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NH: Defending school photo, senior sticks to his gun
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"A Londonderry High School student whose photograph has been barred from the senior yearbook because it shows him holding a shotgun is taking his case to court, after rejecting a compromise offered by the school board."
"At a hearing last Tuesday, the board voted to keep the photograph of Blake Douglass out of the section of senior portraits. Instead, said chairwoman Anne Jacoby, the board offered to print the photo of Douglass holding a skeet shooting gun on a community sports page in the yearbook."
"'It is the connotation of violence that we object to,' Jacoby said in a telephone interview after the hearing. 'Not everyone is familiar with skeet shooting, and in today's society, post 9/11 and Columbine, we think that the right context for the picture is on a sports page.'" ... |
| Comment by:
porthos@ureach.com
(10/18/2004)
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| This kind of mindless, panty-wetting, gun-phobia rhetoric just kills me! I hope they have to spend so much money defending themsevles, the majority of their community comes together to vote them out of office!! >:-( |
| Comment by:
common_sense_rules@hotmail.com
(10/18/2004)
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The school board says they can't show him with his skeet gun because it connotates violence. However, they will show other students with their cars. Sorry, but I could make the claim that showing a student with a car implies that it's ok to drive drunk, or recklessly.
The school board needs to admit that Douglass' picture is valid, meets their stated guidelines, and print it in the seniors section of the yearbook. Otherwise, omit the entire seniors section of the yearbook; that way, nobody's sensitivities are bruised.
Stick to your guns, Blake - you are in the right all the way! |
| Comment by:
durantst@uvsc.edu
(10/18/2004)
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"Not everyone is familiar with skeet shooting, and in today's society, post 9/11 and Columbine, we think that the right context for the picture is on a sports page."
So we can't allow his photo because some people are too ignorant and stupid? Unbeleivable! |
| Comment by:
glensterville@yahoo.com
(10/18/2004)
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| as a pro-gun public school teacher (not many of us out there) who just finished a masters level school law course, the school board will get their lunch eaten on this case. funny how the liberal northeast which was the birthplace of our revolutionary spirit, is lost in the stupidity of political correctness and destruction of liberty. the founding fathers are spinning six feet under. franklin said that we have a republic if you can keep it. seems to slipping away in the northeast....and where are the rino politicians at the national level on this one???? |
| Comment by:
crazy8nolonger@aol.com
(10/18/2004)
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glensterville--
Your comments about the oh-so-sensitive-northeast really struck home.
You'd think that the further west you go, the more rugged individualism would prevail.
How to explain that present-day Kalifornians are the "sons of the pioneers"?? |
| Comment by:
swifty@hauns.com
(10/19/2004)
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crazy8,
Kommiefornia is just a northeastern state that got lost... |
| Comment by:
josephmatza@msn.com
(11/12/2004)
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| is skeet shooting an olympic sport? do some colleges offer scholarships for their skeet teams? do many high schools offer skeet shooting programs? do the boy scouts offer skeet shooting as an activity? i'd bet more high school students were injured or killed playing football than skeet shooting!! whats wrong with this school board? |
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