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New Jersey students punished for hoodie protest
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/new-jersey-students-punished-for-hoodie-protest
New Jersey Students Punished For Hoodie Protest
Updated: Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012, 6:49 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 27 Mar 2012, 5:20 PM EDT
DEPTFORD, N.J. - Dozens of New Jersey teens say they were punished for showing support for Trayvon Martin at their high school.
It's a story Fox 29 first tweeted out on Tuesday morning.
One student sent out a picture of other students in detention wearing hooded sweatshirts, with signs that say, "I Am Trayvon."
The hoodie has become a symbol of Trayvon Martin's death after he was killed a month ago in Sanford, Fla.
The symbolic reference to the hoodie struck home at Deptford High School in Deptford, N.J., where the students say they were punished for violating the school's dress code.
The students started the day on Tuesday in a unified protest that led to a partial lockdown at the school.
At least one student was arrested after the incident and many of the students involved in the protest left school at the end of the day with suspensions in hand.
The students told Fox 29 they organized the protest Monday night and about 30 kids took part.
They wore hoods and carried signs protesting the Trayvon Martin shooting.
School policy is clear: Wearing the hood up during the day is against the rules. At first, the principal and the administration called the students down to the office.
The principal ordered them to take the hoods down. Some complied, others didn?t.
Extra Deptford police, some with dogs, were called to the scene.
All of the students were put in the detention room, and were threatened with suspensions or worse of they didn?t comply with removing their hoods.
One student told us she was told by school officials she couldn?t walk for graduation or go to the prom unless she took her hood down.
She said the group took their hoods down when they were told they couldn?t walk at graduation.
Fox 29 tried repeatedly to speak with the principal on Tuesday, as well as the superintendent.
We were told there would be no on-camera interviews and no interviews over the phone.
Re: New Jersey students punished for hoodie protest
Another one here for school policy, but it does seem like some of the reaction was over-the-top if true.....lockdown?
I have a hard time picturing it went down as Principal, calmy: "Take your hoods down". Students, calmly: "No, we're protesting". Principal: "Call in the dogs!"
Agreed that it's school policy and they should be punished. I suspect there's a lot more that went into the escalation from principal request to lockdown and one student arrested.
Yup. What happened for there to be an arrest?
I agree with all of this. It seems a bit of an overreaction, but it was against school policy.