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By Mary Sasa

Staff Writer 

About 20 members of the Shakopee High School junior class were sent home Friday for wearing shirts considered inappropriate by school principal Jim Murphy.

The students wore red shirts reading, “There’s no debate, we dominate. We’re the class of 2008.”

Murphy sent the students home, saying they could change and come back, but weren’t allowed on school grounds wearing the shirt. If they were to return wearing it, they’d be suspended for insubordination.

The offensive word? “Dominate.”

“We’ve had problems in the past,” Murphy said. “A group of kids thinking they’re superior, making comments to other classes, kids afraid   

Students weren’t happy, and neither were some parents.

“I’m all about school spirit,” said Patricia Illikainen, a mother of one of the students. “I’m just dumbfounded over this thing … There was nothing bad about the shirts. Not about knocking anyone around, not drugs, not violence, nothing.”

Some students and parents thought the theme for homecoming, “Barbecue the Wingers,” was far more offensive than the word “dominate.” The football team was to play the Red Wing Wingers Friday night.

The juniors made the shirts in one of the school colors anticipating homecoming and showing their class spirit, they said.

“They’re a close-knit class,” Illikainen said. “They do everything together.”

 


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This is the silliest thing I have ever heard. Really it is quite embarrasing and I was sorry to see it made it to the metro news. I feel sorry for the kids. That was a horrible decision by the school.


Submitted by majerus on October 7, 2006 - 8:53pm.

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You people don't understand, all youve got is a biased viewpoint because the juniors were the only ones that got any press on this issue and nobody cared about opposing viewpoints. Well as a senior, neither I nor any of my classmates felt that their shirts were appropriate. The class of '05 had a certain group of kids known as the '05 Dominators that basically intimidated and hazed anyone they didnt like. THAT is why 'dominate' is not allowed. Secondly, what exactly do the JUNIORS dominate? They are not the leaders of the school, that would be the seniors' job to do that. And on top of it all, they had a warning the day before from principal Murphy to not wear the shirts and did anyways. I hope you might understand this issue a little better now that you have another student's perspective.


Submitted by jpbedor07 on October 8, 2006 - 1:57am.

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