Texas Sisters In Trouble With School For Shirts Supporting Father, Paralyzed Afghanistan Veteran

Two girls from James Master Elementary School in Converse, Texas, are in trouble after officials claimed their t-shirts, which bore logos of the non-profit Homes For Our Troops, in support of their father, Army Spc. Justin Perez-Gorda, who was paralyzed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, KENS 5 reports.

According to the station, the family recently learned they qualified for help from the organization and received t-shirts from the program on Thursday.

"This organization may build us a home that is safe for my husband to be safe in," Josie Perez-Gorda told the station.

In support, the girls, one in first grade and the other in fourth, wore the shirts to school on Friday. This, according to FOX News, violated the school's dress code because the shirts contained a logo, which are not allowed.

"We do have a standardized dress code," Judson ISD spokesperson Aubrey Chancellor told KENS 5. "We certainly support the military, but we do have to be consistent across the board when it comes to following the dress code."

CBS Houston reports that the district spokesperson claims the girls have violated the dress code before by wearing shirts without collars.

Despite the restrictions, the Perez-Gorda family believes students should be able to wear clothes that honor their parents if they are fighting for their country.

Comments

[Patriotic1]

12:24 PM on 08/30/2012

The first amendment is suppose to protect this right, in fact if you want to breed a generation of patriotic Americans you better respect the children s rights at the earliest age and show them why this country is so great and what governing set of rules that so many gave their life for was so worth dying for. If a child's attire is not crude obscene or explicit no one in any public school funded by tax paying Americans should ever have the right so censor even a child. Most children also pay taxes every time they spend their allowance on what ever they have saved to buy and what makes it right to decide a child under 18 should not have the same constitutional rights. I don't recall when the bill of rights was being signed that it was only to protect the rights of citizens of legal adult age. I believe most soldiers would agree they are risking their lives for their children s freedom and liberty. If we take away our children s rights and police and imprison them and turn them into drone bees our country is on its way to total failure and destruction I will fight for my child rights 100% because im an American and believe in my Constitution.. Email me with your feed back at [e-mail]

[Patriotic1]

12:21 PM on 08/30/2012

Adolescent age children are learning how to adjust and cope with acceptance of their selves to fit in to social groups and figure out who they are by personal expression whether it be by what they wear how they style their hair or color it, or by the types of apparel they wear (western, sport, punk rock, church, business like etc. Self confidence at the adolescent age is and has been becoming more and more of a growing problem in our nation and its apparent rise is obvious with the increasing rise of youth suicides and numbers of children prescribed antidepressant medication. Allowing a kid to wear what they want is the easiest and best way i feel for a child to express themselves and find out who they are, as long as its appropriate and non explicit with its appearance or graphic content.

[starchildjg24]

09:16 AM on 05/05/2012

A school dress code that is not enforced is the same as no dress code at all. Everyone must follow it, no exceptions. If people disagree with it, or want to protest it, then they must go through the school board and do it properly. Logos can range from harmless to uplifting to political to religious to vulgar and offensive. Our teachers and school principals should not be put in a position of wasting their working time evaluating the worth of a t-shirt. Then you have arguments and anger etc. etc. etc.

[jkevinm80]

09:51 AM on 05/04/2012

This rule exists, because parents INSISTED that if any group or idea was allowed on clothing, ALL groups, no matter how hateful, hurtful or ridiculous, had to be allowed. PARENTS insisted, not just here, but all over the country. WHile I admire the girls and support their efforts, as someone who works in the schools I can tell you that not enforcing this rule would have much greater penalties for the school administrators than enforcing it. We decided a long time ago, not to trust our school administrators to make decisions about appropriateness, because we are all afraid it will our "Ox who will be gored". Just another sad example of the total polarization of our society.

[ttsgw]

11:17 AM on 05/03/2012

Freedom of expression has become a joke in America.

[starchildjg24]

09:21 AM on 05/05/2012

No, it hasn't. But one of the most important things we can teach our children is respect for authority and for laws and rules. Another very important thing is to limit distractions and hostility in a school environment.
Freedom of expression means to allow all slogans or none. There are limits to all of our freedoms, and consequences.

[Tony Rochon]

10:20 PM on 05/02/2012

"In trouble" for a dress code violation? I sincerely doubt it.

[starchildjg24]

09:22 AM on 05/05/2012

Silly headlines! Trying to stir controversy over nothing.

[lking4trbl]

02:19 PM on 05/02/2012

oh...and the kids are not in trouble. they were probably sent home to change clothes. happens daily i'm sure at the school.

[lking4trbl]

02:12 PM on 05/02/2012

ok....so it's stupid but there's a dress code. if the code says shirts with no logo, then don't wear a shirt with a logo. just because you think your cause is special (and I do believe wounded vets to be a great cause) doesn't mean they can bend the rules. what about the next kid that thinks "hookers for jesus" is a worthy cause? or who's parents support segregation? it's just easier to say no logo. making a mountain out of a molehill. everyone wants to be an exception.

[Paulie21]

01:36 PM on 05/02/2012

Texas again vying for the stupidest effing state in the union.

[starchildjg24]

09:23 AM on 05/05/2012

Texas in this case is perfectly correct, as are all the schools all over our nation that have instituted dress codes. There are a lot of reasons for them, logical and valid reasons.

[pjordan]

09:15 AM on 05/01/2012

common sense has been banned from schools by administrators and school boards....I fear we may never recover.

[lcr999]

08:21 PM on 04/30/2012

"Two girls from James Master Elementary School in Converse, Texas, are in trouble after officials claimed their t-shirts, which bore logos of the non-profit Homes For Our Troops, in support of their father, Army Spc. Justin Perez-Gorda, who was paralyzed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, KENS 5 reports."

EDITOR...Can we have a sentence that makes sense.

[William Robert Toth]

08:17 PM on 04/30/2012

People are too hung up on their "rules."

[lking4trbl]

02:14 PM on 05/02/2012

so a kid wearing a shirt that supports hookers for jesus would be ok with you? what about one that supports abortion or honor killing? it's not the same, you say? maybe it is to them. why is their cause any more or less worthy of ignoring the rules than your's

[JimThompson44]

03:38 PM on 04/30/2012

Good for them enforcing their rule! We certainly wouldn't want anyone to support the sort of effort the t-shirt highlights!

[RocheTm]

01:51 PM on 04/30/2012

Watch your local school district. These insane rules are popping up all the time. My local school decided zero tolerance for being tardy... as in the first time you do it you get in trouble.

As a man who was never even close to tardy my first thought was how do they expect girls to not have a problem with this?

Our children are in prisons designed by people who are elected and often people with advance degrees that never taught or can't read research.

[XV8 Crisis Suit]

02:21 PM on 04/30/2012

"Watch your local school district. These insane rules are popping up all the time..."

What insane rules? Dress codes???

[trekie70]

02:54 PM on 04/30/2012

Yes, overreaching dress codes are insane. These two girls should be commended for honoring their dad, not punished by anal retentive paper-pushers.

[Fisue928]

08:20 AM on 05/01/2012

The school board should have used common sense instead of just following rules. Sometimes the rule does not apply.

[Lady Lithia]

12:17 AM on 05/03/2012

As a teacher, I'm fine with the dress code they have on my campus. But the day that one of my two assisstant principals told me that he and the other one didn't see eye-to-eye on the dress code was the day I stopped sending kids to the office for a dress code violation unless it was egregious. (boobs just about ready to fall out, pants so low that you can see the hemline of the boxers they're wearing underneath, inappropriate slogans promoting hatred, violence or sexually explicit topics). As a teacher I approve of some of the dress codes we have. Relatively speaking, I think that girls who "flaunt it" can be detrimental to the learning process for hormone infused teenage boys. But now with class sizes in the 40, I honestly don't have time to read every teeshirt slogan to make sure they're all appropriate.

[jstanavgguy]

10:24 AM on 04/30/2012

The left, as a whole, hates the military.

[RocheTm]

01:45 PM on 04/30/2012

Texas is on the left now?

[jstanavgguy]

02:18 PM on 04/30/2012

One person's actions and attitude are not indicitive of the entire state.

[starchildjg24]

09:26 AM on 05/05/2012

Fantastic! Another huge state in Obama's column!

[William Robert Toth]

08:18 PM on 04/30/2012

I hardly hate the military... I am slightly left of center and made a career of it, in special operations of all places!