Girl Sues School Over
Confederate Clothes
By AP from the
washingtonpost.com on the Web, March 31, 2006
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Candice Michele Hardwick, center, and her
parents, Daryl and Prescilla, hold up some of the T-shirts that the
Latta school officials deemed was disruptive during a news
conference Thursday, March 30, 2006, at the Federal Courthouse in
Florence, S.C. The Southern Legal Resource Center is filing a
federal lawsuit on behalf of Candice Hardwick, a Latta High School
student who was punished for wearing Confederate-themed clothing to
class. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain) |
FLORENCE, S.C. Mar. 30 -- The family
of a high school sophomore has filed a suit seeking to force school officials to
allow the girl to wear clothing with Confederate flag images.
The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday by the North Carolina-based Southern
Legal Resource Center, a Confederate heritage legal advocacy group.
Candice Hardwick, 15, said she wants to wear the Confederate emblem to pay
tribute to an ancestor who fought for the South in the Civil War.
Latta High School officials say the symbol, which many people consider racially
charged, is disruptive in school, and that district policies allow principals to
ban such clothing.
The teen said she has been forced to change clothes or turn her shirt
inside-out. She said she has been suspended twice and threatened with
being kicked off the track team.
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