{"id":2980,"date":"2007-10-04T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:35:58","slug":"waxahachie-isd-student-suspended-for-john-edwards-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/waxahachie-isd-student-suspended-for-john-edwards-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Waxahachie ISD student suspended for John Edwards shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <del datetime=\"2007-10-04T15:08:51+00:00\">haven&#8217;t<\/del> hadn&#8217;t seen this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailylight.com\">WDL<\/a> or on other media, but <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolannex.com\/2007\/10\/03\/waxahachie-student-suspended-for-wearing-john-edwards-tee-shirt\/\">Capital Annex in <del datetime=\"2008-04-01T20:57:29+00:00\">Austin<\/del> East Texas<\/a> reports that a local student was suspended for wearing a <strong>John Edwards<\/strong> t-shirt to school.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailylight.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/04\/dailylight\/news\/03-10-03-wisd.txt\">WDL had a report yesterday<\/a> that I missed.<br \/>\nApparently <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdfw.com\/myfox\/pages\/Home\/Detail?contentId=4531622&amp;version=4&amp;locale=EN-US&amp;layoutCode=TSTY&amp;pageId=1.1.1\">Fox 4<\/span> picked up the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One Waxahachie family is threatening to go to court after their son was booted from school for wearing a t-shirt supporting a presidential candidate.<br \/>\n<strong>Pete Palmer<\/strong>, a sophomore at Waxahachie High School, says he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think he was doing anything wrong when he wore a John Edwards 2008 shirt to school.<br \/>\nBut according to the district, shirts with political slogans are against dress code policy.<br \/>\nWaxahachie High School officials told Pete he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wear it.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It had nothing to do with trying to stifle anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s free speech,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said <strong>Thomas J. Collins<\/strong>, WISD Superintendent.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was an opportunity for us to continue to try and maintain a safe and orderly environment. The dress code gives us the tools to make a decision on what is right and what isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Collins added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WISD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dress code reads as follows:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153T-shirts, other than WISD clubs, organizations, sports, or spirit t-shirts, college or university t-shirts, or solid-colored t-shirts, are prohibited.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t hadn&#8217;t seen this in the WDL or on other media, but Capital Annex in Austin East Texas reports that a local student was suspended for wearing a John Edwards t-shirt to school. The WDL had a report yesterday that I missed. Apparently Fox 4 picked up the story: One Waxahachie family is threatening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/waxahachie-isd-student-suspended-for-john-edwards-shirt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waxahachie ISD student suspended for John Edwards shirt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[70,4645,72,71],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellis-county","category-politics","tag-john-edwards-t-shirt","tag-politics","tag-waxahachie-high-school","tag-waxahachie-isd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-M4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10918,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}