 Student asked to Hide Pentacle Under Shirt or Be Suspended2000-SEP-27: Brownsville, PA: Ken Scott, a senior at Brownsville Area High School and a Wiccan was suspended for one day for dress code violations. He said that he was told by school administrators that he could not wear his pentacle to school unless he hid it under his shirt. His mother said that she was told the same thing. The administrators insist that they never said that; they objected to his torn pants, spikes on his bracelets and T-shirt. In an apparently self-contradictory statement, Superintendent Gerry Grant said: "It's a dress code violation. It definitely was not religion. The T-shirt gave the appearance of the devil. That is offensive to other kids." His mother, a nurse and Southern Baptist said that although he was an honor student, he was an angry and belligerent teen-ager before he found Wicca. She said: "It's a 180-degree turn. He used to be very mean and rebellious. Whatever I would say, he would take the opposite. He's not mean anymore." |
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