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Eric W. Dolan
March 23rd, 2011
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/23/aclu-to-defend-student-sent-home-for-wearing-pro-equality-shirt/
An eighth-grade Louisiana student who was sent home from school for wearing a pro-equality shirt is receiving support from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
KTBS reported that De Soto Middle School student Dawn Henderson was ordered to go home after refusing to remove a shirt with the text "Some Kids are Gay. That's OK."
De Soto Middle School Principal Keith Simmons said he sent her home because her shirt was a distraction to other students.
"Students do not give up their free speech rights at the schoolhouse gate," ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director Marjorie R. Esman said in a letter to Simmons. "To allow students to express one kind of opinion but not another is the very definition of censorship, and it violates the Constitutional rights of students like Dawn Henderson, who may have views different from those of her school Principal."