fuck this snowman shit

oh god, now i AM back in high school.

also, Megadeth shirts.

"The image popularized by drug-dealer-turned-rapper Young Jeezy symbolizes those who sell a white substance known on the street as snow: cocaine."

id send home pot leaf kids too.

vahid teaches in california, dude.

I first saw the snowman posters over the summer, and it seriously took me a while to put it together. Like, "Why are Young Jeezy's posters just a constipated snowman?"

heh. and this is why police investigators carry around switchblades. how else do you get to look up at your partner and say, "it's real," with such a grim expression?

vahid teaches in california, dude.

ooohhh yeah. right then.

maybe, maybe not.

we have some pretty arbitrary rules on campus about what you can/can't wear. ie, you can only wear ONE piece of blue or red clothing at a time. so if you are wearing a blue t-shirt you can't wear a blue hat with it, or blue jeans.

(xp to dan)

i'm still thinking that it had to be one of the metallica album covers.

i blame tookie. rip.

seriously tho, if you send kids with pot leaf t's home, you should definitely do the same for this. i doubt that if your principal knew what the snowman thing was, s/he'd be fine with the kids wearing the shirts.

the only thing bigger than my students desire to be dangerous = their willingness to believe that i'm a dumbass

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I was too young for W.A.S.P. tshirts to be around.

I guess, there needs to be a school wide policy re: the snowmen, or a regional thing.

http://www.driko.org/blogicons/calvin_snowman.gif

haha you laugh, but a lot of the chaos in the school system right now is due to the fact that administrators don't have the power to ban kids from schools. no child will be left behind! so now there is an entire academic tracks in this district for kids that 10 years ago would have been put in a continuation school and allowed to attend 2-3 hours / day, work a job, and work towards a GED.

Or do what Nabisco said.

(who the hell is buying yellow coke?)

last week a 9th grader told me "you banging blue or we banging you". i ignored him and kept passing out worksheets. i was like "you are FOUR FEET TALL AND HAVE A PUBESTACHE".

should high school be optional?

I totally dig the snowman shirts though I am iffy on Young Jeezy in general.

I mean, really - outside of "I am creeped out by a kid with a cocaine snowman on his shirt" — which is the adult's problem, not the kid's — what, exactly, is the harm? Do people actually believe that kids who otherwise would not have done coke will see the abundance of t-shirts and be more likely to experiment with coke?

Really?

Really?

My kids used to get chalk dust from the trays and cut "lines" then snort them.

kids are dumbasses.

i offered him applause and a referral, which i tore up after class in exchange for not saying "dick" again in my earshot.

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well, it's the kid's problem if i am the teacher and can't concentrate on giving a good lesson.

frankly, i'm not really sure what the harm is ... of course i'm much less worried w/ coke use (the kids have enough crackheads and welfare cases in their neighborhood to really want to fuck with that) and more worried w/ what kids see as their values and role models.

but again, maybe i'm just overreacting because i have a sheltered past.

From the adult perspective those distinctions don't really fly, which is fair enough and one reason you might not allow the shirts in school -- but I'm saying those distinctions are what could, in some cases, make the adult side seem hysterical and point-missing ("you're endorsing cocaine!") to the dumbass kid side ("but it's just a cool shirt!").

The fuzzy part stemming from that would be that some of the kids wearing these shirts are presumably close enough in contact with drug-dealing as a reality that you'd think that wouldn't be as much of an option.

stop, now. save your own sanity. (j/k, sort of, don't know if your situation is chaotic as mine was.)

btw, I got in trouble in fifth grade for wearing a t-shirt from Madonna's Virgin tour. My principal asked if I knew what "virgin" meant. I said, yes, it meant doing something for the first time. Adjecitves vs. verbs people! Anyway I was told not to wear it anymore but I did on the last day of school. hah-ha!

First I'm going to stack my flow
Then I'm going to stack some more
Close shop then I do my count
Hide the rest of the yams at my auntie house
Get fresh and jump in one of them cars
Hit the club and get one of them broads
It's a wrap we on the way to the house
By 3:45 I'll be kicking her out

Which makes it really difficult, from the outside, to tell the difference between the kids who'd go for this design in that kind of "it's a cool shirt" way and the ones for whom it'd really signify -- it's a difference that would probably operate on a kid-by-kid level, really.

(In any case, not allowing them in school seems like a pretty standard continuation on the long-established no-drug-references-in-school deal.)

I'm still convinced of the efficacy of the seventies model: got a kid wearing a shirt you feel uncomfortable about? raise the question with him/her. He (lemme just go with "he" so as not to be obnoxious)(er) will be really uncomfortable, and so will you, but it's in such exchanges that you can get the actual ideas you have about how it's uncool to glamorize stuff that lays waste to neighborhoods & families & lives across.

Simples rules about wearing the shirts, meanwhile, won't communicate that idea at all; it just reinforces the "adults don't know what's cool" meme.

xpost and I still think "no drug references in school" is moronic

No Happy Ending For Jenna Bush
Jenna Bush’s infamous ID-gate videotape is raising more questions than the Zapruder film. According to a source who has seen the footage—which features a self-described downtown coke dealer relating his late-night run-in with the First Daughter, and brandishing her wallet (stuffed with over $1,000 in cash) and college ID as souvenirs—the man insinuates that the two shared more than just drinks.

A well-informed source, who has a DVD copy of the interview shot by tbirdshow.com’s Travis Poston, says that at one point the dealer claims that the young, blonde Jenna Bush with the Texas accent he hung out with that night (and who happened to leave behind Jenna Bush’s belongings) had been “helping [him] clean up” the bar after a long night of partying.

(A publicist for First Lady Laura Bush has unequivocally denied that her daughter has ever been to the Chinatown bar, Happy Ending, even though we hear the UT-Austin ID card displayed in the film clearly shows the hard-partying political liability’s name, picture and student ID number.)

According to the New York Post’s Page Six, the Secret Service are reportedly taking the tape seriously enough to investigate, and we hear they’re not the only ones. When Fresh Intelligence emailed tbirdshow.com about securing selected clips to host on this site, we received the following curt response: “There are about ten top papers fighting for that footage. Get in line.”

Needless to say, “if a coke dealer has your ID it doesn’t look so good,” quipped the source.

Apparently, the affable salesman doesn’t limit his company to presidential offspring. “He brags on camera that he’s down with all the members of Interpol,” our source says. “And everybody in the club that walks by in the video says ‘hi’ to him.”

Reps for Bush and Interpol could not be reached by press time.

adults dumb: i'm gonna drink way too much the night before work and have to call out the next day and also "forget" to pay my electricity bill before they send the shut off notice!

And speaking as someone who was in a public high school a LOT more frequently than most of you were, kids would wear shirts with drug references all the time. Sometimes they would be aked to turn it inside out (Cannibal Corpse shirts, etc.) but things like "State Route 420" and a Bob Marley shirt that said "The more people smoke herb, the more babylon fall" would go over without a problem.

Most kids in high school have contact with drug culture--they have probably smoked weed, they have probably known people who used cocane (if they haven't used it themselves), and if they're in a "tuff" urban area, they may know people who carry handguns. These are the risks of being alive and a teenager now.

Drugs aren't a big deal, and I think that's the way kids feel about a possible drug reference. There are jokes about cocaine on major primetime television shows, and crime dramas about heroin--surely high school students shouldn't be allowed to watch/enjoy them. Clearly.

adults dumb: i'm gonna drink way too much the night before work and have to call out the next day and also "forget" to pay my electricity bill before they send the shut off notice!

this made me laff really hard

And then of course the guy wearing it was not someone you'd think would be much snitch-concerned, but rather this short fancy-hair guy with these stylish post-Urban-Outfitters duds and hip-ass sneakers and the kind of greenish pretty eyes that, on a black person, kind of throw you into the role of ladies' man from the get-go.

http://www.citypaper.com/sb/87365/topten_news.jpg

(from the delightful stop snitchin' dvd)

Skinny Suge presents Stop Fucking Snitching Vol. 1

not to mention actually helping to perpetuate the stop snitching thing by, y'know, paying for it.

Slate on snitching today interprets the whole thing as actually being about law-enforcement snitch-moling (and contends that law-enforcement snitch-moling is actually a really terrible policy) -- which might be fair, except that I think that the no-snitch thing as it plays in popular culture is actually kinda different and more general than that, more of a sides-taking thing.

I like this one!

BALTIMORE - A man featured prominently in a homemade DVD dubbed “Stop Snitching” that warned Baltimore residents not to cooperate with police has been arrested, authorities said.

An informant tipped off authorities that Ronnie Thomas, 30, would be in South Baltimore, where he was arrested Sunday.

it looks like a big huge handwritten "refrigerator magnet" note ... the sort of thing you'd put phone #s or reminders on.

and then written in scribbly handwriting on it:

"note to self:
remember to
GET REAL PAID
...
OR DIE TRYING"

i wanted to be like, dude, why don 't you just concentrate on passing my class w/ a C?

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs046.snc6/167679_753681070012_8110956_41222743_7105011_n.jpg

during the era of the snowman shirt, i strongly coveted a black on black glitter snowman shirt that i had once seen. i would walk down to the fulton street mall to see if i could find one so i could covet it again. i never did and still regret this.

Then he woke up his sister, Poop.

the thing is, I find the shirt creepy - kids advertising "cocaine! cocaine" has a pretty hideous dystopian ring to it

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:16 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ post/username

wow I did not realize that it could take more than an entire calendar year to build a snowman out of poop