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Why is it phone manufacturer's fault that you don't properly shop for a smart phone? You clearly didn't do your research and just picked on things that are obviously not important to you. If having to use the phone with one hand was that important to you, you would have done proper research and found that there are

It's not just annoying and inconvenient; man hand-designed phones are actually interfering with women's ability to be journalists.

Oh God. This is really a stretch, even by Jezebel standards.

It's almost like phones come in different sizes and you should take that into account when you're buying one.

Do your "journalists" not fact check? The boy was not suspended for the reasons your article suggests he was suspended for. The school does not allow purses in the classroom (as most schools in this violent "hide your gun" society don't). He also cussed out administration. My 6th graders have more journalistic

I totally agree with you. I think this story was spun to look like an incident of homophobia but it was really about the refusal to leave the purse/bag/whatever in his locker and talking back/swearing. I day suspension is totally reasonable and I am a youth worker who works in a high school. I have seen this kind of

" Superintendent Don Blome told Raw Story that middle school students were forbidden from bringing their bags to class. He said the policy was applied fairly to male and female students."

The news reports are getting updated. The school had a gender-neutral "no bags or purses" policy which was enforced against girls as well as boys.

You guys are NOT reporting the whole story. This kid can wear his bag to school all he wants, but he is NOT allowed to take it into his core classroom. Nor are any of the other children, boys or girls. Backpacks and purses are NOT allowed in the classrooms (a rule that has been in place for 10 years) and when he was

All the comments suggesting there's even a chance that it's just school policy that the school hasn't enforced very well until now are hidden in the grey. Coincidence?

As someone who has taught Junior High, I 100% agree with you. Fighting dress code violations is a constant uphill battle at the best of times. I read the headline and was enraged, only to find myself asking myself why this is news after reading the article. Obviously it's a serious issue if they're picking on him to

For all of you who believe the news without any background knowledge.. I am a very recent former student of Anderson County High School. My only purpose in this discussion is to state facts. I want to make clear that I have nothing against gay people. I love and support a close family member of mine who is gay. I was

There you go, clogging up our blind outrage with stuff like facts and reason.

Ok, usually I don't trust internet comments one bit (except for on Jez, of course) but the following was posted in the comments on the linked story. If you can follow the comment, which is difficult and makes it seem like a legit junior higher wrote it, I don't like this kid.

I suspect people who don't spend their days in the classroom don't realize that phones (for example) are a big problem because kids take pictures of the tests and send them to their friends. For a while we had an issue with girls spraying perfume around and some kids have kind of severe reactions to clouds to that

I'm sure. Food, drinks, calculators, phones. All things that they might be trying to keep out of the "core" classes, aka the classes where students are more likely to cheat and/or need to pay more attention in. If every girl in that school is made to follow this rule and he's simply refusing to go along with it, then

Usually before claiming something is sexist or homophobic or whatever angle we're aiming for here we check to find out what the actual policy is. Clearly we checked to make sure the same policy doesn't always apply to females.

Clearly.

I mean because that would be obvious.

You checked right?

Guys?

Superintendent Don Blome

Ok people, time to say something unpopular. As a teacher I have some questions. What is the schools policies on bags being carried around? My school has a size requirement for bags. And it is a safety issue. Don't think it is a safety issue, please think back to a few weeks ago when a teacher was killed by a student

Anderson County School District Superintendent Don Blome said Thursday that he could not discuss the specific case because of privacy concerns. However, he said all students, whether female or male, are prevented from having bags, purses, satchels and backpacks in the core classrooms like English and math. The bags

This is not as bad as it seems, apparently. "Superintendent Don Blome told Raw Story that middle school students were forbidden from bringing their bags to class. He said the policy was applied fairly to male and female students."