)By Laura DeJoseph
According to FoxNews.com, an 11-year-old, fifth grade student was suspended after wearing a homemade anti-Obama t-shirt to school. The student, Daxx Dalton, of Aurora, Colo., wore the shirt to show his conservative views on a day when students were expected to wear red, white, and blue to show their patriotism.
The t-shirt, reading "Obama is a terrorist's best friend," was encouraged by the boy's conservative father who now says he intends to sue the public school for violating his son's First Amendment rights. The school gave Dalton the option of changing his shirt, turning it inside out, or being suspended.
"They're taking away my right of freedom of speech," said Dalton on MyFoxColorado.com. "If I have the right to wear this shirt I'm going to use it. And if the only way to use it is get suspended, then I'm going to get suspended."
In a press release on the Aurora Frontier K-8 School's website, it states that "Aurora Public School staff members understand and respect the rights of students to free speech." The news release also states: "Any type of attire which attracts undue attention to the wearer, and thus causes a disturbance to the educational process is in bad taste and not acceptable."
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