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  • Student Wearing Pro-War T-Shirts Told to Take off While Anti-War Shirts are OK, Edison, NJ

    10/24/2003 7:23:17 PM PDT · by Coleus · 48 replies · 565+ views
    <p>Shaun Chichester says he was just expressing his outrage when he wore a "Whaq Iraq" T-shirt to J.P. Stevens High School in Edison last spring.</p> <p>But when school officials asked him to remove the shirt, he really got mad.</p> <p>Chichester, then a sophomore, removed the shirt without incident but vowed to change the school district's dress code, saying it violated his First Amendment rights to free speech. He petitioned school authorities shortly after the March 21 incident, asking them to adopt rules "reflecting students' free speech rights."</p>