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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
Where you live is not typical. Speeding tickets are usually well over $150 in other parts of the country.
I don't think you get to tell her what a productive use of her time is.
And I'm sorry that your parents didn't care that you had things that were important to you.
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Wow do you have a way of misinterpretation.
As for speeding tickets, you're hung up on the number instead of addressing the point. Which, btw is that I WOULD accept the fine or fight it if I thought it was unjust.
2. I'm not telling her anything unless she happens to be on GC. Your comments on this discussion are just as relevant as mine are. In the end they're for THIS community's benefit, not the pink haired girl.
and 3. I'm calling Bullshit. You're just trying to be obtuse. My parents very much cared about things important to me. They did not however believe in or teach me that breaking rules because I WANTED to do something was in anyway equivalent to fighting for something IMPORTANT.
This girl is not the victim of discrimination based on her race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, etc. She is being required to follow the same rules as the entire student population. If it turned out that this WAS some singular attack on her, my feelings would be different. HOWEVER, as it stands, she violated the dress code, just like hundreds of kids do each day, and is paying the penalty for it. And I believe it is bad parenting on the part of the mother (and/or father) to support her in violating school rules. (Normal every day rules. Not discriminatory or racist rules. Wearing a midriff shirt and daisy dukes would violate the same rule.)