VIRGINIA: “Slogan implies the threat of violence” so inside-out or remove his “Duck Dynasty” T-shirt, Virginia high school student Hunter Spain was told by his school.
According to the WWBT 12 the T-shirt, recently worn by Si Robertson, one of the A&E hit show’s rambunctious personalities, has the words, “I Will Hurt You Physically and Metaphysically,” upon it.
“Duck Dynasty” follows the lives of bearded millionaires who run a duck-call business.
“If you are a ‘Duck Dynasty’ fan, you understand the meaning of the shirt,” David Clark, Dinwiddie High School’s superintendent, told WWBT.
“But if you haven’t watched ‘Duck Dynasty,’ you may question if the shirt implies violence. As a school division, we would like to keep our slogans on student shirts as non-violent as possible.”
The mother of the student in question wasn’t buying Clark’s rationale.
“For this to be considered a threat to the school, I couldn’t understand it,” Hunter’s mom, Edna-Jo Spain, told WWBT, adding her son’s grandmother gave him the controversial T-shirt as a gift.
“[This is] a lady who would not even buy my daughter ripped up jeans to wear to school,” Edna-Jo Spain said. “She viewed that as inappropriate.”
“I’m not going to look stupid in front of all these young ladies in the school,” the student told WWBT. “So I decided to get a different T-shirt.”
Dinwiddie is located south of Richmond in the southeast portion of Virginia in Dinwiddie County.
Many incident of violence have been reported in different schools all over the Unites States not only by the students but from elders as well.
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