Dad claims son was harassed by staff for wearing 'Let's Go Brandon' shirt, sues school district

A begetter has filed a suit against an Ohio schoolhouse territory helium claims "punished" his lad for wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" T-shirt to school.

The lawsuit, obtained by Fox News Digital, alleges a teacher and main astatine Madison Middle School successful Mansfield violated a student's First Amendment close to escaped code and 14th Amendment close to owed process erstwhile helium was punished for wearing the garment to schoolhouse respective times.

The archetypal incidental happened successful November, according to the lawsuit, erstwhile the lad wore the T-shirt beneath a flannel garment successful a hallway earlier people had started.

A teacher, identified arsenic a registered Democrat successful the complaint, allegedly made the lad fastener up the garment to screen the message, telling him, "I cognize what that means."

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The adjacent incidental happened aboriginal successful the day, erstwhile the lad attended the aforesaid teacher’s class.

The pupil reportedly removed his flannel to chill off, but erstwhile the teacher noticed the T-shirt again, she issued the lad a "pink slip" and sent him to the principal's bureau for discipline.

According to the complaint, the main "demanded" the lad deterioration the flannel for the remainder of the time and "never again deterioration an point communicating the contented of this speech." 

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A 3rd incidental occurred erstwhile the pupil wore the aforesaid T-shirt again successful January, erstwhile the teacher who was progressive successful the November incidents noticed and pulled him speech and asked, "Do you similar offending people?" according to the complaint.

"That’s not my problem, cipher has to work my shirt," the lad responded, and the teacher allegedly gave him a "dirty look" and walked away. 

The main aboriginal met with the lad and his father, Richard Conrad, and claimed the operation is "code" for a vulgar expression. However, his begetter argued helium does not construe the slogan that way.

A 4th incidental happened erstwhile the lad was fixed detention by the main for wearing the T-shirt to schoolhouse again March 24. The schoolhouse emailed the begetter astir the boy’s "repeated violations" of the pupil codification of conduct, which it said is acceptable by the committee of education.

The ailment alleges the school's formal codification is "unconstitutionally vague" and gives idiosyncratic employees excessively overmuch discretion successful enforcing it.

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The "Let's Go Brandon" catchphrase, utilized by American conservatives to knock Biden, originated successful October 2021.

The operation originiated during a NASCAR interrogation and is simply a G-rated substitute for "F--- Joe Biden" chants fashionable during the COVID-19 pandemic. The explicit saying was recited astatine sporting events crossed the state successful defiance of the president's coronavirus mandates.

Conrad’s suit claims the operation is "a fashionable look of definite people’s opinions toward the American media and politics" and is not vulgar.

Madison Local School District Superintendent Robert Peterson told Fox News Digital helium was alert of the suit but could not remark connected immoderate details since it’s being actively litigated.

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Madison Middle School successful Mansfield, Ohio (Google Maps)

In 2023, 2 students who were prohibited from wearing covering with the aforesaid operation to schoolhouse filed a suit against their Michigan schoolhouse district.

The territory and its employees were "censoring students who effort to explicit enactment for erstwhile President Donald Trump oregon absorption to President Joe Biden," according to the ailment filed successful U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which describes itself arsenic "a nonpartisan, nonprofit enactment dedicated to defending and sustaining the idiosyncratic rights of each Americans to escaped code and escaped thought," represented the Tri County Middle School students who sued the schoolhouse territory for viewpoint favoritism aft they were ordered to region sweatshirts they wore to schoolhouse that featured the operation successful February 2022.

In a akin concern to Conrad's, an adjunct main and a teacher "ordered the boys to region their sweatshirts" for allegedly violating a formal codification portion allowing different students to deterioration different governmental apparel similar "gay-pride-themed hoodies," according to FIRE.

President Joe Biden speaks successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House Nov. 26, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

"Criticism of the president is halfway governmental code protected by the First Amendment," FIRE lawyer Conor Fitzpatrick antecedently said. "Whether it’s a Biden sticker, ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirt oregon Gay Pride T-shirt, schools can’t prime and take which governmental beliefs students tin express."

FIRE said the incidental involving the 2 students is portion of a "pattern of governmental favoritism" by the schoolhouse territory that it is "wrongly relying connected a argumentation that prohibits ‘profane’ covering to censor this peculiar message."

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"When the schoolhouse territory relaxed the formal codification for tract day, a schoolhouse head ordered a pupil to halt wearing a Trump emblem arsenic a cape but permitted different students to deterioration cheery pridefulness flags successful the aforesaid manner," the radical said successful a property merchandise announcing the lawsuit.

"The slogan exists arsenic a mode to explicit an anti-Biden connection without utilizing profanity," Fitzpatrick said. "A nationalist schoolhouse territory cannot censor code conscionable due to the fact that it mightiness origin idiosyncratic to deliberation astir a curse word."

Fox News Digital's Andrea Margolis and Kyle Morris contributed to this report. 

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