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    Question Straight Edge In Schools?

    Today, I went to my high school for a welcoming orientation. The parents and students were talked to separately, and my mother said that a guest speaker mentioned straight edge in his speech. I was mildly appalled by the misconception he had of straight edge.

    He said that straight edge is people who choose to abstain from drugs and alcohol (correct) but do not necessarily have to be hardcore. He also said that straight edge is most commonly associated with religion, and that the music is religious. The hell? That couldn't be farther from the truth!
    Is anyone's school out there preaching this same, altered version of edge?
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    Quote Originally Posted by xSingingFoxesx View Post
    Today, I went to my high school for a welcoming orientation. The parents and students were talked to separately, and my mother said that a guest speaker mentioned straight edge in his speech. I was mildly appalled by the misconception he had of straight edge.

    He said that straight edge is people who choose to abstain from drugs and alcohol (correct) but do not necessarily have to be hardcore. He also said that straight edge is most commonly associated with religion, and that the music is religious. The hell? That couldn't be farther from the truth!
    Is anyone's school out there preaching this same, altered version of edge?
    I'd go find this person, give them a copy of the minor threat discography and ask them to listen to filter over and over and over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xSingingFoxesx View Post
    Today, I went to my high school for a welcoming orientation. The parents and students were talked to separately, and my mother said that a guest speaker mentioned straight edge in his speech. I was mildly appalled by the misconception he had of straight edge.

    He said that straight edge is people who choose to abstain from drugs and alcohol (correct) but do not necessarily have to be hardcore. He also said that straight edge is most commonly associated with religion, and that the music is religious. The hell? That couldn't be farther from the truth!
    Is anyone's school out there preaching this same, altered version of edge?
    Oh this bugs me beyond belief. One thing that bothers me more than anything, is a parent taking something they think they know and trying to make their own view and/or ideal of it. I would have stood up and told him he is completely and utterly wrong, except for the drugs and alcohol part. Especially when they try and bring religion into it, I hate religion, I hate talking about it, I hate everything about religion. I do not believe in any god.

    I swear if straight edge ever becomes a positive school ideal for kids to be a part of, like a christian club or something lame like that, I will start kind of organization or something haha, to protest this and show the truth.

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    that's a little better then believing we're all violent thugs or calling sXe a cult. but someone having heard of it and knowing it's beliefs is better then having someone with no clue what it is.
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    Very interesting. It would appear I was wrong about sXe being separate from religion just because a man at a podium told me so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kid_ugly View Post
    that's a little better then believing we're all violent thugs or calling sXe a cult. but someone having heard of it and knowing it's beliefs is better then having someone with no clue what it is.
    I agree. I've worked at two schools in PHX now where they have "gang training" and fortunately they never brought up straight edge--which has to do with the low population of punk/hardcore kids. This is quite a contrast from Midwest school training....

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    Quote Originally Posted by CarlaRant View Post
    I agree. I've worked at two schools in PHX now where they have "gang training" and fortunately they never brought up straight edge--which has to do with the low population of punk/hardcore kids. This is quite a contrast from Midwest school training....
    Gang training doesn't conjur up the best image, they should call it something different i think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xsecx View Post
    I'd go find this person, give them a copy of the minor threat discography and ask them to listen to filter over and over and over again.
    My thoughts exactly!
    "Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can't find them at first, find good music and fall into it and let it hold you until they come..."
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    Quote Originally Posted by kid_ugly View Post
    that's a little better then believing we're all violent thugs or calling sXe a cult. but someone having heard of it and knowing it's beliefs is better then having someone with no clue what it is.
    It might be a better ideal point of view, but the fact is.....its a wrong point of view. It is only partially correct.

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    Quote Originally Posted by straightXed View Post
    Gang training doesn't conjur up the best image, they should call it something different i think.
    Eh, the official meeting title was something different...Crisis Prevention and Intervention, but that's what everyone called it. It just boils down to being able to recognize gang symbols, colors, clothing styles, etc and how to handle tha in the classroom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CarlaRant View Post
    Eh, the official meeting title was something different...Crisis Prevention and Intervention, but that's what everyone called it. It just boils down to being able to recognize gang symbols, colors, clothing styles, etc and how to handle tha in the classroom.
    Yeah i figured that would be the case but gang training sounds like they teach you to sell cooked cocaine, launder money, throw gang signs and do shakedowns!!!
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