A Shattuck Middle School student and his mother are suing an associate principal at the Neenah school, for not letting him wear shirts with guns on them.
A gun rights law firm in northern Georgia is representing Kelly Jacob and the boy in the federal lawsuit.
They claim Associate Principal David Sonnabend told the boy he couldn’t wear a T-shirt earlier this month, and the mother’s boyfriend brought a sweatshirt to school to wear over it. The sweatshirt says “I’m a Patriot. Weapons are part of my religion,” with a medieval helmet and two antique rifles on it.
The boyfriend took the boy home, when the student couldn’t wear that either.
The lawsuit says the next day, the boy wore a Smith and Wesson shirt with the company’s logo and a revolver on it. They say Sonnabend told the boy to cover it with a sweatshirt.
The lawsuit claims the school dress code isn’t specific enough, and shirts fall under the freedom of speech protections in the 1st Amendment.
The student and his mother aren’t asking for money from the district.
