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5-year-old boy violates school dress code: What do you think of the school's policy?

Print | Comments () Posted by Kristi Palma August 23, 2012 08:35 AM

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A 5 year-old kindergartener named Cooper Barton violated his Oklahoma elementary school's dress code when he went to school in a University of Michigan shirt (his parents attended the school.) School officials demanded he turn his shirt inside out, according to this KWTV report.

School policy says no student can wear any university apparel that displays a school outside the state. Students are also forbidden from wearing professional gear.

What do you think of the school's policy?

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