Rush to judgement.
Via Daily Mail:
A Florida middle school student was told he couldn’t wear his T-shirt bearing the Republican Party logo and was forced to turn the top inside out for the rest of the school day.
The Jacksonville boy wore the controversial shirt as a part of his ‘Republican nerd’ costume to celebrate Nerd Day during Kirby-Smith Middle School’s Spirit Week on Wednesday.
But his wardrobe didn’t seem to fare well with school staff members who reprimanded him for the political top and suggested he turn it inside out.
But the student and his mother couldn’t figure out just what was so offensive about the top.
It was nerd day, so he wanted to be a Republican nerd,’ the student’s mother said to News4Jax.
‘When he came home from school he told me “Mommy I got in trouble, I was told to turn my shirt inside out.” I said why and he said “The dean of my school told me to turn it inside out,”‘ she added.
The two consulted the school’s dress code guidelines and failed to see how wearing the political shirt breached an rules.
The dress code says: ‘Students may not wear any clothing or display any items which are obscene, profane, suggestive or derogatory to others.’
But wearing a shirt of political nature does not violate those parameters.
The school district later agreed with the mother.
A Kirby-Smith Middle School spokesperson told Yahoo Lifestyle that the incident resulted from ‘momentary confusion’.[…]
The student’s mother said the school called her on Friday to apologize for reprimanding her son.
She says her son intends to wear the shirt to school again.