A dress code for the yearbook?

PositionPatrick Agin sues for free-speech rights to use photo in yearbook - Brief article

A high school, senior was surprised by his school's refusal this fall to use a yearbook photo of him dressed in chain-mail armor with a broadsword slung over his shoulder. "I didn't think it was that big a deal," says Patrick Agin, 17, who goes to Portsmouth High School. in Portsmouth, R.I. "I just really liked the picture." But the school says the photo violates its zero-tolerance weapons policy. The Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U.) has filed suit supporting Agin's free-speech rights...

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