4 Students Suspended For Wearing Same Clothes On Same Day

[matcom]

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MARION, Ind. -- A school recently suspended four eighth-grade girls because they wore identical outfits on the same day, some of the girls and their parents said.

Two of the girls, Dacia Small and Mindy Ellis, said McCulloch Middle School officials incorrectly branded them as gang members because of the outfits. The four received a five-day suspension after Principal Michael Shaffer saw their clothes, Small and Ellis said.

"One of the girls asked him what was the matter with it. Then he started yelling at all everybody and took us to the office and suspended us," Small told Indianapolis TV station WRTV.

Shaffer said the girls were suspended because they violated school rules, but he declined to say which rules they broke.

"I can't really address specifically a student discipline issue in regard to a particular student," Shaffer said. "I will tell you that we have a code of conduct here at McCulloch Middle School that we expect all of our students to measure up to. We're talking about a violation of that code of conduct."

The girls, whose suspensions end Tuesday, are in an after-school dance group together, but not a gang, Small said.

"We dressed alike because we are just friends," Small said.

Small's mother, Regina Barnett, said she isn't happy with Shaffer's decision. She said she thought the suspension had to do with the girls being black. Shaffer is white.

"I told him I think it's a racial thing," Barnett said. "He said he didn't appreciate me saying that because he has black friends and this and that," Barnett said.

Barnett said she is worried that the gang allegation would be on her daughter's school record.

"I don't want it on her record that she got kicked out for a gang," Barnett said. "She's not in a gang. I'm not going to let that get stuck on her record."

Barnett said she hoped to talk to the school district's superintendent about the issue.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/9953477/detail.html

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I smell a lawsuit. What an amazing asshole.

I'd be after his job so fast he'd be crying.

[LostinVA]

6. This dude also should know more about girls this age

Many often do things like this.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. At my daughter's high school, (last year) they had

'twin' day, where you dressed alike just for fun. Some of the kids did 'triplet day or quad day'. It's not a big deal.

He's an asshole.

[CBGLuthier]

2. It wasn't the color of their clothes

that bothered this man.

If he were reasonable and actually had a point he would have just sent them home to change.

Just another bigot with power. There are more and more of them every day it seems.

[Mutley]

3. As far as I know

gang members don't wear the same Outfits, they wear the same Colors, right?

WTH is wrong with this guy? :eyes:

[ghostsofgiants]

26. I wonder if his school has any sports teams...

:P

[billyskank]

4. "I can't really address specifically a student discipline issue

in regard to a particular student."

That guy has been learning from Bush. "We're going to execute you, but we can't tell you what you did. That would jeapordise national security."

[calico1]

5. Before I clicked on the link the first thing I

wondered was "are they Black?" Sure enough....
:grr:

[Deep13]

8. "...because he has black friends..."

Ah, that old chesnut.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

11. I'm wondering when he'll say...

"I'm not racist, but..."

[ContraBass Black]

21. Of course.

So, when the football team shows up in uniform...

[Vidar]

9. So much for school uniforms.

[LSK]

10. Terrorists about to attack the flea market!!!!!

:D















(its a joke agent Mike)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

12. Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!

So all those girls coming out of the Catholic school near my house are in a GANG????

Dear Lord! And I've walked past them so many times never fearing for my safety!

:sarcasm:

[Elidor]

13. "I can't really address specifically..."

Yep. He pulled this out of his ass. He can't even say which rule has been violated? What a schmuck.

[Bzzzz]

14. So...

Football players and cheerleaders must be in a gang too. :eyes: What an asswipe...

[Karenina]

15. I'll never forget

being in the subway in Japan at 5 p.m. Suddenly there were people EVERYWHERE including a group of 6 schoolgirls ALL DRESSED UP LIKE MADONNA in her lace and cross phase... That ol' gang o' mine! :rofl:

[cwydro]

16. I'dl like to know

what specifically they were wearing...but oh dear, go to any senior community...have you seen how these old couples like to wear the same clothes...perhaps they should be booted from the assisted living facility:hi:

[texas1928]

17. So on Friday's at my school...

the Cheerleaders were a gang, the football players were a gang, and the band was a gang. During Football season, we all dressed alike for each of the different groups due to the pep rally and travel to games.

[trof]

18. OK. Here they are:

Not to my taste, and a bit revealing.
But...I dunno.
Suspension?
???

[MissMarple]

20. Red, white and blue. They look a bit patriotic.

And it looks like they are wearing outfits for a dance routine. The principal must have weirded out.

[calico1]

23. They look pretty dangerous to me!

:eyes:

[femmocrat]

28. Did anyone say why they chose this particular get-up?

It does look a little peculiar. I have never seen kids wearing suspenders like those... are they in style now? They kind of look like a harness. Maybe they were trying to make some kind of "statement"??? P.S. If you look closely, the girl on the right is wearing a red bra... a fashion no-no, no?

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Pssshhh, a real Skin wouldn't wear their braces so wide.

[maxsolomon]

19. flip flips, jeans & a hoody?

they ALL dress that way.

[Deja Q]

22. Somebody tell walmart to have a wider selection of clothing...

:crazy:

Isn't gang activity usuaslly related to wearing identical copyrighted images? You know, groups of 16 year old boys wearing Dora the Explorer t-shirts and things like that?

[Kutjara]

24. Better kick all those ROTC bastards out too.

They all walk around in the same clothes, acting like they're some kind of army.

And what about all the jocks, strutting around in their letter-jackets? Lose those tossers as well.

[Jamastiene]

25. How stupid can they be?

Maybe, I shouldn't ask. I see how the whole idea of "zero tolerance" has gone too far. It went to far when I was in school too. Now, it has gotten ridiculous.

[KamaAina]

27. So I take it there are no pairs of identical twins at this school?

And never have been as long as this moran has been principal?

Oh, maybe not any black ones, anyway. :grr:

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. Jeez, the girls at my school all dressed like every day....

It was called uniforms!