Can You Wear Campaign T-Shirts to School?

Just a few years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union, presumably thinking they were calling Christian teens' bluff, advised high school students that if they wanted to express religious feelings at school, the way to do it was on T-shirts.

Among other results my alma mater, Gate City High School, where religious-message T-shirts would have been considered tacky in my day, adopted an unofficial "uniform"--sharp-looking royal blue T-shirts with the message "I Still Pray." Alumni who never wore religious-message T-shirts when we were in high school have been seen around town in these shirts. The shirts look surprisingly good on fit and healthy sixty-year-olds.

In Pennsylvania, however, a small, baby-faced sixteen-year-old girl claims that she was loudly taunted and ordered to peel off a Romney campaign T-shirt. Billy Hallowell reports:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/teacher-under-fire-for-allegedly-telling-student-to-remove-pro-romney-t-shirt-likening-it-to-kkk-clothing/

We cannot imagine anyone currently employed as a teacher not realizing that message T-shirts are usually worn as the innermost or the only shirt a teenager has on. Although the teacher in question is female, we recommend a deep probe into her past and current psychological state to uncover the suppressed issues that have to be involved when a teacher tells a sixteen-year-old to strip.