Gay Student In T-Shirt Suit Quits School

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/12/121004tshirt.htm

A student who filed a lawsuit after he was prohibited from wearing gay pride-themed T-shirts to class (story) has dropped out of school, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union said.

A lawyer for the Webb City School R-7 School District said Brad Mathewson's decision Thursday to leave school could derail the lawsuit, which claims school administrators violated his constitutional rights when they banned his shirts.

Chris Hampton, a spokeswoman for the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, disagreed. She pointed to seven other high school students who were sent home Nov. 30 after they refused to change out of the homemade T-shirts they wore to class in support of Mathewson, 16. (story)



I don't understand how his dropping out would affect the suit--other suits have been won by students who have left school but the events happened while they were still enrolled

I think this is the school district blowing smoke