# Why can't those girls wear a pentacle to school? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 6, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209 "2002-09-06T00:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209/101 "2002-09-09T18:51:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beagle \* > \*\* > I don’t see what is wrong with this. Why allow anyone to go around in school with annoying distractions to learning that emphasize class, wealth, ethnic, political, or religious distinctions? Isn’t that just asking for trouble? Simple, eliminate the whole potential problem. > > Jewelry gets stolen, lost, can cause injury, be used as a weapon, yadda, yadda – lots of good religion-neutral reasons. There is no good reason I can think of to allow jewelry in school at all. I’m liking it more and more. \*\* Unfortunately, you can then easily run into the problems of other religion-specific clothing, hairstyles, etc. What if the schools decided that all yarmulkes for Jewish boys were out? Or headdresses/veils for muslim girls? Or that boys were not allowed to have long hair–even Sikhs and Rastafarians? The schools should just grow up, take a deep breath, and patiently explain to everyone that THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY over such matters. Just as they have no authority over what type of car the students’ parents drive, or whether the kids prefer Pokemon or Dragonball Z. It just isn’t seomething they need or want to get involved in. Concentrate, instead, on engaging kids interest in reading, math, and science. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209/102 "2002-09-09T18:54:16Z")
**kids’** interest, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Justhink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@Justhink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justhink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209/103 "2002-09-10T19:41:27Z")
Thought my two cents would be of minor value… Pentacles are numerically symbolic of regeneration; an inversion of which eludes to degeneration. Anyone with half a brain these days knows that there is no frame of reference from which pentacles are inverted; so in all honesty, the pentacle is a symbol of regeneration/degeneration, the duality, no matter which way it faces. Enclosed in a circle eludes to the _process_, pure, unadulterated; equal, democratic - of sustainence, regeneration, recording etc… That is the pythagorean (and older) numerical value of 5, in number symbolism. -Justhink ---
**Author:** ![Justhink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@Justhink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justhink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209/104 "2002-09-10T19:57:23Z")
Arrgghh… In this sense, it symbolizes the process of permanence. It is not memory or form; but rather symbolic of the displacement of form, and the universal embeddedness of remembering, and seeking to re-become that form. It is also symbolic of replication. -Justhink ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209/105 "2002-09-11T00:03:17Z")
IIRC, the pentacle was also the symbol of the Pythagorean Society, way back when. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-those-girls-wear-a-pentacle-to-school/127209.md?page=5)