Here ya go! This is a good example of why I home school.
My family would like our fellow Edwards supporters to know that one of his high school supporters in Texas, my son, has received an IN-SCHOOL SUSPENSION FOR WEARING A JOHN EDWARDS T-SHIRT TO SCHOOL, having been told that it is in violation of the new school dress code. Clearly, this violates his protected right to free speech, and is the subject of a federal suit that he anticipates filing within the week, should the situation not be resolved to our satisfaction. We called the campaign to notify, but (understandably) had trouble getting through to anyone who might make the Senator aware of how deeply his supporters feel about his candidacy in Texas. I think this issue would interest Senator Edwards and his campaign staff. We ask that fellow Edwards supporters make both the campaign and their own school districts aware of the fact that political speech does not stop at the schoolhouse door!
This was posted on John Edward's blog and you can read the comments HERE.
Schools should be about educating young people to reason through their individual beliefs and opinions and expressing those individual opinions in a constructive way.
This is a good time to remember that we have an organization that can fight for us when these things happen--ACLU. Don't wait to join!
Do you think this would have happened if the t-shirt said:
God Bless America
or
Long live George Bush?
UPDATE: This is all the information I could find so I don't know if it's true but it sure could be true in Texas.
Honestly, this should not be on the recommended list. The intent was to have a conversation and maybe turn up more information on the story. There are some good comments so I hate to delete the whole thing but you should unrecommend to make way for more substantial diaries. The conversation can continue.
UPDATE II: As I've explained in several comments below, I did not intend to leave the home schooling sentence in this dairy but it's too late to remove it now. I cross posted this from Texas Kaos where they are more tolerant of people's personal choices. I will soon write and post a diary that is about home schooling because many people in this community are not informed. But THIS is not THAT diary.