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Vance Middle School Digs a Hole

Yesterday, I mentioned the “Relay for Life” t-shirt flap at a Bristol middle school. To make a long story short: several kids wore the purple Relay t’s to Vance Middle School. Some of those kids misbehaved. Administrators blamed the mess on the Relay’s “unifying” trademark purple – and banned the color [...]

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The Color Purple is Disruptive

The Herald-Courier reports that 12-year-old Adam Gottschalk violated his school dress code by wearing a purple “Relay For Life” shirt promoting cancer research.
When 13-year-old Michael Payne was spotted wearing the same T-shirt, he said he missed two classes after being told to sit in the hallway to “think about” what he’d done.
And when 12-year-old Matt [...]

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