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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Mitt Romney has called a 16-year-old Philadelphia girl who says she was mocked by her geometry teacher for wearing a Romney T-shirt in class. Romney campaign spokeswoman Kate Meriwether tells The Philadelphia Inquirer ( http://bit.ly/STYEiS ) the Republican presidential candidate called Samantha Pawlucy (pah-LOOS'-ee) on Wednesday.

SAMANTHA PAWLUCY, the Port Richmond teen embroiled in a high school controversy over her T-shirt choice, will no longer attend Charles Carroll High School, her attorney and her father confirmed Wednesday. "She's totally uncomfortable. She doesn't want to go back there," said Richard Pawlucy, the student's father. He and his wife, Kristine, also pulled their two other daughters from the school. Samantha wore a pink Romney/Ryan T-shirt to Carroll High on "Dress Down Day" nearly two weeks ago. Her geometry teacher, Lynette Gaymon, asked her to leave the class and wondered why she was wearing a Republican top at a...

A Philadelphia high school teacher is under investigation after she reportedly ordered a student to take off a t-shirt supporting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and compared the shirt to a Ku Klux Klan sheet. The incident occurred at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond. When the student refused the order, she tried to throw the girl out of class. The teacher reportedly told the 16-year-old student that the high school was a “Democratic school” and then threatened to use a marker to cross out Romney’s name. Philadelphia School District spokesman Fernando Gallard confirmed to Philly.com that, “a teacher made...