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Student Sent Home For '69' T-Shirt
BOSTON -- A Billerica, Mass., mother is furious after her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for a day from her middle school for wearing a T-shirt that said "SOPHOMORE 69."
Christina Morrison, an eighth-grader at the Marshall Middle School, was sent to the office Tuesday when she arrived at school wearing the shirt. The assistant principal told Morrison and her stepfather that the shirt was "sexually explicit," and that she was being suspended for the day, the Lowell Sun reported.
The teen said she felt like crying because she only wore the shirt she'd recently purchased from a store called Urban Behavior because she liked it.
The school principal, Roland Boucher, said he wouldn't talk about the specific incident, but added that the school's dress code prohibits "any clothing that displays offensive language or images or suggests inappropriate or illegal behavior is not allowed in school."
An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts said she believes such a dress-code clause would violate the state's Student Free Expression Act, which "protects even speech that could be considered 'vulgar, lewd or offensive' as long as it is not disruptive.
Morrison's mother, Kimberly Cifelli, said the school should apologize to her daughter and wants the suspension expunged from Morrison's record. She said she cannot imagine how the school can say the shirt is sexually explicit.
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Posted in: News on May 24, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
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Oh yay.
Another case of TEH ALL IMPORTANT PRINCIPAL just because it isn't their terrible dress sense.
Good. That's right. Suspend somebody for being 'sexually explicit'. What you've done there is 1) made a huge deal out of something nobody would normally care about and 2) done this to a teenager, who are sexually active ANYWAY. What are you trying to do, purify them?
This is a generalization. Yes, I realize it's probably true most of the time, but if it isn't true in this case, it just makes the suspension even stupider, if she didn't even KNOW what the big deal is about the number 69. I don't think I knew anything about that when I was 14... Some people just don't care about stuff like that.
How is a number explict? (even if the number in question is a term used to describe oral sex)
I really doubt that on that shirt it was meant to be "sexually explicit" , she also didn't know what it meant and no matter what you do you will have horny teenagers.