A 12-year-old student at a Belpre, Ohio, school apparently has been suspended for bringing a copy of Sports Illustrated to school. Of course, it wasn't just any old edition of the magazine. Sixth-grader Justin Reyes was suspended for three days for bringing Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition to his public school, Pittsburgh TV station WPXI reported on its Web site on Monday. Belpre City School District officials said sexually suggestive material is not allowed on school property. "You saw bad stuff on the Super Bowl halftime show," Justin said. "You could see more on that than in [the magazine]." A teacher confiscated the magazine and officials recommended Justin spend time at an alternative school. His mother, Nicole, refused, adding that she's outraged the school district considers the magazine to school a delinquent act, WPXI reported. "That is not sexual harassment. I doubt my 12-year-old is the only one looking at Sports Illustrated," she was quoted as saying. Don't tell me I was the only loser who still wasn't "into" girls at age 12.
hmmmmm.....i did a high school project with nothing but SI cutouts. Never got suspended though although teacher wasn't too thrilled.
Ohio...wtf. Some people are way too uptight about sexuality in this country which doesn't even make sense.
I saw this...This is freakin' ridiculous...There has got to be better things to monitor in our schools...
From the thread title, I thought SI was starting up a "swimsuit issue for kids" - either an introduction to half-naked women specifically geared toward young boys, or one (worse) featuring rather young models. Glad to see I was wrong. It's not as bad as the usual thing you see in middle school... you know, the folder that says something like "Social Studies" or "English" and has a regular pr0n magazine inside it, and gets passed around among all the guys. At the same time, I don't blame them for not wanting it in school. They can look at it at home if they want to. I wouldn't want to be the teacher and have 12-year-old boys getting... ummm, distracted in that fashion during class.
i hate it when people get more strung out about sexuality and to a lesser extent drugs. then say violence. people really need to get there priorities straight.
It's amazing how times have changed. When I was in school, a kid who brought an SI Swimsuit Issue to school might have it confiscated and that would be about it. Maybe a day's detention at the most. They wouldn't have even given swats for something like that. Now that I think about it, though, I recall kids having swimsuit pictures of the models of the day covering their notebooks in junior high and high school. So bringing the SI Swimsuit edition to the school would probably not have come to anything. But I guess that's the difference between growing up in Ohio vs. growing up in the very liberal Texas Panhandle.
Man, kids were doing that all the way back in 4th grade. And we we're thankful! Still, what a doof. Kids who bring risky stuff to school to be cool should be suspended for being tards.
Three days suspension is kind of severe, in my day we got three day suspensions for fighting and I'm only 26. Confiscate the mag and move on, I blame the liberals
When I was in the 6th grade, a buddy of mine brought the swimsuit edition to school, and you know what the teacher did? She took it up from him; don't know if she ever gave it back to him, though. Suspending him seems a little overboard, here.
WTF, my junior high's library gets Sports Illustrated swim suit edition every year since we subscribe to the sports illustrated. We can check out the magazine overnight if we wanted to, and we did. I don't see what the big deal is at all. This is just the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
dud, you got to be kidding. this country is the black hole in raising children moraly upright. You would not see half naked ladies on prime time tv in most countries.
Let's see, Europe, Japan and most of the other developed countries have a lot loose 'moral' code than we do as far as what can be shown on TV. It seems that the more developed countries is and more individual rights are respected, traditional conservative (backwards) thinking starts to end. The places that are as sensitive or more sensitive than the U.S. in moral codes are countries where individual thinking is suppressed. So do we want this country to be more of individual thinkers or be something like a police state in the middle east?
Once in the 4th grade myself and a group of about 10 guys got caught on the playground looking at some foreign smut magazine another kid had brought in. Most of the pictures looked like some obscure art to us at the time but it was still awesome! The school's discipline was to speak to the group with a counselor and NOT tell our parents..... this school also showed us the sex tapes in the 4th or 5th grade, anyone remember those?
