. . . the school tells your daughter she has to stay in the principal's office until she sees fit to take out her banned facial piercings, and you say something like
"Let them stand up for what they believe in."
Hey, dumbass --- your daughter is getting punished for a dress code violation, and her grades are suffering. Can you name the thing she "believe[s] in"?
I realize there's a chance that 100% of the LWOK and maybe 30% of the LWK are going to say it's none of the school's friggin' business what kids wear, but most parents don't want their kids to make permanent body alterations at age 13 and are relieved that schools back up this parenting decision. When the minority of parents who favor body alteration take on this policy as a matter of "free speech," they make the policy go away and signal to kids that being jackasses about a rule gets results. They're ruining a system of parent-school cooperative repression and conformity that has worked for 150 years.
If dress code violations are free speech, don't come crying to the VP when your daughter volunteers for the Offensive Line Gangbang Webcam --- that's free speech, too. "Let them stand up for what they believe in."
