Really... it's just a friggin shirt!

Daily Mail UK said:

The eighth grader at Genoa-Kingston Middle School complied with his teacher Karen Deverell's instructions, but was visibly upset himself.
'He was upset, he couldn’t understand it,' his father explained. 'He couldn’t understand why a teacher would make him do that.'
He noted that this wasn't the first time his son had worn the shirt to school before but that it was the first time it created a problem.


A father whose 14-year-old son was told by his school teacher to remove his U.S. Marine Corp T-shirt for violating school dress code says it’s the code that needs changing.
Daniel McIntyre of Genoa, Illinois says his son was threatened with suspension on Monday if he didn't hide the T-shirt's emblem that showed the silhouette of two interlocking rifles.
'My son is very proud of the Marines, and, in fact, of all the services, so he wears it with pride,' Mr McIntyre told Fox.

Word of the teacher's action upset the school's superintendent as well.
'Nobody took the next step of asking the principal or making them aware of it,' Genoa-Kingston Superintendent Joe Burgess told FoxNews of what he considered to have been the teacher's responsibility.
'The teacher is obviously allowed to question anything they feel might be a violation of dress code, but again, had an administrator been allowed to respond, this could have been taken care of yesterday,' he said.
On Tuesday the school posted an apology on their website addressed to anyone offended by the teacher's choice of action.

Genoa-Kingston School District wishes to apologize to anyone offended, specifically anyone who has served or has family that has served in the armed forces,' it read.
'Genoa-Kingston Middle School is well known in the community for their support of our military. The students and staff regularly write letters of support to the troops, and hold patriotic ceremonies for Veteran’s Day and Patriot’s Day. We very much support the armed forces and were disheartened to learn of this matter through the media.
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The administration and school handbook agree that this shirt is not a violation of the dress code,' it read.
According to the dress code, students '...may not advertise, promote, or picture alcoholic beverages, illegal drugs, drug paraphernalia, violent behavior, or other inappropriate images.'
'Student dress (including accessories) may not display lewd, vulgar or obscene or offensive language or symbols, including gang symbols,' it continues.
'This policy that they have in place can obviously be loosely interpreted, so they need to change it,' Mr McIntyre said of the code’s content which he thinks has been inflated since last year's deadly school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.

'I backed him up and he knows that,' he said of his son.

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