Gay Student In T-Shirt Suit Quits School

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/12/121004tshirt.htm

A student who filed a lawsuit after he was prohibited from wearing gay pride-themed T-shirts to class (story) has dropped out of school, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union said.

A lawyer for the Webb City School R-7 School District said Brad Mathewson's decision Thursday to leave school could derail the lawsuit, which claims school administrators violated his constitutional rights when they banned his shirts.

Chris Hampton, a spokeswoman for the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, disagreed. She pointed to seven other high school students who were sent home Nov. 30 after they refused to change out of the homemade T-shirts they wore to class in support of Mathewson, 16. (story)



I don't understand how his dropping out would affect the suit--other suits have been won by students who have left school but the events happened while they were still enrolled

I think this is the school district blowing smoke

So much for No Child Left Behind. Thanks to him and his fundy followers' hostile climate, more kids are dropping out of schools due to intolerance and harassment. Tell me, am I the only one who notices that almost everything The Shrub has done has been very ironic and brought results the opposite of what he claimed were his intentions? (Another example is the attack of iraq, which Shrubby bragged would bring freedom but has now allowed the fundamentalists there to rise and just might bring about a theocracy).