Otherwise, students had to abide by the dress code, which for boys includes solid-colored polo shirts and either black, blue or tan slacks.
The school for most days has a pretty strict dress code. Something in this day of students wearing almost anything I know a lot of Freepers support. They relaxed it one day, but not much.
"No student was forced to wear Seahawks colors.
Ms. Flores added that Grendon could have complied with school rules and still supported the Steelers by wearing black pants and a yellow polo shirt.
But Mr. Bailie noted, "He doesn't have a yellow polo shirt. Everything is black and gold."
So wear a gold polo shirt! The dad is just making excuses at this point. Mr. Bailie conceded he "planted the seed" for his son's blitz of Seahawks Appreciation Day because he and his family have no appreciation for Seattle fans constantly bellyaching that Pittsburgh won Super Bowl XL by a score of 21-10 only because of blown referee calls.
"We take a lot of abuse from Seattle fans. I can't go to a grocery store if I'm wearing Steeler stuff -- which is always -- without hearing from little old ladies, 'You cheated in the Super Bowl.'
Here we get the the bottom line. The dad was tired of hearing it from Seahawks fans, and was using his son to strike back.
He should be teaching his son that there is a time and a place for everything, and you must show show common sense as well. Like if you show up at an opposing teams rally wearing the wrong colors, it's not going to be all hugs and kisses.
Well, if the little darlin had got the living crapola beat out of himself by other students, 99% of the people would say it was the schools fault.
Considering the excitement about this weekends playoff game... IMHO the school did the right thing.
Boy, can the old man whine or what??
I wear Cleveland Browns and Indians jerseys and sweatshirts quite a bit here in Chicago and catch some heat for it but that just goes with the territory.