Student Wins Anti-Bush Shirt Clash

Student Wins Anti-Bush Shirt Clash

LANSDALE, Pa., Dec. 13, 2005
Bretton Barber is shown outside his high school in Dearborn, Mich., Feb. 18, 2003, wearing a black T-Shirt with the words "International Terrorist" framing President Bush's picture. On Tues., Dec. 13, 2005, the ACLU defended Pa. student Chris Schiano's right to wear a similar T-shirt to school. (AP)


The principal says after hearing from the ACLU, school officials realized that the shirt, while potentially offensive, didn't violate the school's dress code.

(AP) A Pennsylvania student is off the hook after the American Civil Liberties Union defended his right to wear a political T-shirt to school.

Chris Schiano's T-shirt said "International Terrorist" and had a picture of President Bush.

A security guard at his high school north of Philadelphia told him to take it off. He refused.

Schiano says he's well versed in the First Amendment. He says he "knew right off they had no legal footing to stand on."

The principal says after hearing from the ACLU, school officials realized that the shirt, while potentially offensive, didn't violate the school's dress code. It had no references to sex, drugs, ethnic intimidation or explicit language. Schiano says he's now wearing the shirt to school and no one's given him a hard time.

In February 2003, school officials ordered a 16-year-old in Michigan to either take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "International Terrorist" and a picture of President Bush or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American. The student, Bretton Barber, chose to go home. He said he wore the shirt to express his anti-war position and for a class assignment in which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Mr. Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.


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as long as the students fight back through the legal system. Unfortunately most kids are too afraid to.

's list of "serious threat" to the, forced upon the united states and the rest of the world, residency of george bush and of his poppy and of his mommy who are at the white house more often than anyone cares to tell us!

Long live the Constitution!
Long live Freedom of Speech!

Abajo con las Bushes!

and has never been approached by school administrators over it. We live in the heart of East TN.