Was it a "save the boobies one?" I know a lot of schools consider those offensive because of the word boobie and not just in Utah.
They are allowed at the high school I teach at, but at our feeder middle school the kids are dresscoded for it. This is not in Utah. A lot of the rules are stupid, but parents will also complain and want to have you fired at the stupiest little thing. Better to not allow the shirts then to have an very religious parent go to the school board meeting and say their child was subjected to vulgar shirts.
Things like this happen a lot. I have irate religious parents email my principal every year because I talk about sperm meeting egg, I show pictures of embyos, I teach evolution for christ sakes. Parents, yes more than one, have threatened me for teaching their kid evolution. Note I am a biology teacher in high school. These are things that are discussed, but parents complain.
So they are just covering their own ass. They can't have kids walking around in shirts some might consider vulgar and tell their parents, it's not worth it. Yes, I believe most middle schools would send a kid home for that as stupid as it may sound. At our feeder middle school it didn't matter that a student was showing support for his mom that had breast cancer, he was told it was the wording was considered offensive not the message.
I just think it is rediculous. And the poor boy at your school trying to support his mom, how dare they question him.
Thanks for your replies everyone. This really irked my friend and it kinda pissed me off too, so I was just curious what everyones take was on the matter :)
When my daughter was in high school in Utah a few years ago, she got dresscoded for wearing a sleeveless dress. Her shoulders were covered, no cleavage was showing, but the top of her arms were exposed. Many of the girls showed up to school wearing pajama pants, ratty t-shirts and house slippers. The school administrators would rather have the students showing up like they just rolled out of bed then dressed up nicely in a dress.
I turned around just in time to hear the principal "code" an 8th girl at our local school for wearing a T-shirt that said "Itty Bitty Titty Comittee" and I was in total agreement--where were her parents that morning while getting ready for school!?
Well I have to agree with you Thread Killer. No one needs a committee to tell them they have small breasts. But seriously "Breast Cancer Awareness" is in no way offensive.