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Schools ban 'boobies' braceletsMove it, Silly Bandz. There's another rubber bracelet getting students into trouble at schools. Middle and high school students in South Dakota and central and northern California have been facing possible suspension and have had to remove their controversial bracelets that read “I heart boobies."In Rocklin, California, a high school sophomore could be suspended after he refused to hand over a black bracelet with the bosom-embracing slogan, according to CNN affiliate KXTV. The 15-year-old said he wore the black bracelet because his grandmother died from breast cancer. He told the station that he owns various bracelets as a show of support– including the well-known yellow Livestrong bracelet and the pink survivor bracelet from Susan G. Komen For the Cure. Another school district in California does not allow students to wear the bracelets in class because its dress code specifically prohibits 'sexually suggestive language or images.' "That is why jewelry with sexually suggestive language like 'boobies' is not allowed on our campuses,” wrote Kelly Avants, the director of communications at the Clovis Unified School District. “Please understand that the issue is related specifically to the choice of language on these bracelets and the fact that it specifically violates our existing dress code policy.” The school district supports worthy causes like breast cancer awareness in different activities such as T-shirt sales and volleyball matches, Avants added. Students wearing the bracelets have been asked to remove them until the end of the school day. The schools in California are not the only ones asking students to leave the rubber bracelets at home. USA Today reported on a similar controversy in schools in South Dakota. “We understand that some people find ‘I love boobies’ offensive,” said Kimmy McAtee, the spokeswoman for the Keep A Breast Foundation, the non-profit that makes the school contraband. “Many others find it refreshing in the sea of pink ribbons. We’re really taking a positive style of communication and taking something scary and taboo, and making it positive and upbeat.” Keep A Breast has sold more than 2 million bracelets, she said. The bracelets proclaiming love for breasts began five years ago and started becoming controversial in February as kids started wearing them to school. The buzz died down during the summer and picked back up when school started, McAtee said. “Tell kids they’re not allowed to wear something, they’ll buy five of them,” she said. The slang doesn’t offend Donna Charpied, a two-time breast cancer survivor who had a double mastectomy in 2006. “I think everybody loves boobies,” Charpied, of Manorville, New York, said. “If the end result is a positive thing for the cause, that’s a good thing. I don’t find it offensive at all.” Read more about Charpied. The bracelets are meant to reach youth. “We feel the best ways to prevent cancer is to start young and to educate them at that age when they’re developing breasts and starting to learn about bodies,” McAtee said. Tweens challenged by grown-up malady: Breast cancer Surely some of the kids are wearing the bracelets to get a giggle, instead of spreading breast cancer awareness, McAtee conceded. "If it gets the conversation started, we’ve done our part,” she said.
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The reason kids make such a big fuss about boobies is because our society makes breasts taboo. Instead, we should be teaching them that breast are a part of the human body and provide nutrition to babies, instead we sexualize them and tell society that they are taboo and should not be discussed.
Thank god we arent' talking about Prostate or OvarianCancer here. This is an outright assault on our first amendment rights. They have been so watered down by thos who "wish not to be offended" that we are no longer able to creatively and effectively express ourselves out of fear of the inevitability that someone will be offended. Is this student being suspended because the bracelet is explicit or is the school sending a messag ethat they have the inability (and thus cannot impart the ability) to think critically and discern the bigger message from the method of delivery? I for one will proudly wear a "save the baby-maker" t-shirt and damn those who are offended. use your head and turn it if you don't like what i have to say, it's my right to say it. Oh, and here's an idea, if you are offended, don't whine, come up with a counter argument... See how good that free speech thing feels?
If you don't like adhering to a dress code or a standard of behavior or insisting that your kids do so, then home-school your precious special little darlings or send them to a private school that will allow their "specialness" to be exalted.
The rest of us will continue to live in the real world where others' feelings are also respected and where decorum means something.
I have teenagers and to the people who are posting that teens today don't care about breast cancer research, you are out of touch. Teens today have far more information on hand then we did at the same age. Your child might not care about reserach but mine would love to be old enough to do the 3 day walk. I know plenty of teenagers that chomp at the bit to make a difference in the world. So please don't stereotype all teenagers as a bunch of immature people who are just wearing the bracelet it to cause a stir.
tits sounds better
My 16 year old daughter has one of those braclets. You know how many people have asked her about what it means? She explains its meaning, what its for and who it helps. People are always asking her where can they get one. It hasn't offended anyone that we are award of. Maybe schools should worry more about things like, i dont know, failing test scores, teachers that can teach, getting kids ready for college, bullying. It's a distraction because they made it so. At least it has people talking about breast cancer! I LOVE BOOBIES!!!
I'm a 2x survivor, wear the bracelets with pride. Save the ta-tas (my kids love it when I wear that shirt!)
I'm happy you are a survivor. However, your kids' enjoyment of your wearing a 'boobies' t-shirt is irrelevant. You can do whatever you like in your home or the mall. If your employer (should you be employed) approve, you're certainly welcome to wear it in your workplace. However, the school is NOT your workplace and you don't get to decide unilaterally what kids will or will not be allowed to wear there. The rights of the school community and all those who work and learn there trump the rights of any individual to do what he/she pleases if his or her actions are counteractive to learning and order.
Don't like it? Send you kid elsewhere. You don't have the right to disrupt or distract others just because you're the survivor of a disease.
I teach high school and the kids have been wearing these since last year. I have not ONCE heard a giggle or so much as a word spoken about the "boobie" bracelets. They wear them, boys and girls, amoungst the countless other bracelets they wear up and down both arms to express what they love, support and believe in: Tsunami Relief, Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong bracelet; Twilight; Team Jacob//Team Edward; I Love to Read, etc. NOW that school officials are freaking out about them...they are talked about. Before they were just another bracelet in the sea of bracelets. Way to go.
America home of the whiners ..in these days we have Americans that are being politically correct and are stomping free speech ! these are not real americans but traitors to the revolution of 1776 and the constitution , some of them are baby boomers who tought they were cool in the 1960s but then became the same people they despised , many of these morons where born beetween the 1940s-1970s , they are offended by everything and like to rule with a iron fist , Americans these days are a shame and our forefathers would shake their heads in shame....Like cmon all these issues in the school system and you concentrate your efforts TO BAN SOME BRACELETS !!! ....and some of you even bring your "morals " as a justification lol amazing
Hey, kid, shut up and learn to write. Your post is laughable.
Amen MinneapolisMom, You are right on the money.
My mother died of breast cancer when I was 10. If I had seen my classmates wearing that bracelet, I am sure at the time, I would have found it very painful. It seems a very flippant way to treat something that is so devastating. It seems to me that if these students are truly interested it supporting worthy cause, they would be just as willing to wear a pink bracelet.
My mother is a breast cancer survivor and I find the bracelets funny. Sometimes, for some people, the best way not to cry is to laugh. I am sorry about your Mother. Best wishes to you.
Wow, Tammy. Way to blow off someone else's feelings. You're a real peach, you know that?
I suspect Tammy, that had you lost your mother at the age of 10 you wouldn't have found too much to laugh about. This includes a bunch of kids wearing this bracelet, most of whom couldn't even begin to imagine what you had gone through, for shock value. At my age now (30's), the bracelets don't evoke the kind of emotions that they would have back then. I imagine, however, that there are some children today who have lost a parent to cancer (as well as cancer survivors) who find those bracelets a slap in the face.
Somehow, I doubt Tammy has much capacity for empathy.
You have my deepest sympathy, chewwie. I cannot imagine losing a mother at the age of 10. I still ache from the loss of mine to kidney cancer, and I was over 50 when she died. Bet kids wouldn't be nearly as excited to wear bracelets about colon or kidney cancer, would they? That's because most of them couldn't care less about cancer. They just like boobies.
Schools have gone overboard. They are worried about a simple rubber bracelet, yet bullying runs amok at most middle and high schools. Schools proclaim their no tolerance policy, yet is is never enforced with any effort until someone really gets hurt. Hey school officials – can we have a reality check here and get some common sense. Lay off the minor thinks like rubber bracelets and start enforcing to no tolerance for violence policies on a daily basis.
Yeah, brilliant comment, dear. Just exactly how should the schools do that?
Go ahead and enlighten all of us with your tremendous insight, honey.
Surely, you have the solution to all the problems schools face, don't you? What's stopping you from sharing them?
Dipshit.
I lost my beautiful sister two years ago to this horrible disease called Breast Cancer, six days after her 53rd birthday. She lived a very healthy life, never smoked, never drank alcohol; ate all the right foods, exercised regularly and was considered the epitome of health. Not once during her 3 year illness, did she find anything offensive in any product that brought attention to the disease. She saw a bumper sticker that said "Save the Ta-Tas" and asked me if that was a bird on the verge of extinction. I almost wrecked my car with her in it, because I was laughing so hard. I told her it was another way to get out the message about Breast Health/Breast Cancer and asked, if she as a survivor (at the time) was offended by that. Not only was she not offended, but she stated to me, that it doesn't really matter how the message gets out, as long as it gets out. Boobies, Ta-Tas, Jugs, whatever; they're words. If this brings attention to this devastating disease, so be it. We in America have really got to get over the PC ways of discussing things. It is 2010 now ...... we're not living in colonial times anymore.
When I was in my early teens (the early 70's) I had a T-shirt that said "I Ball" and had a picture of an eye ball on it. Older girls and women would laugh at it but I never knew why, until I had it explaned to me. Seems a little inapproprate now but it was just a cool T-shirt then, and I didn't find it offensive at all. I suppose if it was really offensive my mom would have put a stop to it but she didn't, and I wore it to school lots. The school didn't say anything as well. "Boobies" on a braclet, "I Ball" on a T-shirt, we as a society haven't moved an inch in over 40 years when it come to change. In fact I think we are going backwards.
I think so too. Totally agree.
Some dumbazz who can't even SPELL "bracelet" is hardly to be emulated or admired.
The schools right. I'm in my early 20's so I can relate. The FACT of the matter is, 90% of these kids would NOT be wearing them if it said "Fight Breast Cancer" since they indeed have those.
They are ONLY wearing them to school because of what it says. While people are saying "Its just a braclet grow up and be mature" the issue is high school kids are not grown up and are not mature, and do giggle and laugh at the word boobie. I was there.
Stupid.
So of course, since you're in your early 20's, you know everything. We've all been there, done that. (I am 44). The point is, they've bought a bracelet that has something to say; that same bracelet purchase is going to benefit a Breast Cancer charity, so they know where the money is going and this in turn is going to help get the message out. In the end, the goal is accomplished. Who knows what reasons these young people have in purchasing the bracelet; it's not up to you or I to judge or question their motives; they know the real reason and message behind the bracelet and wear it proudly. Don't categorize them all as laughing, giggling, kids. Some of them are quite mature for their age and should really be given some credit and respect instead of being torn down or dismissed.
My kids wore the I heart boobies, pink ribbons, had pink keychains, t-shirts with Run for the Cure (Susan B Komen), everything they could, to school and everywhere, and all still do to this day. My mother, their grandmother is a breast cancer survivor. Some kids just want to make everyone aware due to personal experience with a family member having cancer.
Tammy B., your kids will be no better educated than you are, and that's the real shame.
MeTarzan;
Ummm! Seems as though you are the retarded one or at best the least refined, Mr. or Mrs. "Me Tarzan"
You have self proclaimed yourself with an infinitely stupid name. And then failed so miserably at trying to make an intelligent statement?
Are You 12 years old?
@chewwie: exaclty what I mean. They do not care about breat cancer, they are kids who are having a laugh at the expence of this horriable condition. You people who think it brings awarness are fools and have your heads in the sand. All it brings is awarness to the person wearing it, with giggles and "ooo's and ahh's" at how "cool" and "against the grain" they are, anything to push the envolpe.
Its sickning.
I'm a good student. I'm sixteen. I wear a pink ribon on my purse and the bracelet on my wrist. My mother has had breast cancer for five years and continues to fight the battle. I also love boobies. I have them. Never has the term itself become sexually arousing. No one has asked me to engage in sexual activities because I wear the bracelet. The bracelet is not distracting, it grabs attention. As it was intended to, whether good or bad you're just giving it more notice. Breast cancer is an issue left unresolved and until the day comes that there is a cure, let the high schoolers wear the bracelets. I will continue to wear mine to school for my mom and for everyone else. It's not your choice, its mine. People sometimes you have to think that maybe you're being a bit immature so easily offended by the term "boobies" ? I highly doubt this is the most crude term or thing you've seen on attire. We are not in the 50's.
You're not that good. Your writing could use a lot of improvement. Get back to me when you've managed to write at a level that is expected at a good university. You're not there yet.
Aint this a bitch? As the students having these bracelets stripped off us, and understanding how others,particularly our peers, view us we're to immature to understand the "problem at hand"? F dat' S your writing was fine and I doubt you're rude to your teachers. I'm rude to people who don't have my respect, and these people don't deserve yours. I LOVE BOOBIES <3
Nice comment High School Student and I wish you and your mom well. That is tough to be dealing with.
I have not seen anyone say that saying boobies or wearing a bracelet leads to promiscuity. It is really important when arguing a point, to not set up what is called a straw man, which is what you did. I am not sure even if people are offended by the word boobies I don't find the word boobies offensive. My kids used the word when they were little. But I do find that the word trivializes the gravity of the situation. Women have breasts. It is breast health and breast self examination, not boobies health and boobies self examination. Nor is it boobies cancer.
Finally, a voice of reason. Thank you, denise. I agree with your post here and your previous one, in which you expressed your opinion that the bracelets are not appropriate for school, and that schools are, and should be viewed as, places of business. People who trivialize school as unimportant are as much to blame for the problems with our educational system as are incompetent teachers and administrators.
If you want schools to succeed, stop undermining them every step of the way.
ONCE AGAIN, HOW CAN A BREAST CANCER ORG SUPPORT THESE BANDS. i LOVE BOOBIES SOUNDS LIKE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THEM YOUR NOT DESIRED. I HAD TWO BOOBIES REMOVED DUE TO CANCER SO i DON'T HAVE BOOBIES TO LOVE. TALK ABOUT RUBBING IT IN SOMEONE'S FACE.
Nice try Troll. But you are too obvious. And get rid of the cap key.
Being one who also had my 'boobs' removed 4 years ago, I feel the need to highly disagree with your thought process. Isn't it being selfish just because we had our removed due to medical reasons?? The message that is trying to be put out there is that WE ALL LOVE BOOBIES! And we would like to save ALL BOOBIES ....... from removal due to Breast Cancer! Yeah, I loved mine and I love my (2) new brand new ones and thank God every day for the chance to be here and be alive! You should look at things in a different more positive and more productive way!
deecee, maybe you ought to knock off telling others how they should feel about something. The person in question expressed her feelings, to which she has every right. Those who think someone can be pushed into accepting a different, more preferable (to them) set of feelings are just as insulting as people who tell someone who's depressed to "smile".
Eeyore; if you truly read my reply, there was NO telling Rayge how she should feel. It did, however, say how I feel. Although, some positive spins on anything could turn a bad thing to a good thing. In fact, I am thankful that I got breast cancer vs. someone else who may not have been so positive. Just so I can spread a positive word to those in need. You and others negativity in this world is very destructive. Enjoy life, and lighten up my friend.
Oh, really? Then do explain what you meant by this, dear, and I quote you: "You should look at things in a different more positive and more productive way!"?
You are discounting her feelings as less valid and real than yours and as negative and unproductive.
Who do you think you are to decide whether or not her feelings are valid and should be respected?
How do feelings turn a bad thing into a good thing, deecee? Do you see anything good about losing a mother to a cancer at an early age? What would that be? I'd love to know. The person in question had no symptoms and none of the risk factors for the cancer type from which she died. None. What possible good does cancer do in this case?
I'm sure you have all the answers. People like you always do.
The moronic comments on this site are simply appalling. Since when are schools obligated to accommodate your kids' whims at the expense of education? You idiots who think schools should be bastions of "freedom of speech" don't have a clue what you're talking about, and most of you never got past a high school diploma. Is that all you care about? That your kid can say or do whatever she wants whenever she wants, regardless of the effect her actions have on those around her? Do you morons think for one minute that these idiotic bracelets are going to save a single life? That your kid or anyone else is unaware of breast cancer?
What do you do to educate your kids on the causes of breast cancer? What do you do to support research on all forms of cancer? Just buy bracelets and then pat yourselves on the back and congratulate yourselves on having accomplished something? Jesus H. Christ, concentrate on getting your kid to focus in school so she or he can CURE f*cking cancer, you diimwits. That'll provide far more results than a stupid bracelet and a meaningless gesture that's really only intended to titillate.
@ justme hey kid how about you eat a D#ick and stop concentrating on spelling mistakes (my cpus messed up) im just layin down the truth Americans these days are whiners and even adults are becoming more immature then there children.......so you can Fawk off if my spelling offends you........sensitive pussay
You're a 15 year old adolescent who is ignorant of history, spelling, or grammar, and too stupid to know that you have much to learn. Too bad your education in the real world will be painful and expensive.
When you apply for that job at Mickey D.'s, dear, make sure you figure out whether to use "their", "there", or "they're". Your computer isn't able to determine which one you intend to use. You need a brain and an education for that.
we must teach our kids to defy authority when they feel their rights are in danger.. most people here say that school is a place for teenagers to follow the rule of law and authority. but is that what this country is founded on? of course there has to be some rules in place but when a law or rule is ridiculous or just plain tyrannical peaceful protest must happen. our country was born from revolution and freedom of speech, defiance against the Crown of England and unfair taxes we Americans must teach our kids to think independently and defy authority when necessary not follow a stupid rule that is unnecessary and probably a distraction from bigger issues in the school system, so my rant is Grow some Balls and be a American !! be a individual not one of the crowd, abandon political correctness and come to terms that in this planet there are no such things as Morals since every person has his or her different set of morals
Another candidate for a job flipping burgers and emptying bedpans. The Chinese and Indian doctors won't even know your name.
Good plan, kids feel they have a lot of rights that they (and adults) don't in reality have.
And that is part of the problem in our schools. Kids think they have a "right" to free speech, but they and their parents conveniently forget that with that right come limitations and responsibilities. The right to free expression is limited and does not extend to minors in every situation or environment. It's sad that the adults yapping about it aren't aware of that or of the law, and don't bother to learn.
Eeyore, your statement using our Lord's name in vain is WAY MORE OFFENSIVE then any boobie comment ever. To criticize a simple word and hypocritically write like you are high and almighty is what is appalling. Please stay with the good of the bracelets and get rid of the bad thoughts you have.
Again with the idea that thoughts and feelings are somehow "bad." I'll wager you own a lot of vacuous self-help books.
"Jesus H. Christ" isn't offensive to me. I don't believe in your phony god and have no reason to care if you do or if you're offended by someone else's language about some make-believe fairy. Why should someone care about your feelings when you don't care about theirs?
The "good of the bracelets"? What real "good" do they accomplish? Can you point to any significant effect they've had on anything? Are there any stats you can cite to back up your beliefs? Do you really think your "positive outlook" has any effect on the outcome of disease? It doesn't. It's been shown by research that belief doesn't have a thing to do with whether a person survives cancer or not.
Get over yourself, deecee. You're not the beacon of hope you congratulate yourself for being.
I do not find the word "boobies" offensive (neither do I find Jesus H. Christ offensive). I do find the bracelets, on a very personal level, offensive. But I digress, because this is not about my personal feelings or even that of the family in the article. Nor is it about (the very invalidargument) of freedom of speech, prudishness, oversensitivity etc, etc. It is about a school trying to maintain a measure of decorum and safe place for students to learn. We all know that there are boys and girls out who are going to take this to the next step. Should we let girls wear a "Feel your boobies" shirt. Same intent after all. What happens a boy takes her up on this? The same people saying how stupid this ban is, will be the first do denounce how bad our a schools are for allowing these things to happen. Schools have enough to deal with these days, let them deal with how they know they need to.
I suspect some of them are the same ones who'll object to teaching kids about birth control, STDs and condom use. No double standard there.
The idea that kids should be running the classroom and making the decision as to what is appropriate in school is ridiculous. Do these parents let their kids decide everything about their home life? Do you let them decide what color to paint the living room? Do they decide on your budget and how your income is spent? Do they control your savings accounts?
If so, you're too stupid to be parents.
I don't find the word "boobies" offensive. I do find it inappropriate in a setting such as school or work. There is more to school than learning facts or skills. Part of school is learning to be a productive part of one's community and society. Part of education is learning that one's own desires and quirks are not always more important than what is best for the community or the workplace, and that includes the classroom. Students are not adults and they don't have the same rights, nor do they possess the same knowledge or judgment. Teaching them to recognize that their right to expression does not extend to their neighbor's nose is part of education. Those who don't agree are welcome to pay for private school somewhere that values their child's "specialness" above the good of society.
So you're offended when someone says "Jesus H. Christ" and you expect others to respect your sensitivities, but you are unable to see the parallel? You're telling others not to be offended, yet you protest when you're offended?
Yeah, that's probably way over your head, isn't it?
The fact is that breast cancer draws a disproportionate amount of attention and funding, considering it's not the leading cause of death among women. These kids would better serve the cause of good health among women by promoting awareness of lung cancer and heart disease. The only reason most of them want to wear these silly, ineffectual bracelets is to disrupt, distract, and draw attention to themselves, not to defeat a disease.
We have had both the bracelets and the shirts kicking around campus for a couple years now, and it has hardly been "distracting." This at a school not very tolerant of free speech, e.g. the Justin Park incident in '06.
Every time public schools want to censor something, they trot out the old canards about "disrupting the learning environment" and "damaging young minds." In reality, the school is tired of hearing the same overzealous helicopter parents complain about the discrepancies between their white picket-fence fantasies and the realities of modern life. Consequently, students' rights and interests are often sacrificed in the name of appeasement.
At my high school, the administration wasted an incredible amount of time trying to enforce the dress code, especially as it became progressively more strict. It reminds me of the policing of "quality of life" crimes here in Baltimore. Police are busy breaking up parties and scraping drunks off the pavement in Charles Village, instead of making the rest of the city safe.
My grandmother was a breast cancer survivor; she had at least as snarky a sense of humor as any of my peers. She would have laughed at "all the kerfuffle" over something so harmless. For every person offended by these bracelets, there are many people who are not. Public schools need to be educating their students, not policing them.
How does wearing the bracelets enhance learning? If they're not contributing to education and are deemed distracting by those who are actually in the classroom or by other students, why allow them? What value do they add? If the value they add isn't sufficient to offset the level of distraction or disruption they cause, they shouldn't be worn.
They accomplish nothing.
When you've actually earned your degree and are teaching in a public school, you can render your opinion on whether or not such bracelets are appropriate or distracting. Until then, you're living in an ivory tower, dear.
This discussion is amusing. I wonder how many of those who've put such effort into defending the "rights" of students to wear some stupid bracelet have expended a scintilla of energy to support the schools in any way. How many have even bothered to attend rallies in support of teachers? How many bother to attend teacher conferences and actually make the effort to listen to what professional educators have to say about your children? How many go to Back to School Night, donate dollars to support extra programs that get precious little funding from the school system but are expected to perform miracles with your little dears?
Put your energy into something beneficial. These bracelets aren't it. Neither is your vociferous defense of the non-existent "rights" of your children to wear them. Be a parent instead of a pal.
i could not agree more. Parents do their children a huge disservice when they rally behind their children against the teachers and especially so on such a ridiculous cause as 'boobies' bracelets. Good grief. Children now rule the classrooms and, unsurprisingly, we are graduating children who are ill prepared for the workforce and post secondary institutions. A poster ridiculed me earlier for saying the school is a child's workplace.I am not sure what parents think school is all about but for my kids, they respect the teachers, they arrive on time, they respect the school's rules, they complete their work and they are their to learn.
denise, thank you. Those who are railing against every standard or requirement schools have are the very fools who deride the public schools as inept bureaucracies and those who teach or administer for them as idiots. They fail their children and society as a whole by pretending to care about "freedom" and "rights" when what they really care about is being their children's friends instead of their parents. They're afraid to set rules and standards themselves and think that by siding with their children in opposition to any and every institution, they're somehow setting a good example.
Then they wonder why schools are failing. They wonder why kids don't do well on standardized tests. They wonder why their children can't and don't succeed in college or the workplace and why they're finding it so hard to become independent adults.
It's sad.
What an idiotic discussion. Why not just allow kids to wear booty shorts and Hooter's tank tops, along with sagging plumber's butt jeans? Why make them wear clothes at all? Why even bother to make them attend school? It's an infringement on their RIGHTS to FORCE them to ATTEND SCHOOL! They should be allowed to do whatever they want and the rest of us working stiffs should be forced to support them and their desires for the rest of their lives.
And pigs should grow wings and fly out of their butts, too.
Oh, the poor little dears!!! They aren't being permitted to express their FEEEEEEELINNNNGS! They're being inhibited!! Their beliefs are being disparaged and not validated!!! OMG! They'll NEVER get over the lack of recognition of their awesome "speshulness"!!! They'll probably grow up to be completely maladjusted and will NEVER recover from this terrible assault on their precious and fragile EMOTIONS!!!
Get over yourselves, ya little dweebs, and tell your parents to grow some cojones so they can smack some sense into you.
Hello "lotsaluck"
I find you a rude invidividual. I was just stating my opinion on the matter, I respect everyones. I'm still very young and am fully aware that my writing isn't the best.
Well, since you're still young and in need of an education, student, allow me to educate you as to the spelling of "immature". You really do need to know that one, especially. It's so apt in your case.
I don't care what you find, sweetheart. You aren't an adult and your judgment is suspect on a number of fronts. Your opinion on this matter is no more valuable than that of any other minor, and unless you're teaching a class, you have no idea whether the bracelets in question are disruptive or whether most of those wearing them give a ripe fig about the real impact of breast cancer at all.
Oh and since I'm young enough to still be imature at times. You can go suck a big one
"suck a big one"
sounds like another rubber wrist band that will appeal to the teens.
Boo hoo. Wanna hankie, honey? If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Yes, denise, but only the ones who are immature and disrespectful, like "High School Student."
Do you imagine she/he is any more respectful of the teachers who correct her/him in school? Not a chance. Just as rude and childish as he/she is right here.
Charming. I'm sure the people who read your college essay and application will be thrilled with your ability to express yourself articulately. "Suck a big one" is sure to impress the admissions folks at Harvard. Good luck, dear. Let me know when you've actually attained a degree, become an MD and are on the brink of finding a CURE for cancer. Then I'll apologize to you. I won't hold my breath.
Well, gee, it's really quite apparent that if High School Student is an example of those who think wearing an "I heart boobies" bracelet is just a way to show support for breast cancer research, then we adults should all just back off. After all, telling those who disagree to "suck the big one" is surely a sign of sincere concern for others' lives, feelings and opinions, right? And certainly a great way to show how mature one is, no doubt.
And people question the schools' decisions to ban the bracelets? Look who they're dealing with-little kids who take umbrage the moment their concern and commitment are challenged by telling others to "suck the big one."
There's a reason kids under 18 don't get to drink or vote.
Whats the big deal? It is a common term often heard on TV. Males have terms used too. One well known national news outlet has a websight on their health board about testicular cancer and it tells boys to check their balls and it tells them how to check them. I have even heard them say on TV news before that males need to check their balls for lumps like women have to check their breast.
The issue is not the term. The issue is the context. In the school context, wearing bracelets with 'I Love Boobies' and other boobies related slogans is not appropriate. On another front, in my opinion, it diminishes and makes into a joke the issue of breast cancer.
But back to the school issue . Outside of school, if people want to wear their bracelets and T Shirts with boobies slogans, so be it. but within the school, they should not be allowed.
I think a High School student should have the right to utilize their freedom of speech, I love boobies could mean the person likes boobies, you know, like the Blue footed boobie which is a bird, how about the great tit, or the crested tit, they are birds.
Leave it to a sexually suppressed society to put a sexual spin on a young adult's support for breast cancer awareness. Matter of fact no matter what word was used the statement – I (heart) boobie, breast, tit, mammary... – would all be considered bad to the prudish people of this country. This guy deserves a medal for standing up for his rights and the rights of all Americans, freedom of speech.
For cryin out loud. I just got done reading an article on how teens are self-mutilating themselves by inserting sharp items under their skin. This is going on and we're worried about a bracelet that says "boobies" on it? How about we try to remember when we were kids? Eh? What's the matter with adults today? Lighten up. You just might find that these kids are alright afterall. The more red-faced you get over something as obviously silly as this the more fun it is for the kids. Seriously, why don't you focus on teaching and stop fussing over what the kids are wearing? Are you all really that uptight? Your embarrassment about the word boobies says way more about you than it does about the kids AND THEY KNOW IT>
Wow.... soccer moms. They're everywhere aren't they? I go to a private Catholic school and I've seen 2 girls wear those bracelets, and nobody seems to mind. And if it's going to a good cause, why stop it? Talk about uptight.
I agree with the posters that say the bracelets should not be permitted at schools. If the schools have decided that they will not permit them, parents need to support the schools and not challenge them on such a stupid issue. Kids can support breast cancer in a thousand other ways, other than wear ludicrous boobies bracelets.
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Get over yourselves. As a student in highschool the boys and girls dont look at it as suggestive. We look at it as a trend, and are proud to know our money goes to a good cause. Girls dont look at the boys and get all uppity about it or vice versa, we don't use it as a sexual thing in the slightest. It's really not meant to us to offend anyone, and it doesn't. It's only an issue because some adults way overboard and offended by everything, even a trendy way to support cancer. I don't want to hear some self-righteous parent flipping out about it either because the other people are right: Im a proud American, but are we seriously thinking this is an issue? psht.
Looks like it's being talked about on their Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/BoobiesMakeMeSmile
That's just a bunch of bull. Seriously i'ts just a braclet so if i wore some wrist brands and a shirt with some bad deisgining i get suspension. That's bull. I wear them braclets it's nothing sexual at all if it had a picture of breasts than, it would be sexual. Were supporting breast cancer to honor the brave women who are suffering from it . And were being forced not to wear them. Complete bull. That's so slavery. So it's alright for my princepal to wear them and not us. Never knew how much this world can be.
this is the stupidest thing ever!! i go to arvada k-8 and i got my pink and white boobie bracelet taken away on thursday, it is monday and i still have not gotten it back!! we pay four dollars for one of these bracelets, so that we can wear them to raise awarness for breast cancer, and the teachers are just going to take them away?! if they ban boobie bracelets, then that must mean they are flat chested. I <3 BOOBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUY A BRACELET AT ZUMIEZ FOR ONLY FOUR DOLLARS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a fact, billings pubic school district two in billings montana has banned the bracelets too for being "inappropriate" and "offensive" to people with breast cancer or people who have relatives that have it or died of it. Personally as a young, sixteen year old girl with a family history of all sorts of cancer, including breast cancer bought my bracelet in hopes someday soon they'll have a cure for it incase me, my mother, sister, or even father get this cancer. I understand some people, mostly guys, buy the bracelet as a joke because..well guys love boobies but as a girl, i personally dont like any other boobies but my own and id like to keep them. There fore..i think ill buy 3 more to support this cause
thank you keep a breast foundation
I have a pink one i also had a green one but they took it. My school is starting to get ticked with it. I feel if we are supporting breast cancer it does not matter. Some people out there say the heck with it i dont have it so why should i care. At least were standing up for one of the best causes out there.
I'm a high school junior and my school just found out that a rather young, beloved teacher has breast cancer. Before we found out, there were a few scattered "boobies" bracelets but now it's hard to find a kid that isn't wearing them. Apart from the real jerks at my school, just about anyone you talk to would tell you (quite honestly) that it isn't about the word, it's about the meaning. The school is trying to get kids to wear them inside out or take them off all together, but everyone's wearing them. There's a saying that's something along the lines of "It's better to let 100 guilty people go than convict one innocent." It's a similar priciple. Why ban them all when some are actually supporting the cause? I've lost multiple family members to cancer and I'll buy whatever bracelets they come out with. As for distracting, it's not like students are constantly squealing and giggling about the bracelets. We wear them, we talk about our teacher and others like her, we're aware. I know it's not like that in every school, but banning them only increases the appeal. Considering some of the other conversation topics at schools, breast cancer as a topic is a huge improvement. There are loads of things that go on that arent' "appropriate" for a school setting, but they still go on. We need to stop worrying about silly "distractions" and be a little less protective of some things and focus on more dangerous things that occur in schools on a daily basis.
That is SUPER gay that they are taking away our boobie bracelets we dont want to waste our money for them because we should be able to wear them to school its just for breast cancer people get over yourselves
You guys are all being immkature! Im a girl in middle school and i wear the braclet! Its for breast cancer so dont get all your pannies in a wad! "Boobies" is a way to make them sell. If the put "save breast cancer" i gaurntee they wouldnt sell. Besides some of nyou dont know how serious breast cancer is and how much the money there making is helping the people with it. The bracelets are also showing us we can all come together as a world to fight breast cancer.
i support the bracelets totally they arent causing any damage so why not
I'm a teen and my lol 12 year sister and I love these bracelets!!
Hahahaha someone actually made these! I just bought one. <a href="http://shop.iheartballs.orgI Love Balls Bracelets
Everyone has one of these bracelets at my school. It doesn't cause any distraction whatsoever! Its just another thing that we wear to support what us kids believe in and what we. My family and I are really close to one of the teachers that just got told that she is cancer free from breast cancer. I think you all need to get over your selves. Its just a saying and its for a good cause!
Yeah me and Alyssa go to the same school and they dont distract anyone and it is one of the little things we try to do to help support breast cancer awareness and Everyone knows what they are for and dont by them just because it says boobies on it its because we want to help so if u ban the bracelets you not helping anyone.
EXACTLY! Its a bracelet! You guys need to grow up and suck it!