5-year-old Cooper Barton wore his favorite Michigan shirt to Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City and was told it violated the Oklahoma City Public Schools dress code and was asked to turn the shirt inside out.
According to the school’s dress code, students are only allowed to wear Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or apparel from another Oklahoma state school. Everything else is a violation, reported Yahoo.
“They should really worry about academics. It wasn’t offensive. He’s 5,” Cooper’s mother Shannon Barton told News9.com.
The dress code also prohibits professional apparel.
According to News9.com, the Oklahoma City Public Schools dress code was created in 2005 as part of a way to rid schools of gangs and gang apparel.
But I don’t think anyone believes that a 5-year-old was dressing to be a part of a gang so school may have to visit their dress policy.
On another note Jordan Griffith, a 13-year-old student at South Jones Elementary School in Mississippi,was also told by his teacher to turn his shirt inside out. Griffith wore the shirt in support of his brother, who was deployed to Afghanistan, but his teachers thought that its depiction of the United States Marine Corps bulldog’s testicles on the back was too much.
The front read, “If you are not the lead dog,” and the back read, “The view never changes.”
