School bans little girl's Wonder Woman lunchbox...

[Hector]

The world has gone truly mad...

http://news.yahoo.com/school-bans-childs-wonder-woman-lunchbox-083018166.html

Unbelievable....

[knight errant00]

So, here's my solution: we get this kid a Bureaucratic Man lunchbox -- y'know, the hero who solves problems by creating and citing rules and then threatening to call the authorities if you fail to comply. Gotta be a market for that -- this kid's school, sadly, can't be the only one like this today.

[Falstaff13]

When I first read it, I thought they were banning it because Wonder Woman was out of dress code, making me think this was a very strict school.

[Earth 2 Chris]

That is just ridiculous. I thought it was maybe due to it being a metal lunch box, but no it's because she's "violent".

I would argue that many of the modern images of Wonder Woman are probably too violent to pass many school dress codes, etc. But this is classic Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (Praise Be His Name) Wonder Woman. She's about as violent as the Smurfs.

Chris

[Hedji]

That's ridiculous. Wonder Woman doesn't solve problems by being violent. She solves them by dressing in skin tight spandex briefs, corsets, knee high boots, and uses bondage strategies to get what she wants.

In all seriousness, that is one cool looking lunchbox that any boy or girl should feel proud to carry.

[drquest]

If this was my daughter she would be taking a different lunch box to school every day depicting every superhero I could find.

[Boy_Wonder_1978]

I'd be finding my daughter a new school pronto. There's no way I'd want the type of people that 'consider' an image on a lunch box to be violent teaching my child.

Wonder Woman...? LOL!!!

Thank God it wasn't The Waltons.

[Mikey]

Dang, that's a sweet looking lunchbox !!!

Looks very retro

It looks metal

Schools have been banning metal lunchboxes since the early 90's no matter what subject is printed on it

[Earth 2 Chris]

If this was my daughter she would be taking a different lunch box to school every day depicting every superhero I could find.

I'd go with Deadpool and Wolverine just to tick them off.

Chris

[Hector]

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[Iron Mego]

On word: Bull****!

[PNGwynne]

I think she should get an American flag lunchbox.

[skid14]

it just amazes me what this society deems appropriate and not....

[TomStrong]

Total bunk man. I teach in a small rural high school and we dont have these kinds of problems. . . yet. Hope we never do. But they're all too common in American schools nowadays. And I really don't know what kind of school it is. Seems a little ridiculous to me. Kids have so many other problems to worry about nowadays.

[megoscott]

This is a stupid story. There's no info about what kind of school it is. Plenty of schools have policies like this, it may be uncommon in public schools.

My son's charter school had a policy against characters on clothing and lunchboxes. It was a Montessori school and they are very against that sort of thing. Prefer kids to be free thinkers and create for themselves, etc, and they discourage the idea that violence solves problems. I don't think any of that is terrible. This school has a policy and as innocent and friendly as that Wonder Woman is I'm sure they felt they had to be consistent.

As it turns out they are swimming upstream and kids will do what kids will do and the ban never really got enforced. Plenty of angry Hulks and snarling Batmans on backpacks and they all beat the heck out of each other at recess. My son is ****ed he can't wear his Ninjago shirt, but that's what weekends are for.