High school punishes kids for wearing Christmas sweaters
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I think the ironic celebration of the holidays in the form of gaudy Christmas sweaters is kind of lame. But one Virginia high school's punishment of a group that called themselves the "Christmas Sweater Club" just seems ridiculous, even by oversensitive public school standards.
One of the students involved told WUSA that the school said they were "maliciously wounding other kids."
The Club believes that the accusation stems from them throwing candy canes to other students at the halls.
Another club member told WUSA that an administrator told him that "the candy canes could be used as weapons by sucking on them and making them have sharp points." The student said that no one had done that [ED. NOTE: Presumably because this isn't "OZ" and most high school aged kids tend not to need to shiv someone in the cafeteria].
When reached for comment, school principal Amy Etheridge-Conti said they did more than hand out candy and cheer, but she refused to comment specifically on the matter.
So in summary, no one involved seems to know what they did wrong. And it couldn't be THAT serious, i.e. they didn't viciously sodomize freshman boys in the locker room while wearing Christmas sweaters, since they only got detention and clean-up duty. Unless sodomizing freshman boys is so common at this high school that it's now a slap on the wrist punishment. Hmm. What's your deal, Battlefield High School?
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