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Article: Civics lessons: schools frown on political speech.(Citings)
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- Reason
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- February 1, 2005
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Brad Mathewson was more than a little surprised when school officials at Webb City High School in Missouri called him into the principal's office for wearing an "offensive" T-shirt. After all, the shirt merely bore the name of a club from his previous high school in Fayetteville, Arkansas: "FHS Gay Straight Alliance."
When he came to school wearing another shirt with a gay pride message, he was sent home. On his return, he noticed that administrators didn't seem to have a similar problem with bumper stickers supporting the state's anti-gay marriage amendment or T-shirts declaring, "God Made Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve."
Mathewson's experience, ...