Farmington Schools: Rosaries ‘Inappropriate’ at School, Against Dress Code

Farmington_Schools_Rosaries_39inappropriate39_at_school_against_dress_code-syndImport-073813For many, the rosary is a symbol of the Catholic faith. But one mom says her daughters are getting sent to the principal’s office just because they’re wearing theirs to school.

“She asked me, ‘do you know what the rosary means?” and I was like, ‘yeah, it’s something I believe in,” said Latanyia Clah. The eighth-grader at Tibbetts Middle School in Farmington says she and her sister Larissa started wearing their rosaries to school after their mom gave them as gifts for Christmas.

“They asked me if I sell drugs because I was wearing my rosary,” said Clah . . .

“The dress code is more, ‘what is appropriate or inappropriate,’ and we have come to the consensus that it is inappropriate,” said Farmington Municipal Schools Assistant Superintendent Frank Stimac.

Stimac says while there was no direct policy against rosaries, after consulting a local priest and finding a prevalence of gang members using rosaries as symbols, school administrators have the right to ask students to stop wearing them — or at least put them inside their shirt. (Read more from “Farmington Schools: Rosaries ‘Inappropriate’ at School, Against Dress Code” HERE)

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