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FOXNews.com - Judge Orders School to Reinstate Boy Suspended Over Rosary Beads
Interestingly enough, this is a gang-related symbol in New York. Purple & gold rosary beads are frequently worn by Almighty Latin Kings the Northeast. I suspect the school district lost the case because they didn't utilize experts in the field to bolster their reasons for having the dress code in the first place.
Here's a related article. http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-03-16-rosaries-gangs_N.htm
FWIW, the kid on the left claims not to be a gang member, but the plaid shirt, buttoned to the top, is standard cholo clothing.
Raymond Hosier is wearing his purple rosary beads to school again.
A day after a federal judge ordered a New York middle school to reinstate the seventh-grader, who was suspended for wearing the Catholic prayer beads last month, the 13-year-old Schenectady boy is proudly displaying them again.
He wears them in memory of his younger brother, who died while clutching rosary beads following a car accident in 2005.
"Raymond believes in his heart of hearts that without the rosary, something's going to happen to him," his mother, Chantell Hosier, told FoxNews.com. "They make him feel safe -- that's the way he explains it. This child is still grieving."
Chantell Hosier confirmed that Raymond wore the beads to Oneida Middle School on Wednesday after Judge Lawrence Kahn ordered the boy to be reinstated pending a hearing on June 11 into whether the suspension violated his civil rights.
Interestingly enough, this is a gang-related symbol in New York. Purple & gold rosary beads are frequently worn by Almighty Latin Kings the Northeast. I suspect the school district lost the case because they didn't utilize experts in the field to bolster their reasons for having the dress code in the first place.
Here's a related article. http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-03-16-rosaries-gangs_N.htm
FWIW, the kid on the left claims not to be a gang member, but the plaid shirt, buttoned to the top, is standard cholo clothing.
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