[shhrubbery!]

District officials claimed victory in the long legal battle when the [student's] lawsuit was dropped.

Yes, what chutzpah! The school district LOST, big-time: First, an earlier court decision ordered the district to reverse its politically correct, anti-free-speech, zero-tolerance policy.

And now another court has ordered the district to pay the student's attorney's fees also.

(See letter-to-the-editor correcting the Express-Times for their wildly inaccurate previous article that trumpeted the school district's "victory" : Article about T-shirt lawsuit inaccurate).

These poor excuses for "educators" labeled the t-shirt wearing student, Tom Sypniewski, a "racist" without any factual basis whatsoever.

My only regret is that these liars, the school administrators, are not themselves being sued personally for defamation.

[Publius6961]

These poor excuses for "educators" labeled the t-shirt wearing student, Tom Sypniewski, a "racist" without any factual basis whatsoever.

And I would guess that "Queer and Proud" tee shirts are still perfectly acceptable in that school...

[Doomonyou]

Git-R-Done!

[Kolb]

Sorry, I don't agree.

While I think the 3 day suspension was too harsh, they have every right to enforce a dress code policy. Whether wearing a Jeff Foxworthy t-shirt is a racist statement or not is open to interpretation. Personally I am not offended by such garb, but then again school is not the place to make such statements.

There is no abridgment of free speech here. I don't see any proof supplied that indicates the district labeled this person a racist.

Any competent judge should have thrown this out of court when presented and tacked a "stupid tax" on the plaintiff.

I guess this magistrate was a Dem...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What I don't understand is why public school students are allowed to wear shirts with words on them, much less T-shirts, at all.

If you let students dress like gangsters, they will act like gangsters.

If you make them dress like civilized human beings, it is much more likely that they will act like civilized human beings.

[Xenalyte]

School officials said the shirt violated the district dress code, which forbids clothing that portrays "racial, ethnic or religious stereotyping."

When did "redneck" become a race, an ethnicity, or a religion? 'Cause if it's none of those things, it doesn't meet the district's definition.

[Old Professer]

$600,000 to prove stupid is stupid; now, that's stupid.

[Coleus]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY THOMAS SYPNIEWSKI,