Sorry, but I find that reasonable. Tuck the necklace inside your shirt or put it in your pocket. Unless there's a pattern of some specific discrimination, I'm fine with principals governing what students wear.
I think the inevitable direction of all of this is going to be school uniforms. Not school-issued uniforms, but guidelines -- pants or skirts at least to the knee, shirts buttoned at least to the collarbone, no visible jewelry aside from simple stud earrings and wristwatches. No shirts or jackets with any message other than the school logo.
The necklace was not long enough to tuck anywhere.
It looked hand made (I reconize the beads from teen camp years ago).
The crucifix rested just below his adam apple so he would have to wear a shirt buttoned to the top as if he where to put a tie on.
“sorry, but i find that reasonable...”
sorry, but i find it to be an indication of anti-christian bias. i’ve heard of too many instances of some kid telling another kid that “we don’t like christians in this school.” it’s only an indication that secular parents, who are hostile to any hint of christianity, are infected with bigotry and hatred and would condone such heavy-handed tactics. only a generation ago, such a wearing of a religious symbol would have been dismissed. now, all it takes is the complaint of a son or daughter of a bigot hiding behind the “establishment clause” and the kid wearing the cross gets booted. it doesn’t say anywhere in the constitution that atheism shall be institutionalized, yet that’s what’s happening. they are making the comrades of old very proud.
Which is all anti-liberty BS.
The Founding Fathers would be aghast.