Which means he was told 40 times his attire violated the dress code. I'd say this kid definitely lacks respect for authority.
We had government schools telling us that we couldn’t bring Bibles to school in the 80s. We resisted and won.
Did we lack ‘respect for authority’?
Challenging ‘authority’ is a patriotic American quality.
“Which means he was told 40 times his attire violated the dress code. I’d say this kid definitely lacks respect for authority.”
So in your world the young man should have just submitted to the pressure of the school’s authority to limit his free speech.
Do you value your own freedoms?
At what point would you take action to protect your own rights and those of others, and what would that action be?
This young man went to the courts to secure his (and our) freedoms, and seems to have a fair chance of winning.
PS - I doubt you will answer the second question above directly, because I doubt you have really thought this through.