Father filed a lawsuit against Ohi school district He claims that he “punished” his son for wearing a shirt “Let’s Go Brandon” to school.
The lawsuit, received by Fox News Digital, states a teacher and principal at Madison High School in Mansfield The first student of the student Free speech and 14. amendment the right to procedure when he was fined several times for wearing his shirt to school.
The first incident occurred in November, according to the lawsuit, when the boy wore a T -shirt under a flannel shirt in the hall before it was created.
The teacher, identified as a registered Democrat in the appeal, allegedly forced the boy to raise the shirt to cover the message, telling him, “I know what that means.”
“Let’s go Brandon!” Login to the Grand Park in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The next incident happened later during the day, when the boy attended the class of the same teacher.
The student allegedly removed his flannel to cool down, but when the teacher again noticed a T -shirt, she issued a “pink skating” to the boy and sent him to the Director’s Office for the discipline.
According to the complaint, the main “was asked for” the boy carries a flannel for the rest of the day and “never carry the subject that communicates with the content of this speech again.”
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Participants of Masha Transparenters “Let’s Go Brandon” at the Don’t Terd on Florida campaign event with the Florida Ron Desantis Government in Fort Myers, Fla. (Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images)
The third incident happened when a student wore the same T -shirt again in January, when the teacher who was involved in November noticed him noticed and pulled him aside and asked, “Do you like to offend people?” According to the appeal.
“That’s not my problem, no one has to read my shirt,” the boy replied, and the teacher allegedly gave him a “dirty look” and left.
Later, the director met with the boy and his father Richard Conrad, and claimed that the phrase was a “code” for a vulgar term. However, his father claimed that he was not interpreted by the slogan.
The fourth incident occurred when the boy was detained by the principal for wearing a shirt to school on March 24. The school sent to her father by email about the boy’s “repeated violations” of the student code of behavior, which he said was set up for the Education Committee.
The appeal states School dress code is “unconstitutionally vague” and gives some employees too much discretion in conduct.
Protesters welcome a motorcycle with President Joe Biden on February 10, 2022 in Culpeper, Va. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
IN “Let’s go Brandon” Catchphrase, used by American conservatives to criticize Biden, is originally in October 2021.
The term is cut during the interview of NASCAR and is replaced by G-Oil for “F- Joe Biden” singer popular during Coid-19 pandemic. The explicit saying is recited at sports events across the country in defiance of the president’s mandate of Koronavirus.
Conrad’s lawsuit claims that the phrase is “a popular expression of the opinion of certain people towards US media and politics” and is not vulgar.
Local school -based supervisor Madison Robert Peterson told Fox News Digital that he was aware of the lawsuit, but could not comment on any details because it was actively litigation.
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Madison High School in Mansfield, Ohio (Google Maps)
In 2023, two students who were forbidden to wear clothing with the same phrase to school filed a lawsuit against their school neighborhood in Michigan.
District and his employees were “censoring students trying to support former President Donald Trump or opposition to President Joe Biden,” ” According to the appeal Submitted to the US District Court for the Western Michigan District, the South Department.
The Ecanical Rights and Expression Foundation (fire), which describes itself as a “non -partisan, non -profit organization dedicated to defense and maintaining individual rights of all Americans for freedom of speech and free thought,” represented the students of the Secondary School of Three County who sued the school district for working discrimination after removing the 20th year in February.
In a similar situation as Conrad’s, Assistant Director and teacher “ordered the boys to remove their duxes” for allegedly violating the Dress Code, while allowing other students to wear other political clothing such as “hooded homosexuals,” said Fire.
President Joe Biden speaks in the Garden of Rose in the White House 26 November 2024. In Washington, DC (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cnet)
“Criticism of the President is a fundamental political speech protected by the first amendment,” Fire Lawyer Conor Fitzpatrick said earlier. “Whether it’s a biden label,” Let’s go Brandon ‘T -shirt or a gay pride T -shirt, schools can’t choose which political beliefs students can express. “
The fire said the incident that included two students was part of the “political favorism pattern” of the school district to “misunderstand the policy that forbids” profane clothing for censorship of this special message “.
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“When the school district relaxed Dress Code for Field Day, the school administrator ordered the student to stop carrying Trump’s flag as a RT, but allowed other students to wear gay proud flags in the same way,” the group said in a press release that announced the lawsuit.
“The slogan exists as a way of expressing Anti-Beden’s message without using the passage,” Fitzpatrick said. “The public school district cannot censor the speech just because it could make someone think about curses.”
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Margolis and Kyle Morris contributed to this report.
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