The main crux of this entry rotates around a legal case involving a man named Charles Smith out of Conyers, GA and Wal-Mart. You can read all of the details here. If you do not want to read all of the details, I can summarize it for you.
Like so many others, Charles Smith does not like Wal-Mart. Instead of just doing the normal voicing of his dislike, he took it one step (big step) further and opted to make t-shirts focusing on “Wal-ocaust” and “Wal-Qaeda” along with a variety of pictures and other sayings on the shirts. Personally, Wal-Mart is on my least favorite list as it is one of the most unfriendly companies to one with a disability as you can get while still technically meeting the legal codes. Those places are just too dang big and piled too dang high.
You can give credit to Charles Smith for his creativity. You can look at Wal-Mart however you like. In the end, Wal-Mart challenged Charles Smith in court and got a royal beating from the judge.
What does all that have to do with education? 
Wal-Mart attempted to contend the yellow smiley face could not be used by Smith as they had it trademarked. Also, Wal-Mart is in another case arguing that same point against a different opponent.
Now, think of all of those elementary school papers that were so well done. Sometimes you got a star sticker on them and it was cool. The shiny green and red stars were the best. Sometimes you got the stickers that said “Good job,” “You’re an ace,” or any number of sayings and those were okay. But that yellow smiley face was always an option in there.
Wal-Mart might take that away for a profit margin. That’s just not right.
But then again, Judge Batten thought that was silly and ruled that out.
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