail from the end of the yard, at 15. I would buy these shirts, too. I would buy them just because they are creating a stir. If these shirts said something like, Class of 08, now let's get HIGH! I could see that upsetting everyone. The LSD shirt I can sort of understand, but the paw being the decimal in a shirt referring to alcohol blood level??? are you serious???? I'm still not even sure this article is not a joke.

bif · 2 years ago

Maybe they need to wear brown jumpsuits and walk all in a line, reciting the lords prayer.

Parent of a high schooler · 2 years ago

Good to see all the other student's problems have been solved, LSD! Good grief.... What's next? No braids? Hair coloring? Earrings? Tattoos? Long pants? Short pants? Purple socks on Thursdays? Young people need to express themselves, and older people should do so more often. And to think the administration derives from the generation when we freely smoked weed and humped like bunnies. So hypocritical and sad....

obbop · 2 years ago

Don't be misled...this is a liberal ploy to subvert young easily-influenced minds.

If allowed to continue the kids will not obey authority, any and all authority, and that is the most important thing our schools can teach.

If the liberals are allowed to continue their unAmerican activities what is to prevent those kids from becoming terrorists?

Schools MUST instill conservative values within our youth so as to maintain the status quo that so greatly benefits our elite class and corporate structure.

To do otherwise is proof positive that we do not support the troops.

"The unAmerican youth" · 2 years ago

You don't know the first thing about kids do you? Our youth becoming terrorists? Are you kidding me!? Okay joker, here's something to ponder on for a while. You actually crack me up! I do agree with the school system needing to install values in the school system. BUT, how are we ever going to install good morals in the school, when we have school teachers, (probably from your era, just a guess) having sexual contact with kids that are anywhere from 13-17 years old? Our youth has very little to look up to these days. So, if you want to reach the top of the chain, and do something about these youth, speaking their mind, why don't you start posting this crap at the bottom of the ladder? We need to clean up your era first, so our youth can actually have someone to look up to! As of right now, I am happy to live with, fight for, as well as be considered, one of todays youths, then to follow and/or preach for another generation, that's just a wrong if not, WORSE, than our generation is. Thanks for providing me with something I felt so strongly about, to actually leave a message. Hopefully this opened your eyes, that it's not necessary to try and pound this into our youths head, because the more you do, the more they are going to continue to rebel against you, just to prove you wrong. I think our youth is just as healthy as it was 20 years ago.

obbop · 2 years ago

Hath thou ever confronted a writing style known as "scarcasm"?

It seems rather obvious it is in use.

obbop · 2 weeks ago

I understand your reply is likely based upon an extremely small amount od self-awareness and awareness of the subject matter with a dollop of limited reading comprehension abilities tossed into the mixture.

Obbopp · 2 years ago

"Maybe they need to wear brown jumpsuits and walk all in a line, reciting the lords prayer."

That is an excellent idea!!!!!!

We need school administrators with your attitude and belief.

As every right-thinking AMerican knows, there is no USA without God.

Murph · 2 years ago

" with "08 Pushing the Limit" proceeded by a little paw."

Don't you mean 'preceded'?

???????? · 2 years ago

One question... would a similar set of shirts of a not-so-subtle nature featuring religious references be banned at this school as well? Whats the difference.

Andrea · 2 years ago

I graduated in 1999. Live farm animals wandering the halls were not an uncommon occurance. Beer bottle caps in our vehicles (we got suspended for the bottles) so the drug dogs would "hit" on our cars and get usout of class. To top it all off, it was the class council and NHS that orchistrated everything.

T-shirts. Please.

JRED · 2 years ago

When will America get over the Nanny-state? Don't they realize that by making an issue out of it they then are turning all the attention on it.

FL · 2 years ago

Absolutely true. Look at the 2 Live Crew issue. They took an obscure CD that was obscene, made a big deal about it, which fueled the publicity so much that the CD made platinum status and their main cut even made Casey Kasem's "American Top 40"...where if it weren't for someone making a stink about it, it would have fallen into obscurity.

Josh · 2 years ago

Kids being kids? What's next?!

g · 2 years ago

And next they will be forced to ware crosses

JC · 2 years ago

Holy cow, you mean to tell me that high schoolers drink, smoke and use drugs?! Say it ain't so!

I'll give it to the kids, those are some very creative shirt ideas and I'm sure they're not surprised that the Admins are frowning upon it.

I'll bet the kids even spelled everything right on the shirts.

so tired · 2 years ago

Shirts like this have been created and worn by highschool students for the last 30 years, and most of us turned out just fine. Thes kinds of bans do nothing but deepen the perceived rebellious aspect of drugs and alcohol to youth thereby making them more attractive. If no administrator gave a crap about these t-shirts, they wouldn't seem so cool to students.

MeMyselfandI · 2 years ago

I think the people in charge of this school have forgotten how we, as teens has shirts with things like "wrap your ass in fiberglass"{a corvette shirt } and many other slogans printed on them.We were looked at funny but never made to change them. The people in charge are in my opion a bunch of middle aged tight assed morons who like to make stupid rules because somewhere down the line, someone was hatefull to them.Leave the kids alone and spend more time on things like teaching or spending the money given to the schools to fund things that help kids learn and let them wear what they like.Remember, you were a teen one time too.

kloudancer · 2 years ago

First remove the plank from your own eye before you attempt removing the sliver from your neighbors......I think that's how it goes. The tees are very creative, and funny! And I'm a responsible adult making this comment.

Paul · 2 years ago

Another clueless vice-principal who doesn't have enough to do.

bug · 2 years ago

Hmm...sounds like what my Green Bay high school did ten years ago with our yearbook...Class of '98 "What A Trip" on a blue tie-dyed cover. Administration and the class president wouldn't let it fly, so instead the yearbook artists came up with some pretty inventive endpaper illustrations that referenced beer and weed. Ten years on, and I think the majority of us lead normal, productive lives.

Alice · 2 years ago

I can't believe how dense some of these responses are. The issue is simple: T-shirts that promote drug or alcohol use are not permitted in a SCHOOL. The school is showing consistency and not allowing the T-shirts because they violate an established policy. If the kids want to wear them outside of SCHOOL, ie the remaining 17 hours in a day, no one is stopping them.

Adult · 2 years ago

I agree with Alice.

Yes, I was a rebellious kid too. Yes, I wore inappropriate t-shirts too. But these kids' JOB right now is to go to school and get an education. What would happen if you showed up to your job in clothing that violated your workplace dress code? An inappropriately short skirt, low-cut blouse, or torn pants? Your boss would reprimand you, and if you continued, you'd get fired. The administration is simply teaching the students that there is a time and a place for shirts like this. I'd rather have my kids learn that lesson in school than get fired later on in life and use the excuse "I never knew ..."

Save the shirt for hanging out with your friends after school, or on the weekend, where admittedly, it IS creative and funny. But just as it's not appropriate in the workplace, it's not appropriate at school, IMHO.