Tweens in the news

Tweens in the news

Do these shirts show disrespect? At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.

Dearborn Public Schools spokesman David Mustonen has told The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press that the shirts the boys wore to Edsel Ford High School on Monday are "offensive" and in "poor taste."

The boys are Arab-American, as are about half the school's 1,700 students.

They belong to the 2011 class. On the shirts, the number 11 resembles two buildings, with the school's "Thunderbird" mascot flying toward them. Printed beneath the image are the words, "You can't bring us down."

The boys are to meet with school officials but suspensions are not planned.

- Posted on January 6, 2010

I don't think these shirts make disrespect because they are just shirts. There just like any other shirt its like saying a shirt with a nice complement is bad.

I don't see why these sweatshirts are disrespectful because they are saying no one can bring the United States down. Having the school mascot on them doesn't make them offensive in my opinion. It is showing the twin towers and representing us. I don't see why the school board thinks they are disrespecting America. What exactly is being disrespected in them?

I dont think it is a bad thing. They just were just showing school spirit. Also it is the schools officials fault to because the are the ones that thought of is the wrong. Dont blam the kids blam the adults.

I believe that it's not a bad thing. The shirt has a very good message; I mean I know it goes with the school, but you can also apply it to the U.S.A. You can't bring us down either. I believe the boys should not get in trouble for it. They are speaking out against the terrible thing that happend to our country.

This design looks nothing like the twin towers. The bird is not an airplane, and you can tell it is an 11 not two side by side buildings. Also people need to remember the United States Constitution, freedom of speech. We all have the right to say what we want when we want. Then do not forget about freedom of press and what is a shirt design like? It is like wearing a newspaper or advertisement so nothing is wrong with the students wearing or making these shirts to remember their class of 2011.

I don't know what to say about this one. The reason for this is because yeah it looks like the twin towers, but it's standing for 11 because their class is 2011, and their mascot is a thunderbird. I don't think that they were trying to hurt people and upset them, they just wanted that for their class shirts.