A school boy who dressed in a Santa suit for the Christmas party was told he couldn’t enter the hall dressed like Santa Claus.. Maybe the principal of the school needs to go back to school and along the way, perhaps try to grab a frigging life.
HAMPTON – A parent of a Hampton Academy Junior High School student says the principal of the school told his son to leave the school’s holiday dance on Friday night because the boy was dressed in a Santa Claus costume, which was politically incorrect.
Michael Lafond said his son, Bryan, went to the dance dressed as Santa because it was a holiday party.
“He asked if he could dress like Santa and we said yes,” said Lafond. “We went to Brooks and purchased the outfit and everything.”
Lafond said his wife dropped off Bryan at the school.
“I went to the dance with my friend,” said Bryan Lafond, who is in seventh grade. “He had an elf hat on and we thought it was pretty cool. Everyone loved the suit, but when I went by the principal, he asked why I was dressed like that.”
Principal Fred Muscara said he told the boy he couldn’t get into the dance because he was wearing the costume.
“It was a holiday party,” said Muscara. “It was not a Christmas party. There is a separation of church and state. We have a lot of students that go to Hampton Academy Junior High that have different religions. We have to be sensitive to that.”
Bryan said while Muscara didn’t say he had to leave, he told Bryan if he wanted to go the dance he would have to change out of the suit and put on proper attire for the dance.
Having nothing to change into, Bryan left the dance to try and find his mother.
“My wife was leaving the parking lot when she saw Bryan running out of the building,” said Lafond. “He told her that the principal said it was politically incorrect to wear the Santa outfit.” […]
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