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A Louisiana high school student was sent home Friday for wearing a Colts jersey to class a day after the principal encouraged the student body to wear New Orleans Saints' black and gold.

"If they tell other students to support their team, why can't I support mine?" said Brandon Frost, 17.

Frost, a senior at Maurepas High School, moved from Indianapolis three years ago.

He claims the principal pulled him out of class and addressed Frost angrily.

"I don't recall saying you could wear a Colts jersey on Black-and-Gold day," the principal said according to Frost.

"Then he started to get angry," Frost observed. "I thought I remember him saying, 'If you like Indiana so much, why don't you go back?'"

A school board member says Frost was informed he could not wear blue. Maurepas has a dress code that was relaxed strictly for Saints colors.

The Louisiana ACLU director stepped in to have Frost's disciplinary record expunged.

"Louisiana would be proud of him anyway," said Frost's father. "He wore [LSU alum] Joseph Addai's jersey."

The principal's behavior, if it was as Frost recounted, was clearly out of line. And sending the boy home from school seems excessive. However, it sounds like Frost was specifically informed Colts colors weren't allowed at the uniform-requiring school, and simply chose to be rebellious.
 
Sounds like a brat with parents that don't show any ability to discern context.

1- School has dress code.
2- Principal relaxes dress code for locals to wear Saints gear.
3- Student violates spirit and letter of rules, useing a nonsensical argument.
4- Student gets upset that he got a reaction he was looking for.

C'mon mom and dad. Get it together. It's not the kids fault for being a kid. You're the parents.
 
GoonBoss said:
Sounds like a brat with parents that don't show any ability to discern context.

1- School has dress code.
2- Principal relaxes dress code for locals to wear Saints gear.
3- Student violates spirit and letter of rules, useing a nonsensical argument.
4- Student gets upset that he got a reaction he was looking for.

C'mon mom and dad. Get it together. It's not the kids fault for being a kid. You're the parents.
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If it is a private school with a dress code, that is one thing. If it is a public school that is another. I have three kids in school, none of them have restrictions on sports gear. If that was the case, I wouldn't mind one bit.

If this is a condemnation of this kids right to support his team, for no reason other than the saints are playing the colts, that I have a problem with.
 
FinFan 13 said:
If it is a private school with a dress code, that is one thing. If it is a public school that is another. I have three kids in school, none of them have restrictions on sports gear. If that was the case, I wouldn't mind one bit.

If this is a condemnation of this kids right to support his team, for no reason other than the saints are playing the colts, that I have a problem with.
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I can agree with that to an extent.
 
Anyone think the school might have sent him home to prevent him from being physically harmed? One kid wearing the opposition's jersey in a sea of black and gold sounds like he was asking for trouble or a distraction at the very least.
 
Ti Rider said:
Anyone think the school might have sent him home to prevent him from being physically harmed? One kid wearing the opposition's jersey in a sea of black and gold sounds like he was asking for trouble or a distraction at the very least.
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It doesn't sound like it since the principal supposedly got mad at him.
 
GoonBoss said:
Sounds like a brat with parents that don't show any ability to discern context.

1- School has dress code.
2- Principal relaxes dress code for locals to wear Saints gear.
3- Student violates spirit and letter of rules, useing a nonsensical argument.
4- Student gets upset that he got a reaction he was looking for.

C'mon mom and dad. Get it together. It's not the kids fault for being a kid. You're the parents.
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if it is a private School then fine a dress code is fine but a public school you cant tell a student what jersey he has to wear that would be like me being in NY and the jets in the super bowl and i wear my dolphins Jersey to school they cant tell you what team you have to wear if he is a colts fan he should have every right to wear his colts jersey
 
The only way the principal has a point is if this is a PRIVATE school and the kids have uniforms, but the principal relaxed the dress code for Saints colors only. If that is the case, then the kid was wrong, though that principal is out of line with the yelling.

Other than that, you can't tell this kid what to wear. Schools have spirit friday's and are told to wear their school colors . . . . doesn't mean u get sent home from school if u don't wear them. **** is just dumb.
 
why could the kid sue? get over it kid you broke the rules...

theres a dress code so everyone can only wear what they are TOLD they can wear correct? so if the dress code changed to only allow black and gold, and you wear something else, then you violated the dress code, pretty simple...

the dress code could have been switched to wearing pink tutus, and if you wear a blue tutu, you would be violating the dress code, the fact that it was jersey related doesnt even matter here... apparently it was you can wear something black and gold instead of the standard school uniform... if you aren't wearing that black and gold, im sure you still had to be wearing your standard school uniform, this kid wasn't
 
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