[Ansteorra] just read the link

[Chris Zakes]

At 08:43 PM 12/14/2006, Matthias the Brewer wrote:

>A logo and mascot are not the same as a person with a real weapon on their
>person.  They are drawings or representations of the actual weapon.  The
>student was holding an actual weapon.

Yes, and a yearbook photograph of someone with a sword is not the 
same as having a person with a *real* sword in the school, either 
(which, presumably, was the initial purpose of the "no weapons" 
policy.) It's kind of difficult to stab someone with a photograph.

I have to wonder if their school library has taken out all the 
pictures of swords (and other weapons) from the encyclopedias and 
history books.

Shyla wrote:
>We should pick our battles more carefully. Like someone else said 
>there are other things that can be done that are SCA related, and 
>suing over it just seems immature and makes us all look bad. Is this 
>really the publicity we want? Now when we say "I'm in the SCA" 
>people will say "oh yeah that's that thing where the mom sued 
>because the school wouldn't let the kid have swords in the picture." 
>Is that the image we are looking for? Think about it....this will 
>reflect on us all regardless of how the rest of us feel. Just my thoughts.

Well *I'm* all in favor of standing up against stupid and arbitrary 
policies by government officials. There's also that line in the 
Constitution about our right to keep and bear arms...

         -Tivar Moondragon
                 Ansteorra