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T-Shirt Design Sparks Court Case

A federal lawsuit has started over children wearing T-Shirts in school. In 2003, the Beaubien School on the Far Northwest Side that serves gifted and normal students decided to hold an election to choose an eighth-grade T-Shirt. The design that the gifted students created lost and the school officials did not announce the vote count so the students came to the conclusion that the school officials had fixed the results because of the design. The "gifties" decided to make T-Shirts with their chosen design regardless and wore them to school. The principal decided to impose disciplinary measures like confining the students and not letting them attend after school clubs.

The lawyers that represent the Chicago Public Schools have said that the T-Shirts could create trouble with the regular students. One of the students has a lawyer for a mother so perhaps this is why the lawsuit started. The case refers to the First Amendment rights for children that don't exist and demanded damages from the school district and expungement of the disciplinary measures from the students' records. The case is now waiting to be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. One of the kids is quoted as saying, "If we stop now, it'll be four years of nothing." We have news for him: Most of us think it has already been four years of nothing. This case is seen as extremely frivolous and unnecessary.