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"Students do not shed their rights at the school house door". Chief Justice Earl Warren in Tinker vs DeMoines Central School District 1969 concerning the legality of students wearing black arm bands as a silent protest of the Vietnam War.

As a teacher I can SEE & EMPATHIZE with both sides BUT this is a "Fuck your feelings" issue for me; free, unfettered & robust protections for free speech are primary & paramount over some alleged potential "bullying".

I KNOW these kids. They DGAF & have a "live and let live" attitude. This is the PARENTS & SCHOOL BOARD getting involved where they don't need to be.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna194212

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a Massachusetts student's challenge to his middle school’s prohibition on his wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “There are only two genders.”

The case arose from student Liam Morrison’s dispute with Nichols Middle School in Middleboroug. Lawyers for Morrison at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, say students were “bombarded” with messages promoting the view “that sex and gender are self-defined, limitless, and unmoored from biology.”

Morrison believes that view is “false and harmful,” and he responded in March 2023 when he was in the seventh grade by wearing the T-shirt. After he was told to remove it, he later wore another shirt that said, “There are [censored] genders.”

Morrison was not punished for wearing the shirts, although he was told he could not wear them in class and was sent home when he refused to remove the first one.

This case presents an issue of great importance for our nation's youth: whether public schools may suppress student speech either because it expresses a viewpoint that the school disfavors or because of vague concerns about the likely effect of the speech on the school atmosphere or on students who find the speech offensive,".

I was talking to a girl and she found out that I was going out of the country for few days on a business trip. So we dated and she told me that could I bring her two bottles of expensive foreign liquor that you can't import. Meaning there's no company selling it from that country but if your bring it back it's perfectly okay. So after I gave her the two bottles next day she blocks me and ghosts.

I feel like the only reason we dated what so she can get those bottles. In this case do you think I should send her the receipts and ask her to pay me back using the present conversion rates? I really feel used and angry.

So I’ve known my friend for a year through college classes, but we’ve only been friends since December, along with 2 other people. The first semester we met she had a boyfriend and I was getting over a serious 2-year crush so wasn’t interested in a relationship, but I knew I wanted to be her friend. I asked her, but she said no to being friends cause of her boyfriend. I was a little disappointed, but accepted it. The next semester we met again and started talking and hanging out more before our classes. I wasn’t going to be friends with her since I remembered she had a boyfriend and said no, but then I found out she had broken up with him and decided there wouldn’t be any harm in asking again if she wanted to be friends. Around this time I also noticed I was developing feelings for her. I emailed her saying I enjoyed spending the two semesters with her and asked her if she wanted to be friends and gave her my number in case she did. Few minutes later I got a text from her that said and I quote “I really enjoyed spending the semesters with you too and I’d love to be friends with you!” Since then we’ve been texting all the time, but haven’t been able to hang out since becoming friends cause we’ve both been busy. I want to tell her I like her and got her a Valentine’s present (a mug that says “you’re the best” and a small box of chocolates). I’ve read/heard that it’s better to get your feelings out in the open asap, but we’re also still getting to know each other, so should I go ahead with telling her I like her or wait a bit and do I still give her the Valentine’s gift?