A California school apologized Thursday to a student whom administrators forced to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt she wore to class, the Los Angeles Times reported.
School officials at Canyon High in Anaheim told the girl, 16, that she would face disciplinary action if she didn’t remove the shirt. The girl’s parents told the Times that their daughter had put on the shirt, which her father received when he joined the NRA, in her hurry to find something to wear before school.
The T-shirt was printed with a hunter’s silhouette holding a rifle and read “National Rifle Association of America, Protecting America’s Traditions Since 1871,” according to the newspaper. School officials said the image of the rifle violated the school’s dress code by depicting violence.
The girl’s parents wrote to the school’s principal arguing administrators had violated their daughter’s constitutional rights, according to the Times. Principal Kimberly Fricker later reviewed the image on the shirt and determined it did not promote violence, according to a statement from the Orange Unified School District.
