LOGAN, W.Va., April 21 (UPI) — A 14-year-old West Virginia student was suspended from school, arrested and faces charges for wearing a T-shirt to school supporting the NRA, his family said.
Jared Marcum, an eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W. Va., said school officials asked him to remove his shirt, and when he didn’t, suspended him from school.
“What they’re doing is trying to take away my rights, my freedom of speech and my Second Amendment,” Jared told WOWK-TV, Charleston, W. Va., Friday.
Jared’s father, Allen Lardieri, said the school has failed to answer any questions about his son’s case.
“I’m still confused, thoroughly confused,” he said. “They school didn’t even make a statement to the news agencies, much less myself.”
“They gave me no paperwork, all they said to my mother was not to bring me back to school the next day,” Jared added.
One question some sources had is why children aren’t allowed to wear clothing depicting firearms when there is a statue of a soldier carrying a gun and a grenade in the school parking lot, WOWK reported.
“You can take the firearms out of the equation, what this about is fundamental rights,” Lardieri said.
Benjamin White, Jared’s lawyer, said he’ll work on having the charges — obstruction and disturbing the education process — dropped, then file any federal or civil suits.
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
Teacher and principle done this is in West Virginia, I got me some kin folk lives there. Them two picked the wrong state to pull this shit, it will not suprise me if there dead real soon.
Good job kid! We need more people like you to stand up for what’s left of our freedoms. Too many people willing to sit down and say, “I won’t do that because someone might be offended,” or “I don’t like that, so it should be changed.” If you don’t like it, don’t look.
When we stop standing up to oppression is when we lose all our freedoms.
Good job kid.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/22/west-virginia-teen-arrested-over-nra-shirt-returns-to-class/?test=latestnews
“Jared’s father Allen Lardieri says he’s angry he had to rush from work to pick his son up from jail over something he says was blown way out of proportion.”
Wow not only suspended but arrested as well. For what?
“13 News was contacted by Benjamin White, the attorney handling Jared’s case. White says first, they’ll be working on getting the charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, dropped.”
Obstruction and disturbing the educational process . . watch him boys he’s a fearly dangerous man.
“The Logan County School District’s dress code policy prohibits clothing that displays profanity, violence, discriminatory messages and more but nowhere in the document does it say anything about gun images.”
Must have been really bad. Suspend and arrested. It had to be a really frightening image. Should have burned the shirt right away.
“The eighth grader taken out of school on April 18 for refusing to change his shirt has returned to school today, in the same shirt.”
Hmmm wasn’t that bad at all.
I agree with you, Katie. For millions of reasons. Economics, education, moral, and decency. I don’t think a uniform is the answer, but more narrow guidelines should be enforced. Long pants without holes or decorations and shirts with fronts and backs and sleeves without decorations ought to be pretty easy to figure out1
I don’t think kids should be wearing shirts with logos at all. Many public schools do not allow any type of logo on clothing. Plain tops and pants. Period. Great idea.
I also would sue the school…Jim
I have no problem with the swastika on T shirts, it kind of goes along with the happy face, like have a good day. It’s how uninformed people interpret the symbol that’s the problem….
Kids get sent home everyday for wearing shirts with swastikas, marijuana plants, bad language and lots of other stuff on them. Is a gun a special kind of item? Why is his shirt any better than the swastika shirt? The marijuana shirt?
School administrators have to attempt to maintain a level of civility and calmness in their buildings filled with teenage hormones, and that shirt was sure to create problems. Just like the other two.
Why the nasty comments? I’d be interested to see what you all think of a kid getting kicked out for having a swastika on his shirt.
Them communists that say no NTA T shirt is awful stupid, they pick West Virginia to make there stand. I bet there dead in a couple weeks. And good riddence.
Chipping away at our rights, a little at a time. Soon we’ll all be wearing the classic concentration camp stripes..
Just have to wonder if they would have suspended the kid for wearing a Osama Obama/Slow Joe Biden shirt?
Refused to obey a school official. Got what he deserved.
I would sue their ass. 1st Amendment violation. Lawyer up!