Maybe it's a good year to be out of the classroom...

Because I'd want to laugh but have to tell students to turn there shirts inside out - From the LA Times Culture and Liesure section this week...

They wear cynicism proudly
T-shirts with rude slogans are hot, but schools and many parents aren't happy with their kids' smarmy attitude.
By Becky Yerak
Chicago Tribune
August 26, 2005
CHICAGO — Hi, loser.No, not you. That's the slogan on a popular T-shirt sold to teenagers as part of a booming trend in "attitude" clothes that is doing exactly what it was designed to do: amuse the kids wearing them while appalling their parents and teachers.With the back-to-school shopping season in full swing, teens are snatching up the T-shirts from companies such as It's Happy Bunny, which features a cute cartoon rabbit offering commentary such as "You're ugly and that's sad." Across the country, T-shirts with acerbic, flirty and downright raunchy messages are reproducing like rabbits.It's one financial bright spot in an otherwise lackluster back-to-school season in which the National Retail Federation forecasts that sales will drop 8% this year.At Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for instance, "attitude" tees are up 50% over last year, when the world's biggest retailer sold 20 million of them. And online, searches for the rude rabbit whose T-shirts spout such barbs as "I know how you feel. I just don't care" are up 558% in the last two months on Yahoo Shopping.


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