Posted on 06/03/2016 7:43:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
One local Trump supporter is being banned from wearing a signature Donald Trump hat to school after it began to draw tense conversations.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- One local Trump supporter is being banned from wearing a signature Donald Trump hat to school after it began to draw tense conversations.
Logan Autry left Powers-Ginsburg Elementary School early on Thursday because school leaders said something he was wearing is causing a safety concern on campus-- his red hat.
"The vice principal came up to me and told me to take my hat off because it brings negative attention from other students. And I said no a few times and then the principal told me again and I still said no and refused," said Logan Autry.
For three days straight the third grader wore the hat to class. But each day, more and more classmates began confronting him at recess.
"I still want to keep my hat. It's not the hat that draws attention, it's just my personality that the other children do not like," said Autry.
Autry recently moved to Fresno from the foothills, he loves politics and American history.
"He knows more than I do. He knows more about this election than I know, it's kind of embarrassing. You know, like are you smarter than a third grader kinda thing. But he is just very adamant about his beliefs and his rights. He wants to be a politician that's his goal," said Angela Hoffknecht, Logan's guardian.
He already has the shirt and tie down, and practices speeches about Trump on the playground.
"I've told them his policies on illegal immigration, and our second amendment, and our first amendment and all of our amendments that need to be protected which are not going to be an amendment at all if Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders gets elected," said Autry.
Autry got his $20-- now, controversial-- hat when he skipped school to attend a Trump rally last week.
"He doesn't speak like a politician. He speaks like a normal person. He knows what this country needs."
Autry briefly met the presidential hopeful during his local stop and even got his hat autographed.
"I got to shake his hand and I felt his hair too, and it's actually real. On the TV it looks not real, but it like, has a blur but when you see it in real life it looks a lot different."
From the mouth of a nine-year-old who won't back down from upper graders, or district officials, who say they are out to protect him and everyone else on school grounds.
With school almost out Logan's family members are trying to offer him alternative hats to wear, such as one with an American flag. But, so far he has not been willing to swap out his red one.
That nine year has bigger balls than most adults.
Learn how to read.
He only wore the hat outside the classroom.
I read well.
I don’t give a damn where he wore it.
You condone turning a 9 year old away from his adolescence
into a political pawn.
No hats in school. Ball hats on the field with team logo.
Let kids play.
Learn how to reead.
The article says he wore the hat at recess.
As if I would I would need to tell you that if you could read.
No hats at school.
School hats on the ball field.
Let kids play.
Next your going to to tell me he wore it during lunch.
YOU MISS THE POINT.
“No hats at school.
School hats on the ball field.
Let kids play.”
Sounds like you are for fascism not play.
No.
At school they are in charge of programming sheep.
Get your kids the hell out of there.
Well, I could never wear a hat at school. Cover was never allowed.
I could say whatever I wanted and did quite a bit.
I guess I’m trying to protect the right to be a child.
The kid should remind those who question his liking of Trump, “Some people in this world have a problem figuring out their gender. Trump supporters don’t have that problem.”
When I was in grammar school& high school back 50s, we weren’t allowed to wear hats or caps of any kind inside the building.
For three days straight the third grader wore the hat to class.
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(From the article.)
They can change their minds, but they cant change me.
— Jim Croce
What makes you think the parents, guardians, had anything to do with this at all? I see nothing in this article that even remotely suggests that the guardians coerced, indoctrinated, or otherwise influenced this child to be a Trump supporter. In fact the female guardian seems rather disinterested in politics.
I have a problem with children carrying the parents sword.
If this child made the determination to understand politics to the level of Trump at 9 years old, that’s stupid.
Let children be children.
What candidates hat were you spouting everyday with your hat at 9 years of age?
In all Honesty I was a Nixon fan but hats in my school were still not allowed.
"I got to shake his hand and I felt his hair too, and it's actually real. On the TV it looks not real, but it like, has a blur but when you see it in real life it looks a lot different."
The child has a hero. Hats are permitted in this school.
Your constant harping on your childhood hat aversion is projecting very strange vibes.
They do exist. Not all people are in reality, created equal, by any stretch of the imagination. Again, you are reading something into the article that does not exist and allowing your own biases to drive your thinking. I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying you may indeed be wrong. However, until there can be confirmation, which is not available in this article, then you perhaps should not be making accusations that you can not substantiate.
Lots of things that we were not allowed to do, as well as a lot of things we were allowed to do, do not apply in the schools today.
Heck, we even got a real education back then, perhaps not as good as those who came before us, but certainly better than those who followed us.
Well, my parents were for Nixon, so I naturally was as well. I was devastated when Nixon lost to JFK in the mock election we held in class. I was for him, and even liked him after he resigned in disgrace. It wasn’t until much later that I saw Nixon as one of the worse Presidents, especially on the Republican side. He was more liberal than conservative to be sure, and some of his legacies are biting us in the tail to this day, like the EPA that he created by executive order.
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