Smells like Bullshait.
No name of the school, an anonymous post by a friend of a friend.
Yeah…sure.
Come back with a school name then we’ll talk.
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That is the idea. They have other stuff to concentrate on. Also, if you’re saying there’s not a vast qualitative difference between MLP / Muppets and any DC / Marvel story, I feel you’re not being honest with me here.
I will admit I didn’t see the violence in the image right away, but she could be strangling her golden lasso to death?
No wait, maybe she is stepping on a grasshopper with those sweet boots.
Whatever it is, ban this sick filth.
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Hypnotoad lunch box needed here.
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What about a real-world superhero, Edward Snowden?
Guaranteed to be violence-free.
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What about pictures of people who solve their hunger problems by violently consuming other living things?
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Paging Dr. Lecter
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Oh wait, you are saying there is a nuance in difference between the violence in the different shows?
Thanks for making my point.
But both are violent. Hell, MLP Equestira Girls ends with them fighting a demon. Either the world is black and white or it isn’t. Either you blindly ban it all, or you make decisions based on context.
It appears with this lunch box, they are just blindly banning it all.
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That explains it…
At first I thought that perhaps she was kicking some butt on the sides of the box, but it looks like there are just more pics of WW…
Edit: oops, different box
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Ban it all, then. School staff have better things to do than vet lunchboxes. Jiminy Crickets - White people and the stuff they need to complain about.
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Sure - as well as practically everybody else who has ever lived. Except for Saprophytes, Jains, and Met-rx eaters.
Same argument can be used for “allow it all”. It’s just a lunchbox, after all.
I wonder, would they allow an army-green one with stenciled “MEAL READY TO EAT” label, or would such direct war reference also be “too violent”?
So many opportunities to prod the system, to rile up the petty bureaucrats…
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I was just about to write along these lines and your post showed up. If you don’t want to vet lunch boxes, then don’t. Rather than ban it all, allow it all and if there’s a problem, address the problem.
I see this as an extension of our overly legalistic everything is lawsuit worthy culture. In the old days, if something caused a problem the teachers or principal could just deal with it, and maybe a parent had a problem but they would be told tough cookies. Now, there has to be Official Policy That Covers Everything so that when someone is upset and might sue because their Precious Little Flower didn’t get their way, they can point to The Official Policy That Covers Everything and claim Procedures Were Followed. It’s the ultimate triumph of bureaucracy over social norms and common sense discretion.
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Based on this “logic” my vintage 1963 King Thermos “Orbit” lunchbox would have to be banned, given that the Atlas first stage depicted on the side was originally designed to launch nuclear payloads into space.
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Step 1. Enact a “ban” on a kid’s sweet vintage lunchbox.
Step 2. Wait for kid to bring their lunch to school in their sweet vintage lunchbox.
Step 3. Confiscate sweet vintage lunchbox.
SWEET VINTAGE LUNCHBOX ACQUIRED!!!
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Emphasis mine. You have accurately and concisely stated the exact attitude that created the problem.
People want things to be simple, so they throw down overly broad, black & white rules - like the rule that no children can ever get into a teacher’s car (that resulted in sopping wet, bathing-suit clad students standing in freezing parking lots during fire drills) and the rule that everyone must be signed in at the office before entering the school (which resulted in school lockdown and SWAT team deployment when a mother received a panicked call from a teacher regarding her disabled son).
And when confronted with the results of their action, it seems like most people double down - it’s the kid’s fault for not grabbing clothes and a towel on the way out, it’s the mom’s fault for rushing past the sign-in desk, it’s never the fault of zero tolerance. If those people would just follow the rules, they wouldn’t end up with their children in jail, see?
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Doing a little digging… I found a Reddit thread discussing it. A comment from the person whose friends got the letter claims that it’s a private school.
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It’s a public school (right?) so I’m already assuming there’s no mention of Jesus. Since he’d be banned under this, as well (money-changers in the temple, and all that).
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Not sure what race as to do with it - but yeah, F’ it. Who needs thought and rational? We can just be told what to think and go with the flow.
Pick up that can.
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This is what happens when you give people with tiny minds a little bit of power.
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