Archive for August, 2007
Suspended for wearing a Slang T-Shirt
Snohomish High School suspended a teenager for wearing an inappropriate tee shirt to school. Justin Patrick wore a tee shirt to his school Snohos. He believed it to be a harmless tee shirt with the name of his video club group. School officials had something else to say about it. Justin Patrick was suspended from [...]
Grammar school child suspended for wrong color t-shirt
A Winston elementary school boy was suspended on the first day of school after wearing the wrong color tee shirt. At the end of the prior school year, notices were sent home and parents were advised of the new dress code that would be implement for the following school year. They were advised to buy [...]
T-Shirts with Allah on it seized and legal action taken against store owner
In Ras Al Khaimah, (one of the United Arab Emirates) Inspectors seized t-shirts at a sports shop that sells gym clothes with “Allah” printed on it. Residents had complained to the Department of Economic Development that t-shirts with Allah should not be worn by people when exercising. Shirts when at the gym are subject to [...]
School District Bans all T-Shirts starting January 2008
The Lebanon School District has plans for a new dress code in January that would ban t-shirts. In a 5-3 vote the school board voted to require students to wear collared shirts and t-shirts are BANNED. Insignia other than school logos are prohibited. What is interesting about this is that they go on to say [...]
Barbie is a Lesbian T-Shirt Banned and student suspended
Gay Student Suspend Over Tee Shirt
Natalie Young, a fifteen-year-old student, In the New York City School System, was suspended on April 2, for wearing an inappropriate tee shirt to school. The faculty at the high school where Natalie attends deemed the tee shirt reading “Barbie is a Lesbian” was not appropriate school attire. Natalie being [...]
T-Shirts NOT allowed at Indianapolis Schools as part of new dress code
In August the Indianapolis Public Schools implemented a new dress code that included banning t-shirts from students clothing options. On the first day of school there were 20 students that weren’t in compliance. Students parents brought many of the students who were not in compliance clothes and teachers supplied additional clothing options for students. Some [...]
Students suspended for inappropriate T-shirts
Several students were suspended from Crocker High School for wearing inappropriate T-shirts. The t-shirts were printed with message protesting the resignation of their school principal, Wayne Juliano. Four of the students wore tee shirts with “SAB” printed on them. This stands for “Students against Bogle.”
Jim Bogle is the Superintendent of Schools and is blamed for [...]
Anti-Bush T-Shirt - ACLU Settlement
According to the ACLU, the Federal government is to pay $80,000 to a Texas couple who was arrested in cover their t-shirts that had anti President Bush slogans. Both Nicole and Jeffrey Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas were arrested on July 4, 2004 at a Capitol rally where George W. Bush was giving a speech. [...]
ACLU files lawsuit over banned Gay T-shirts
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 15-year-old student. The student, LaStaysha Meyers, wore her tee shirt supporting gay right to a Webb City Missouri High School, and was punished for it twice. The lawsuit filed in Federal Court states that the Webb City School allows its students to wear tee shirts [...]
T-Shirts Banned at Macy’s - Brown is the New White
T-Shirts were removed from Macy’s shelves because they were reported as “Offensive” by some shoppers. The t-shirts read “Brown is the new White”. “Schwartz said it would have been bad had it not gotten a lot of media attention, thus promoting the new product.”The T-shirt in question is one of about 20 designs. Other [...]
