6th grader suspended for bring swimsuit SI

[MrRant 0]

A 12-year-old student at a Belpre, W.Va., school apparently has been suspended for bringing a copy of Sports Illustrated to school.

 

Of course, it wasn't just any old edition of the magazine.

 

Sixth-grader Justin Reyes was suspended for three days for bringing Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition to his public school, Pittsburgh TV station WPXI reported on its Web site on Monday.

 

Belpre City School District officials said sexually suggestive material is not allowed on school property.

 

"You saw bad stuff on the Super Bowl halftime show," Justin said. "You could see more on that than in [the magazine]."

 

A teacher confiscated the magazine and officials recommended Justin spend time at an alternative school. His mother, Nicole, refused, adding that she's outraged the school district considers the magazine to school a delinquent act, WPXI reported.

 

"That is not sexual harassment. I doubt my 12-year-old is the only one looking at Sports Illustrated," she was quoted as saying.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1742267

 

I can see taking the magazine away,that's perfectly acceptable IMO and giving it back after class. But suspending someone? Christ.

[Guest The Satanic Angel]

My brother was suspended the last two days of school for bringing a magazine in. I don't recall exactly which one it was. I'd remember if it was Playboy or something of the like. I think because it had an ad with scantily clad woman, it was considered offensive. He was in the sixth grade.

 

Children these days!

[2GOLD 0]

A SWIMSUIT ISSUE????

 

Get the hell out!

 

That's it, parents need a swift kick right in the ass.

[Guest Astro]

I got in trouble in Middle School for talking with my buddy about the porn we watched the night before. The school bus driver got pissed and reported me to the principal.

 

 

Me and this same friend got in trouble months later for calling a gay phone sex line and racking up a 78 dollar charge.

 

/not gay

[Jobber of the Week 0]

[Guest Astro]

/Concurs

[NoCalMike 0]

When I was in 8th grade Beavis & Butthead were in their prime and all the adults were still going through the "oh no, they are satan's minions" phase, much the way the Simpsons went through in the early days. So in english class I finished my assignment early, pulled out their book entitled, "this book sucks" and started flipping through it. The teacher came over to my desk and looked at the book, grabbed it from me, looked at the cover, and said, "put this in your backpack and don't ever bring this trash into my classroom again" I pretty much had to hold back my laughter.

[Guest Ghettoman]

You have to make fluff you know. It doesn't grow on trees.

 

Instead of writing it off as fluff, lets try and take it in a more serious discussion about maybe parents overprotecting there children or about where boundaries should be set between parents and school and who has the final say on an issue or maybe about how parents lack the ability to think back beyond the mistakes they have made and into that mindframe there childs in.

 

If it's fluff, it's because you've fluffed it. Remember that.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I remember I took the SI swimsuit issue to middle school about 8 years ago, but then again I was clever enough not to get caught.

[Dr. Tom 0]

A suspension is ludicrous here. Wow, boys that age are looking at the SI swimsuit issue. I know I was when I was in 6th grade. Taking it away is fine, and so is sending a note home saying that the mag should stay in dad's magazine rack, but a suspension? Incredible.

 

I went out to dinner Saturday, and the group of us were duscussing things that happen in schools these days, and how the administrations always overreact in a ridiculously PC fashion. This is another case of that.

[NoCalMike 0]

A suspension is ludicrous here. Wow, boys that age are looking at the SI swimsuit issue. I know I was when I was in 6th grade. Taking it away is fine, and so is sending a note home saying that the mag should stay in dad's magazine rack, but a suspension? Incredible.

 

I went out to dinner Saturday, and the group of us were duscussing things that happen in schools these days, and how the administrations always overreact in a ridiculously PC fashion. This is another case of that.

this is why, IMO, zero tolerance policies should be outright banned. They encourage NON-THINKING solutions, and just kind of throw a blanket over every situation.

[The Tino Standard 0]

A suspension is ludicrous here.  Wow, boys that age are looking at the SI swimsuit issue.  I know I was when I was in 6th grade.  Taking it away is fine, and so is sending a note home saying that the mag should stay in dad's magazine rack, but a suspension?  Incredible.

 

I went out to dinner Saturday, and the group of us were duscussing things that happen in schools these days, and how the administrations always overreact in a ridiculously PC fashion.  This is another case of that.

this is why, IMO, zero tolerance policies should be outright banned. They encourage NON-THINKING solutions, and just kind of throw a blanket over every situation.

Don't get me wrong, I think it was total bullshit that the kid got suspended, and if this ends up having any serious effect on his grades, I think his family could have a lawsuit on its hands.

 

But while I certainly don't think it's a problem to bring the swimsuit issue to school, I do have to ask: Where exactly do you draw the line?

 

Swimsuit issue? Fine. But if a kid shows up and starts showing off a copy of Hustler in homeroom, then you've got a bit of a problem on your hands.

[2GOLD 0]

This country is just crazy about making sure females are never nude and that people NEVER see nudity. I mean, stop it.

 

OMG KIDS WILL SEE BREASTS! OH NO!

 

Sixth grade, most of them have probably already copped a feel. I'd really like to know how the generation of the 60's, 70's and 80's actually ended up acting MORE insane than their parents.

 

That's just wild.

[JHawk 0]

The most annoying thing about this to me? This kid could go to any public swimming pool and...

 

*GASP*

 

...see beautiful women in swimsuits! And that's been true since before he ever knew what a swimsuit was.

 

What the fuck has this world come to when wearing a swimsuit is considered detrimental to society?

[Guest]

In other countries, it's nothing to see nudity on TV....

[Highland 0]

Other countries don't have censors that go hyperactive after seeing a (still) covered breast at the superbowl. That more than anything else shows how prudish and puritanical we are. Freedom of speech and expression indeed.

[MrRant 0]

Well don't you think the parents have some say in what their kids see or not? Technically your parents own you till you are 18.

[Styles 0]

Well don't you think the parents have some say in what their kids see or not? Technically your parents own you till you are 18.

And it appears the parents have no problem with the magazine. The appropriate action to take here would be to confiscate the magazine until after class, call the parents and let them he can't bring it again. Simple plan. It's SPORT ILLUSTRATED and its women in SWMISUITS. Like another poster said, he could go to the swimming pool or beach and see many people beautiful and otherwise wearing very little clothing. No one seems to object to bringing their kids to a beach or pool! And its a special of Sports Illustrated so its not illogical that a kid would have a subscrpition to the most popular sports magazine in the world that once a year publishes a swimsuit issue. If it was causing a distraction, a simple call asking not to bring it again would have solved it. Really even if it was Playboy I would say the same thing (although it would be a little odd if the parents didn't have a problem with that- but really, its SPORTS ILLUSTRATED). Suspension. Bah.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Kid these days...they just don't know how to properly get away with shit.

 

In sixth grade, I let this kid Pete have a copy of Cheri I took from my dad's closet. I even brought it INTO SCHOOL to give to him, and there were teachers walking by. Very discrete, though, as our lockers were next to each other. Handed it off to him in between classes, and he put it in his bag.

 

I didn't get caught for a hardcore porn mag. This kid gets caught with a swimsuit mag. Jesus fucking Christ, man. HIDE IT BETTER.

[MrRant 0]

Well don't you think the parents have some say in what their kids see or not?  Technically your parents own you till you are 18.

And it appears the parents have no problem with the magazine. The appropriate action to take here would be to confiscate the magazine until after class, call the parents and let them he can't bring it again. Simple plan. It's SPORT ILLUSTRATED and its women in SWMISUITS. Like another poster said, he could go to the swimming pool or beach and see many people beautiful and otherwise wearing very little clothing. No one seems to object to bringing their kids to a beach or pool! And its a special of Sports Illustrated so its not illogical that a kid would have a subscrpition to the most popular sports magazine in the world that once a year publishes a swimsuit issue. If it was causing a distraction, a simple call asking not to bring it again would have solved it. Really even if it was Playboy I would say the same thing (although it would be a little odd if the parents didn't have a problem with that- but really, its SPORTS ILLUSTRATED). Suspension. Bah.

If you read further up... I agree. However I do also think that parents have the right to block their kids from seeing porn, etc and not want the kids exposed to it.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I can't help but wonder if there's more to the story. Did the kid read it DURING class? Was he told repeatedly to put it away, and refused? It doesn't sound complete.

[Lightning Flik 0]

A suspension is ludicrous here. Wow, boys that age are looking at the SI swimsuit issue. I know I was when I was in 6th grade. Taking it away is fine, and so is sending a note home saying that the mag should stay in dad's magazine rack, but a suspension? Incredible.

 

I went out to dinner Saturday, and the group of us were duscussing things that happen in schools these days, and how the administrations always overreact in a ridiculously PC fashion. This is another case of that.

Hey, at least that kid had SI.

 

When I was in fifth grade, I got a book by Piers Anthony taken away. I believe the book was "A Spell For A Chameleon". I think I let out a giggle or something over some of the humor in the book. And my teacher demanded to know what I found so funny.

 

I had that taken away when he found out what I was reading, and I couldn't get it back to take it home. I politely asked for the book back after school (it wasn't my book, I knew my mom would flip when she heard this) and was told to go to the office. Oh, as for the book? I never got it back from the teacher. He told me he'd be keeping it, for a fitting punishment for bringing such "smut" (yes, that's what he called it) to class.

 

I then got a week suspension from the principal.

 

I got home and I told my mother (remember, it's her book) and she flipped out and literially bitched out my teacher in front of the class and then went right to the principal and did the exact same.

 

In the end I had my suspension lifted (same day), was allowed to read fantasy books during that reading time period that all fifth/sixth graders get, and on top of that, more kids actually brought the fantasy books to school now that they weren't in fear of having Mr. Censor busting our collective asses.

 

So in conclusion, I say teachers are the biggest censors ever.

[Guest MikeSC]

I can't help but wonder if there's more to the story. Did the kid read it DURING class? Was he told repeatedly to put it away, and refused? It doesn't sound complete.

Unless the kid was spanking it to the magazine, the punishment seems AWFULLY severe.

 

And God knows I'm not a leniency kind of guy.

-=Mike

[Guest Crazy Dan]

I think that the suspension was a little too overbaord. Was bringing the magazine to class appropriate? Of Course not. But I think that this should have warrant a confiscation of the magazine and a call to the parents. Also, making the kid write an article on one of the non-swimsuit articles, would have been a more appropriate punishment. But suspension, that is too much overacting. There are more better ways to show that bringing magazines of questionable contact is not appropriate for that age level. Non tolerance policies should be held to the extreme behavoirs. not the ones of a horny 6th grader, for which all males are guilty of. I mean, how many of you used to go through your Dad's hiding spots to find his dirty magazines? I know I did, so let's stop the overeacting and come up with more policies that address the matter on a case by case basis.

[sfaJack 0]

And God knows I'm not a leniency kind of guy.

Me either, but a suspension for this was ridiculous. Confiscating the magazine until the end of the day with a warning to not bring it back again would have sufficed.

 

I took a SI swimsuit issue to school once and nobody said a word about it, and my high school was run by a bunch of censorship-happy nazis.

[2GOLD 0]

Also, call the parents?

For what???

 

It's a damn SWIMSUIT issue. A SWIMSUIT!

If the kid walks through the mall he can see pictures of women in bra and panties in the window of Victoria Secret for god sake.

 

To call the parents cause their son was looking at a swimsuit issue. If I was his dad, I would have laughed my ass off at the teacher, took the magazine and handed it to my son right in front of the teacher. At least it's not the SEARS catalog.

 

Playboy and Hustler, yeah sure call the parents since some parents might have an issue with seeing nudity. Swimsuit issue or Maxim or any magazine where no nudity is seen, you ask the kid to PUT IT AWAY and after class ask them not to read it during class and be the end of it. But to take it away and suspend them is just pathetic.

And if you are a parent who has a problem with your child seeing a woman in a swimsuit....well I can't wait to see you on the news talking about your serial killer son and how good of a boy he was.

[Styles 0]

Jay Leno on this story: "So wait his punishment was to stay home for 3 days with the swimsuit issue? Why not lock him in the bathroom with it too, that will REALLY show him!"