Breast cancer awareness is important, even to young girls like Kayla Martinez, 12, and Brianna Hawk, 13. "I Heart Boobies" is the slogan that adorns the wristbands they once wore to schooling – once because Easton Area Middle Schooling in Pa suspended the girls for wearing them to school. It then became a free speech issue, which the American Civil Liberties Union was happy to elevate into a lawsuit against the schooling district on behalf of the middle-school girls.
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The ACLU believes the “I Heart Boobies” lawsuit filed on behalf of Kayla Martinez and Brianna Hawk is the first such case in the nation regarding the breast cancer awareness product. Students love the "I Heart Boobies" rubber wristbands which the Keep A Breast Foundation of Carlsbad, California produces. School officials in Easton argue that the slogan invites inappropriate discussion and "trivializes a significant illness.". Throughout the United States, many schools have banned the wristbands.
Carrying out a strict dress rule
Kayla and Brianna had their parents’ permission to wear the "I Heart Boobies" bracelets, however schooling authorities felt they posed too much of a distraction. The principal and the girls got together and had a talk which led to an agreement. The site URL would be shown instead of the "I Heart Boobies" slogan as the girls wore the wristband inside out. The Easton Area Middle School changed its mind later. It decided the dress code was being broken with them.
Vulgarity concern discussed
There is a problem with the Easton Schooling rule being broken with the "I Heart Boobies" bracelets. It is since the word "boobies" seems on them. The schooling had no problem with its teachers wearing Breast cancer Awareness Month T-shirts to school during October. "Breast" was on the shirts. The T-shirts were evidently ok though. As part of the free speech lawsuit, the ACLU plans to argue that "boobies" may be "silly and irreverent, however not lewd or indecent," writes the AP. The demand that the American Civil Liberties Union has is the First Amendment rights of Kayla and Brianna be reinstated. The "I Heart Boobies" ban would have to be lifted. The suit also would have the girls have the expulsion lifted from scholastic file while also allowing the girls to attend all schooling functions once again.
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