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School Cancels Clothing Prohibition
Posted by FoM on September 05, 1999 at 17:04:52 PT
Statewire
Source: Star Tribune
WINNECONE, Wis.School authorities have rescinded a prohibition against student clothing bearing a brand name that a principal feared might advertise drug use.
The directive forbade students from wearing garments in school bearing the Billabong label because " bong" is a slang term for a marijuana pipe. Students protested. Officials decided to let them wear articles displaying Billabong or any other brand, like Adidas or Nike, Superintendent Robert Reinke said. " Billabong" is an Australian aborigine word for lagoon or backwater. It was adopted by a sporting goods company that has branched out into clothing. The brand became fashionable in time for Winneconne High School to begin class last week with junior Adam Szadkowski having purchased six Billabong shirts. Because of Principal Ed Dombrowski' s directive, a teacher sent Szadkowski to a rest room to turn his shirt inside out, concealing the brand word. " It' s ridiculous, " Szadkowski, a member of the junior-class student council, said at the time. " I could maybe understand if the shirts said ' bill-a-bong' but not ' Billabong.' Are they going to ban us from wearing a shirt that says ' potato' just because it has the word ' pot' in it?" " It feels good that we' ve worked this out, " he said after Dombrowski' s ruling was nullified. " It won' t be a controversy again." The issue pays a dividend, Dombrowski said. " We hope students become more involved and recognize that we want to hear from them and that there are many appropriate ways to communicate with us, " he said. " Every now and then you hear about these, what I call, storms in a teacup where people read into an image something that isn' t there, " Billabong USA president Paul Naude said Thursday. Published Sunday, September 5, 1999 Copyright 1999 Associated Press
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Comment #2 posted by Shawn on February 28, 2001 at 09:33:39 PT:
bong sweatshirt
were not alowed to wear them in my school either,becuase of the word "BONG" on it.and i was wondering if they meant the pipe or just an adbreviation for billabong.
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on September 06, 1999 at 09:28:46 PT:
School Bans Billabong Garments
September 01, 199909:54:19 PTStatewire Source: Star Tribune WINNECONNE, Wis. (AP) Students at Winneconne High School were told not to wear garments bearing the Billabong brand name because of its similarity to the word " bong, " a term for a marijuana pipe. Click the link to read the full article.
School Bans Billabong Garments
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