Hometown (Hempstead) T-Shirt Causes Problems for Gwinnett Student

[Champ]

(WSB Radio) -- How can a t-shirt from his hometown get a high school student in trouble? When the shirt is from Hempstead.

A student at Grayson High School, in Gwinnett County, was stopped by a school administrator when he was spotted wearing the shirt that read "Hempstead, NY 516), a reference to the Long Island town, and its area code. But, the administrator only saw the first four letters of the town's name, and believed it to be a drug reference.

"It was ridiculous," says Caron Jones, mother of Terrell Jones. "They were labeling him that he was advertising marijuana," she says. The family moved to Gwinnett from Hempstead, and never considered that the hemp in Hempstead might cause any problems at the boy's school. "I had no idea that hemp stands for marijuana until I looked it up in the dictionary," Mrs. Jones says. "But, his t-shirt says Hempstead, not hemp."

After being questioned by school officials, Terrell finally convinced them to do a search on the internet and see that there really is, in fact, a Hempstead. After determining the existance of the town, the boy was allowed to return to class. The boy's father is still furious.

"I will fight it until we get a real apology and something is done about the situation," says James Jones. "Because today it was Terrell. Tomorrow it might be another young man or another young lady."

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[JohnKleeb]

1. Stupid idiots

I cant believe there are student conservatives honest to god, the shit we go through, agh. The Jones family has every right to be furious at this.

[RebelOne]

7. You can say that again.

I'm almost ashamed to say that I live in this state with such morons.

[JohnKleeb]

9. I know its annoying

Sheesh, you're not gonna believe me but I was nervous about giving my Reagan essay presention to my English class, I don't like to speak period but christ all mighty man, there are so many right wing people at school, well admittingly school is a little more left than NoVA in general.

[11 Bravo]

12. Amen.

I'm in Vienna, but once you get south of Woodbridge, you might as well be in Mississippi.

[aden_nak]

2. Proof again that pithy school officials really have nothing better to do.

Or at least seem to THINK they have nothing better to do.

[billbuckhead]

3. How about Hempfield?

One of the biggest school ditricts in Pennsylvania.

[Momgonepostal]

4. 13 percent polled think the school didn't overreact

who are these stupid people?

[BJ]

5. These are the people teaching your children.

If the high school administrators are this stupid then don't complain about the kids.

[truthspeaker]

6. too stupid to teach? Become an administrator!

[DS1]

8. Wait till they find out he's been accepted to Hempshire College

Ooops, I mean Hampshire :smoke:

[el_gato]

10. What about Weed California?

[regularguy]

11. Ha.

I have an old picture of myself in front of "Weed Elementary School".

[BiggJawn]

13. Good thing they didn't move in from Dildo, Newfoundland

The happy, quiet community of Dildo...


Tourism is their main industry. No mention of "Latex Novelties"...

Or you can get a "Dildo Job"
http://www.allcanadianjobs.com/cities/newfoundland/Dildo.html

I'm not brave enough to click on "Dildo employers click here"....