No Tolerance for Tie-Dye
When Alex Henry, 12, got home from Vista Middle School in Bellingham, Wash., her mother noticed the girl was dejected and went straight to her room. Alex, who has learning disabilities, normally enjoys school. Then her mother noticed that under her favorite tie-dye shirt, which she wore almost every day, she was wearing another shirt that the school made her put on. Why? she asked the girl. “I don’t know,” was the reply. Isschar Strode had to call the principal the next day to find out: the girl’s shirt was “inappropriate” because it “hung too low in the front” when she bent over to do her schoolwork. “The only thing that shows is a scar from open heart surgery and her collarbones,” Strode complained. And where did Alex get that shirt in the first place? From the school: it was a class project last year to make them. (RC/Bellingham Herald) ...How appropriate.Original Publication Date: 25 September 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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