Georgia School Officials Get Egg on Their Face
How stupid can one school's educators be? So stupid that the incident made the New York Times. The award of shame goes to Grayson High School in Gwinnett County, Georgia:
Terrell Jones, a student in Gwinnett County's Grayson High School, was weeded out of a classroom by a school administrator because he wore a shirt that read: ``Hempstead, NY 516,'' a reference to the Long Island town and its telephone area code.
According to Jones' family, which moved from Hempstead to the Atlanta suburb, the school thought the shirt referred to marijuana. Jones wasn't allowed to return to class until he persuaded school officials to search the Internet for the town name.
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