The following was posted on AOL this evening...
Sept. 23) - An 11-year-old Colorado boy was suspended from school after showing up for class in a T-shirt bearing the handwritten motto "Obama a terrorist's best friend."
Daxx Dalton's dad says the fifth-grader was given the choice of changing his shirt, turning it inside out or being suspended -- and he chose suspension.
Daxx maintains his First Amendment right to free expression was violated, and his dad said he intends to sue. The school district said it respects the right to free speech, but has the responsibility to intervene in any situation that disrupts the learning environment.
Is wearing the t-shirt similar to wearing a black arm band? Probably not since the black arm band had an understood meaning wheareas the t-shirt made a statement that was inflammatory. More importantly, the wearer and the audience who saw the t-shirt are elementary school students. I'm fairly certain that the student's dad will not prevail in court.
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Here's the major news story from a few years ago that likely spawned this incident...
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/youth/11405prs20031001.html
In this case, the student won in a federal court.
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