Mediaite--An Oregon middle schooler was suspended recently for wearing a shirt to school supporting American troops because the shirt had a picture of a rifle on it.
Alan Holmes‘ shirt read ‘Standing for those who stood for us,’ and featured an image of a “battlefield cross,” an arrangement of a troop’s boots, helmet, and gun that commonly serves as a memorial for fallen comrades. But Dexter McCarty Middle School’s vice principal and principal asked Holmes to change.
The eighth-grader — whose brother served in the Marines — refused to change into a school shirt. “They won’t let us support the people who keep us free, I’m not going to support them,” he told a local Fox affiliate.
When his father learned the reason his son was suspended, he defended Alan and went to the press. “I would have done the same thing,” he said.
Blog Author's Comments -- Do adults still run most schools? Over the past few years in many schools it does not seem so. The theme of the shirt was support for our military, not support for guns. I feel sad for my country when I realize that there are so many terrible "educators" in charge of the children in many schools.
