Posted November 6, 2015 12:41 am by Comments

By Patriot Outdoor News

High school student sent home for wearing a sweatshirt featuring a rifle.

The issues of gun violence in schools clashed with hunting and school dress code in Dixon, Illinois.

Clinton Boyer, 17, wore a yellow sweatshirt featuring a rifle and other hunting gear last Monday. The shirt also had the phrase, “I’ll stop hunting when they pry the gun from my cold dead hands.”

Boyer and his father, who he borrowed the sweatshirt from that morning, are both avid hunters. When he got to school, one of his teachers sent him to the principal’s office for violating the dress code.

“They told me if I don’t take the sweater off or turn it inside out, I would be sent home,” Boyer told Sauk Valley News. “I refused to take it off because it wasn’t against the rules.”

Sauk Valley News said the Dixon High School student handbook states student clothing cannot advertise or promote violent behavior or display “lewd, vulgar, obscene or offensive language or symbols.”

Clinton and his father Derrick argued that the rules don’t say anything specifically about a gun.

School officials, including principal Michael Grady and Superintendent Margo Empen originally declined to comment on the issue. On Wednesday, however, as the story gained traction …Read the Rest

Source:: Patriot Outdoor News

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