Student Banned From High School Yearbook For Making Funny Face

There was no gang sign and the school is out of line here. I love her photo i think its funny and shows the spirit of this teen. The school needs to get a grip

"GANG SIGNS" ARE THE BIGGEST SCAMS SCHOOL ADMINS USE. schools try to ban most clothes as "gang related." The Osborn District in Phoenix in 1992 spent $250,000 of tax money trying to expel a preacher's son goody-goody for "gang activities" MERELY for wearing a used $1 Michael Jordan cartoon tee because it had a quarter-sized Bulls logo that the POLICE & PRINCIPAL claimed was a gang symbol---Absurd-;--that logo was on ONE BILLION TV sets in the summer of '92 when Pippin & Jordan played on the U.S. Olympic BB team. STOP FEARING GANGS THIS way---you cannot ban foir good kids everything that gang members ALSO wear or use---think Coca Cola, underwear and automobiles!!!! Schools are giving control to the gangs that way. It is absurd and MUST STOP/ Gary Klahr J..D., Phoenix

She was being an Idiot and got caught thatst all

I think what the girl did was acceptible. Yes, there should be a limit to what they allow in the year book. Meaning, If a student DID gesture a gang sign or display anything innoproriet I agree that they have the right to pull the picture out of the year book. Although, In this case all she did was smile wide! No reason to exclude her picture.

it sure seems funny that we are suppose to be the LAND OF THE FREE and suppose to have FREEDOM OF SPEECH so is it me or has anyone else noticed how controlling our society has gotten.

Charlie, you are a beautiful woman. Don’t change for anybody!

This is a copy of my email to Charlie Patton’s principal (and I use the term loosely), Hopefully he will be mature enough to wise up and not cause anyone anymore problems. Please tell them how you feel and hopefully they will care.

comwww.neisd.net/madison/administration/administrators.html


The way you have treated Charlie Patton is disgusting. Especially having not even given her the chance/choice to have her picture retaken. If I were her and I WAS given the chance to have my picture retaken, I would refuse to grace your yearbook with my likeness. I would be embarrassed and ashamed, at this point, to admit that I attended your school. If this matter was taken to court, you would have the burden of proof. Show me evidence that Charlie's FUNNY, HAPPY SHINING face has ever been displayed by gang members. Of course, now that you have put the idea out there, It could become just that! How about putting YOUR gang like mentality on the shelf and pay to have all the yearbooks redone (If they have already been printed or put the picture in if they have not yet been printed) and let that BEAUTIFUL, HAPPY, WONDERFUL, CHEERFUL face properly, positively, and proudly represent your school.
Cindy age 48

When I was in high school you were allowed to be youself or whoever you wanted others to precieve you to be. Since then there are uniforms and extreme dress code rules and even rules that make students conform to act as if they are a preconcieved mold of their classmates. This makes me wonder if in our near future schools will ban history and social studdies classes from teaching the chapters on free speech. In a world where we have come so far as to have an African American president it sickens me that a little girl entering a large new school trying to be "heard" thru a picture in a yearbook would be censored. Much less the school trying to claim that this child was using a gang sign is obsurd. Not only is it rediculous it is slander and If the student were of any other ethnicity I do not believe that that comment would have ever been associated with the student.

You got to be kidding me.I would sue the school over free speech issues.Nothing more than a cute little kid having some fun.Omg what has America come to.If that in any way has anything to do with gang related issues then Im the man in the moon.

I love her photo, it does not offend anyone. The admins need to remove whatever is sticking up their ass and put her silly photo in the yearbook.

LOL I agree what exactly is the "gang sign" in her picture! I agree it's not the most appealing picture and I don't want to see her mouth open when looking at a picture, but hey the kid was happy and it's her picture. WHO CARES! As long as she isn't wearing inappropriate clothes, showing too much skin, or giving the finger, AND her mom is okay with it then what's the problem. We need to stop raising our children as if they are glass tables and start raising them as granite counter tops. Seriously we are so afraid to hurt our childrens feelings that we are doing more harm then good!

Thats the problem with today's board of educations in the USA..and why our students are ranking so low compared to their peers globally. The board of education cares not to change out dated boring - meaningless cirriculums, but would rather prefer you look the way they did some 40 years ago! Maybe today's year books should also go back to black and white photo's, I'll bet that would also please them old pompus arse fuddyduddies. Maybe it's time for todays students to begin protesting against their local Board of Education and demand better, no - up date to the class room subjects that will better prepare them to compete after graduation. Your boring them to tears! Advancements in today's technology is much more important for them to learn and keep them interested than appearances in yearbooks!

that is not a gang sign put her picture in year book

The bottom line is, the school is Wrong!

I have a 3 year old little girl and I hope she has the same spunk! Stand up for your rights. I believe the school administrators need to get a life and deal with the REAL problems.

Honestly! My daughter's senior picture was barefooted. All this school control business is completely without any common sense anymore. Where will this stop?

YES, HER PICTURE SHOULD COME OUT.....SHE MERELY SHOWING OFF. GIVE HERE ANOTHER CHANCE, BUT THAT'S IT.

Thanks to Dobson, so many uptight conservatives, et. al., our kids are told when to breathe, in and out. Kids are often being taught to be perfect little foot soldiers, with little time to develop their own identity and no chance to develop critical thinking skills.

Charlie, authorty figures are to be respected, but not always trusted. Stay true to yourself. You know right from wrong. Never let some judgemental lame brain convince you you're not good enough.

Do the school know what a gang sign look like i bet the school allow male students to walk around with there pants sagging and but they would not let a student take a picture with a big smile wow it her pic let people take there pic the way they want be for real

Showing teeth is a sign that someone is willing to bite. Everyone in the school should wear a “silence of the lamb” mask to show they don’t have aggressive behaviors.
Anyone can spout nonsense, I just did. School policy states that the students have the option to have their pictures taken free of charge. If they did so, she refused to modify her mug, I think the school would be on solid ground. The present situation sounds like a million dollar lawsuit the school would lose. People are being shot because they wear the wrong color shirt. I have no idea how that translates into gang signs, but until it happened, I didn’t know the color of a shirt was important in saving your life. In the name of safety, asking her to retake her picture makes sense to me. Have they done so by now?