Recently the faculty at George Junior High School in Rosenberg asked a seventh grade boy to cover up his Star Wars shirt due to the fact that the storm trooper was holding a laser gun on the front of it. The only thing on the shirt was the Star Wars logo and a storm trooper holding the gun. The boy, Colten Southern, was informed he was no longer allowed to wear this shirt because of the weapon supposedly advertises violence. The administrators claimed that they could have punished the boy, but instead they simply enforced him to zip up his jacket and told Southern he wasn’t allowed to wear the shirt anymore. This child in particular is a Boy Scout, volunteers and goes to church frequently and would not agree to such violence as the school thinks this shirt encourages.

Especially with the new Star Wars movie coming out, millions are anxiously waiting for the release of the movie by promoting the fandom with anything including the Star Wars label on it. When someone, particularly faculty members of a school, get themselves involved with a movie franchise, someone gets offended and ends up banning something incorporated in the movie. Parents and students are outraged by this severe act and when Southern’s dad took this to Facebook, it went viral and many disapprove of the school board’s decisions. Many believe others are getting way too offended by something that people worldwide are eager for.

For years people have worn articles of clothing with some type of violence, but only now has it really been a problem. Unfortunately, school boards do not think these guns are school appropriate, even though there has been no problem with this merchandise prior to the event in Rosenberg. The school made a rash decision without taking into consideration of what the shirt really meant and the fact that they’ve never done anything to reprimand this issue before. People have to be extremely careful when doing anything now a days because of political correctness. Some are easily offended by the smallest things and often assume things are symbolic or represent bad intentions when really, its just a popular movie coming out. The t-shirt that Southern wore wasn’t a secret code for an act of violence, it was just a young boy expressing his excitement for the biggest movie of the year that is about to come out.