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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Boy suspended from school for wearing makeup and lipstick
By Irma Lemus
Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - SAN BERNARDINO - In what is shaping as a battle between conformity and self-expression, Pacific High School has suspended a ninth-grade boy for wearing lipstick and eye makeup. Officials are calling it a violation of school policy, which they seemed unable to find in writing.
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The youth said the makeup expresses religious beliefs he shares with his mother, a Wiccan priestess in the neopagan religion based on northern European beliefs in the supernatural.
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The ACLU's Sun had a different take: "High school is the time where many students are expressing themselves and really finding themselves and so to suspend the student is such a severe punishment it's wrong. It's wrong not only as a legal matter, but it's not good policy."
http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Boy suspended from school for wearing makeup and lipstick
By Irma Lemus
Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - SAN BERNARDINO - In what is shaping as a battle between conformity and self-expression, Pacific High School has suspended a ninth-grade boy for wearing lipstick and eye makeup. Officials are calling it a violation of school policy, which they seemed unable to find in writing.
(snip)
The youth said the makeup expresses religious beliefs he shares with his mother, a Wiccan priestess in the neopagan religion based on northern European beliefs in the supernatural.
(snip)
The ACLU's Sun had a different take: "High school is the time where many students are expressing themselves and really finding themselves and so to suspend the student is such a severe punishment it's wrong. It's wrong not only as a legal matter, but it's not good policy."
http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2...