St. Francis high school student recently got a tattoo of the Confederate Flag tattoo. The school says he cannot come to class unless he covers his tattoo design because it violates their dress code.
St. Francis high school student, Carlson got the tattoo on Saturday and school administrator noticed his tattoo on Tuesday and when school administrator noticed his tattoo design, they said he couldn’t come back until he had it covered up because it violates their dress code.
District Superintendent Ed Saxton said that “We have 1,500 kids in this building that are pretty positive interacting with each other, we’re just not going to allow that to defer that positive interaction that we have,”.
Carlson said that “I’m just going to keep wearing what I want to wear and go to school and if the school doesn’t like it then they’ll have to keep suspending me for it,”.
The school says it has nothing against tattoos, but that this is comparable to someone getting one with nudity or a bad word: you can have it, just don’t show it.
