Some high schools apparently want to ruin students’ experiences with absurd disciplinary measures. A couple of months ago, a student was suspended over an innocent knee-length dress. Now, at a different high school, a student wearing “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian” T-Shirt gets suspension.
South Carolina news station WSPA reports that openly lesbian high school student Briana Popour was suspended for wearing a T-shirt that read: “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian.” Popour said she was told her shirt was disruptive and an administrator stated, “You need to change your shirt or go home.” The news station contacted the school, located in Chesnee, SC, to ask about Popour’s suspension. “They didn’t call us back,” WSPA writes, “but the district sent us an email saying the shirt was ‘offensive and distracting,’ with links to the dress code policy.
Popour says the shirt represents her identity. “Isn’t that what school is supposed to teach you?” she said. “To be happy with who you are?….”
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