International Terrorist T-shirt Banned

Posted by Ban Shirts

September 6, 2007

A student at a Dearborn Michigan school was given the choice of changing his tee shirt or going home. Bretton Barber wore his tee shirt that read “International Terrorist” to school. The tee shirt depicted President Bush with the words go home. More and More these types of shirts are popping up in malls and specialty stores. The majority of sales are to teenagers. The school where Mr. Barber wore the tee shirt is mostly of the Arab American community. There are 17,600 students in the Dearborn school system, of which 55 percent are Arab Americans.

School officials felt that the shirt would incite hostilities among the students, and asked Barber to change into a “Loaner” shirt.
Given the choice, Mr. Barber went home. He claimed he wore the shirt to express his view on the war and that he was anti-war. He said it was for an essay he wrote on both President Bush and Saddam Hussein. School Officials are becoming increasing concerned with the clothing that is being worn to school. For this reason, schools across the country are enacting dress codes for its students. With the culturally diverse mix that is in every school, a dress code can keep everything calm.

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