The battlefield cross T-shirt said, “Standing for those who stood for us.”
Eighth-grader Alan Holmes’ T-shirt imagery of a rifle, helmet and boots denoting loss may have symbolized patriotism to him, but not to administrators at Dexter McCarty Middle School in Gresham who demanded the boy change his shirt and then suspended him when he refused.
“I’m not changing into a Dexter shirt,” the 13-year-old said. “They won’t let me wear a shirt that supports the people that keep us free, I’m not going to support them.”
The showdown with the principal over Alan’s T-shirt took place Wednesday while emotions were still roiling in the state over the mass shooting at Umqua Community College that left a teacher and eight students dead.
Source: Fox News
School officials handed down the suspension and then called the boy’s father to come pick him up. The video tells their story…
Charles Holmes said his son only wanted to show support for his older brother who served in Iraq with the Marines.
“Yeah, I’m proud of him,” he said. “I would have done the same thing.”
Fox 12 reported that school officials weren’t commenting on the suspension.
Funny how the liberals are so righteous in their anti-gun stance, yet, the expect people with guns to protect them here and abroad. Eventually, that liberal mindset will be overrun by the radical liberal mindset that we saw in Communist Russia and China — the inept government takes care of it all…and you too…in ways you don’t want to know about.
young man you are doing nothing wrong it’s the legislaters that are doing wrong and they should suspend themselves from school and not you
I’ll second that Mr. Powell
Enjoy home schooling.
Just another school personal that’s wants to suspend everyone so they can get paid for doing nothing
Good for you young man!!! Stand for the American way!!!!!
Wtf!
WTF
If it was a che guevara shirt this whole thing wouldn’t even be happening…
The government should suspend the school’s funding.
Out of control