Skylar is a student at Anderson County Senior-Junior School. He said he has been carrying the colourful fabric Vera Bradley bag over his shoulder for some time with no issues. "It expresses myself and I think everyone else can wear it, so I wear it as well," Skylar said. He was summoned to Assistant Principal Don Hillard's office after he wouldn't take it off. "I went to the office and I refused to take it off, and they suspended me," the teen explained.
School personnel then called his mother, Leslie Willis, to come get her son. "I was a little furious, and I called the school [and spoke to Hillard] to reverify the story, and yeah, he refused to take off his Vera Bradley bag, nothing more to do it," Willis said. She said she reviewed the student handbook but did not see a mention to bags or purses. She questions the suspension and the timing.
"Skylar has been going to school since August with that same Vera Bradley bag on, hasn't taken it off. What is the problem?" she asked. She said she supports her son and his choices. She said if he wants to carry a Vera Bradley handbag or any other type of bag that he should be able to do so without being punished. Willis said she was told that the suspension wouldn't be lifted until Skylar stops wearing the bag, which he says he won't do. Anderson County School District officials did not comment.
There's a news video here.
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Of course the officials did not comment. What could they say in their defense? He's punished because he is a boy?
It does look garish though
Maybe the other students are fine with it, but I would guess that he would get a good bit of abuse...then the school joined in. Sad.
That's Kansas for ya. Boys carry book bags to school everywhere. The administration would have no problem with this is it didn't have flowers or whatever on it.
But now they've stepped in it, and won't back down because they can't admit they were wrong. And meanwhile the kid is getting no education, and the school looks stupid in the papers.
The whole story is not reported here. He refused to take it off in the classroom where bags are not allowed for either (any?) sex. There was no problem with him having the bag anywhere else on school premises. Other than the obvious taunts and comments from his peers.
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