North Kirkwood Middle School also serves as the site of a Presbyterian ministry (EPC Church Plant) called Greentree Community Church on Sunday mornings.
Does Jesus scare the HELL out of you?
For one 12-year-old middle school student, the answer was an emphatic yes.
Michelle Ramirez was pulled out of class at North Kirkwood Middle School in Kirkwood, Mo., on Wednesday for wearing a T-shirt that read, “JESUS, HE SCARES THE HELL OUT OF YOU.”
Administrators claimed that under the Kirkwood dress code policy, the use of the word “hell” was inappropriate and vulgar, according to the principal and school district officer Ginger Fletcher.
Reported by FOX 2 news, Fletcher stated, “Outside the school environment, it might be fine. Anything within the school that… might create a disruption in the school, we’ll ask the student to modify the garment.”
But Ramirez refuted, “It wasn’t disruptive until they said something about it.” She had worn the shirt many times before, without any controversy, she said.
While the school considered the use of “hell” a “slang” word that might be offensive to other students, Ramirez and her family all stood by the belief that the word hell denotes a place, not a slang.
“I don’t think it’s a slang word because it’s all capitalized, and even though the ‘HELL’ is a different color, it still means the same thing: That he does scare the hell out of you, that you’re not letting the devil in…
Read More: http://www.christianpost.com/news/12-year-old-pulled-out-of-class-for-hell-raising-t-shirt-49479/
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