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High school sophomore Samantha Pawlucy says her teacher asked her why she was wearing the pink Romney-Ryan shirt in a 'democratic school,' then asked her to leave class or change. 'She said that's like her wearing a KKK shirt,' the teen said.
A Philadelphia high school student says she was harassed for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt her teacher likened to the Klu Klux Klan.
“The teacher told me to get out of the classroom. I said no,” 16-year-old Samantha Pawlucy told NBC Philadelphia.
“She told me to take off my shirt and said that she has another one if I need one. And then the teacher asked me, ‘Are your parents Republican?’ I said, ‘I don’t know.’
“She said that’s like her wearing a KKK shirt.”
Pawlucy, a sophomore at Charles Carroll High School, said she was mortified last Friday when the teacher went into the hallway to urge other students and teachers to check out the shirt.
“I was really embarrassed and shocked,” she told Philly.com. “I didn’t think she’d go into the hallway and scream to everyone.”
The teacher has been moved to another class at Charles Carroll High School, the district says.
Pawlucy wore the pink Ryan-Romney shirt for the school’s “dress-down” day.
The teacher wanted to know why Pawlucy was wearing a “Republican shirt” when “this is a democratic school,” her father Richard Pawlucy told local radio station, WWIQ.
Pawlucy’s parents met with the teacher, who apologized and explained she was only joking.
“If it was a joke between two adults, I can take a joke like that,” Richard Pawlucy told NBC Philadelphia. “But [Samantha] didn’t know how to take it, she doesn’t understand. She actually thinks she did something wrong.”
Pawlucy’s mother Christine said she could “picture her sitting there feeling ashamed for just wearing a T-shirt.”
The Philadelphia school district says the case is under investigation and the teacher, whose name has not been released, has been moved to another classroom.
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