Children of Paralyzed Afghan Veteran Punished for Wearing Pro-Military T-Shirts to School
- Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:39am by
Billy Hallowell
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The family of a paralyzed Afghanistan veteran is going head-to-head with a Texas school district over pro-military t-shirts that apparently landed two their elementary school children in trouble.
The shirts, which have the logo of an organization that provides homes and support for wounded veterans, apparently violate Masters Elementary School’s dress code.
Josie Perez-Gorda, the mother of Savannah, a first-grader, and Taylor, a fourth-grader, said that her daughters were wearing shirts from the Homes For Our Troops organization. The family’s connection to the group is a very personal one.
The group, with a self-proclaimed mission of “helping those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001,” may be providing housing assistance to Perez-Gorda’s family. Her husband, Army Spc. Justin Perez-Gorda, was injured when he encountered a road-side bomb in Afghanistan.
She explained this revelation in a recent interview with San Antonio’s KENS:
The mother maintains that her girls should have been permitted to wear the shirts in honor of both their father and the organization without incident.
“These guys are fighting for our country and they should be able to wear something that honors their parents, especially if they are wounded,” she said.

The school district, though, claims that the girls have been in trouble for violating dress regulations numerous times before. Additionally, a spokesperson for the Judson Independent School District emphasized the need for continuity. Currently, the dress code requires that students, grades pre-K through eighth, wear a Polo-styled shirt (any color is permissible) or a shirt with a college or JISD campus spirit logo.
“We do have a standardized dress code,” proclaimed spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor. “We certainly support the military, but we do have to be consistent across the board when it comes to following the dress code.”
Chancellor urged the family to attend a school board meeting if they wish to see the school’s dress code amended.
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IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:39pmYou know what I miss the most about life in America? We used to be a country proud of our individualism! Now we are being herded into total conformity! Dress this way, think this, do this, everybody must be equal, learn what we teach, and watch what we tell you. Read what we provide, vote for the destruction of values, we will provide all you need from birth to death, we will have a czar for every step you take just give is time. I see what is happening across our country and I look at my grandkids and I personally fight to hold back the tears, they may end up in life not knowing freedom, or how it was obtained, or not knowing those that fought for their freedom. To be “PC” is the most destructive epidemic that has crossed across our great nation. Where ever it gets a hold it strangles the life out of everything that it touches!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:49pmAmen. IF I had kids, I’d home school them.
Report Post »cfreedom
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:05pmI agree, and can you imagine Texas of all states, supposedly a conservative, “Don’t tread on me state” with at least two of the largest bases in the states along with at least 1 if not more large VA hospital. I hope these parents go to the parents/teachers meeting and raise cain. I hope their Father goes too. Can we write letters to this school? If so we should write and protest, thousands of letters would be good. Join me.
Report Post »toto
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:24pm“In the olden days” everyone knew what was acceptable dress and didn’t need the the school to police it, except on the most rare occasions. Now kids can’t think for themselves and do the right thing on their own, it has to be enforced or everyone runs amuck. PARENTS are to blame for not teaching and enforcing common decency and respect and the schools have become like prisons. They are incarcerating not only their bodies but their minds as well. We do need an awaking of the American spirit and to invite all those who do not wish to be AMERICAN to find another more welcoming place that suits their needs. We need to stop trying to accommodate every tiny minority by removing our culture. They need to adjust themselves to OUR culture, not the other way around. We need to start in our cities and our towns and take this country back from NON AMERICANS and that has nothing to do with ethnicity, and everything to do with mindset. Sadly, our President should be the first to relocate to a place that better serves his socialist anti-American agenda. Wow, what a great country this could be again if the “can do” people would rise up and lead this country. All of Washington needs a great cleansing at the polls in November.
Report Post »DownWithDems
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:25pmCome on Texas, we are counting on you. This school Board needs to go.
How dare they!
Get this community together and throw those in charge OUT.
Report Post »Take back your schools. Throw the Liberals out.
azjoannie
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:29pmDouble Amen!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:35pmWe need cameras in the classroom, parents need to watch and listen to these lefty commie American hating pigs, attempt to indoctrinate our kids….. Not to mention they can barely read and write after 12 years in the union of indoctrination …… HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS…..
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:23pmTime for a phone call and letter.
WOLVERINES!
Report Post »LookingforJustice
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:27pmSadly, you are 100% correct!
For years I have said that one of the biggest problems we have is this:
NO ONE WANTS TO USE ANY DISCERNMENT ANY MORE!
No backbone, no common sense, no sense of right/wrong, no one willing to stand up to the PC jellyfish ********!!!!
Report Post »garylee123
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:30pm@ JHRUSKY
Wolverines!!!
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:42pmDress codes are un-american. Stop teaching our kids to be lifeless drones….
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 6:22pmI hear4 what you are saying. The problem is that so many people don’t act with common sense and insist on doing or wearing what is truly obscene or objectionable. Since parents and kids won’t use any common sense, the schools make intrusive rules. The answer, of course, is for people to simply be considerate of others so rules like this don’t have to be made. It wasn‘t always necessary when morality was still taught in the schools and the popular culture didn’t glorify profanity, sexuality, crudeness.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:47pmI spend over 23 years in the Army and was damn proud of my service. These self rightous horses rectums, have never been shot at. and have no right to disrepect the men (or their families) who sacrificed so much. If it wasn‘t for the men who give so much these People wouldn’t be able to push others around and stand behind their wall of It’s the rules.
These are the same people who spat on us and called us names when we returned from Viernam, I wanted to whip a few of them then and would love a chance to make up for lost time now.
OMG 2012
Report Post »random357
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:33pmI used to feel sad because my 2 daughters decided not to have children. But when I see this crap I am happy not to be a grandfather. My nephew has 3 kids. I hope they get the chance to grow up American with the freedom earned by blood, limbs, and lives of our military. I know how my freedom was earned. I hope children will be taught how America came to be and the price that was and is being paid.
Report Post »mosireci
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:23pmI believe our teachers lack Pariotism. Not al teachers but too many of them
Report Post »sweetgold
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:09pmThat’s what communists and marxists do. For control, don’t you know !!!
Report Post »AllLost
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:39pmLook, it was not about the message, but the shirt style. Follow the dress code and keep discipline as I believe they are related. Print the same logo on a polo shirt if it is important to you, or a t-shirt with the school’s logo and then I would support the kids.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:50pmExactly….The LAW a.k.a Student Dress Code was NO shirts unless they were collared. This was NOT the first time these children violated the law/rules. The parents should be held accountable and with the kids ages it should have been handled with a gentler hand…..I am happy for this family that they are getting a new home and I hope their father finds peace too…….
Report Post »VTPatriot44
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:32pmI believe you interpretation of the story is the correct one. If we are going to stand in the fire of truth that Blaze is supposed to represent, then we have to talk about the facts. And the facts are the school has a dress code that limits what kids can wear and this t-shirt appear to fall outside of those parameters. No matter how noble the the cause, making one exception will open up Pandora’s box for the school system. Slap that logo on a polo shirt and the problem is solved IMO.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:46pmDress codes need to go away. Go to that school and see how many boy’s have their a$$es showing cause their pant’s are around their knees.Unless they come to school naked or in their PJ’s. who cares. You do know freedom right? I see more and more progressives on here calling themselves Americans.I bet you believe every child should be forced to go to school to huh? Americans my A$$!
Report Post »VTPatriot44
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:11pm@I-HATER. Yes, I believe in freedom and as it exists under federalism, local communities can come together and set standards that are appropriate for itself. I don’t have to agree with the standards but it is their right under the US system of government. With regards to other kids violating the dress code in some other fashion and not being subject to the same scrutiny, that would make for an interesting follow-up story. If that’s the case, I’m with you, but the facts at this moment don’t point to that.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:31pm@V: you just made my point you are a PROGRESSIVE. School is not a right. Yet people are forced to go and forced to comply with the rules in that school. They are forced into the school system so they can brainwash them from an early age. I see you complied very well. I was hopeing Obama would lose in nov. now i don’t. This country diserves everything it get’s. History will record us as the biggest fools to ever walk the earth. The only country that every had freedom let EVIL people just walk right up and take it away and all they did was complain.
Report Post »samnjoeysgrama
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 3:37pmDear ALLLOST,
Report Post »You seem to have skipped a line: the dress code requires that students, grades pre-K through eighth, wear a Polo-styled shirt (any color is permissible) OR a shirt with a college or JISD campus spirit logo.
I.e. they can wear a collarless shirt if it has a college or JISD (Judson Independent School District?) logo. So something that says Columbia or Harvard or Squat U is OK, but not something that is pro-America? My objection still stands. While I agree that violent, Occupy, obscene or communist logos are out of place, any exception made for school districts or colleges most certainly be made for the United States Military. Who was it who “invented” being PC? Either Stalin or Lenin, or one of the early Marxist types,…Yes, really. It sure cuts down on your oppositions’ free speech when YOU get to decide what THEY are allowed to say.
If you haven’t home schooled because you want your child to have friends and develop social skills, you need to look into it. There are co-ops of parents who organize bands, put on plays, and have team sports for their home schooled kids. They can get a great education…and learn to not skip important lines in Blaze articles.
spirited
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:35pmDress codes are dress codes.
8^>So, how about “Homes for our Troops” back packs, book covers… ?
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:29pmagree
Report Post »Jusjos
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:19amThey have back packs are I was talked to about them as well.
Report Post »Kidncatmom
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:31pmSounds to me by an over reaction by the school. Had they handled it differently, they would not not be the focus of scorn.
Report Post »wesinLR
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:44pmWhy cant it just be about what it is.. they did not follow the dress code? rules are rules.. either you follow them or not.. you break them you get punished.. if you disagree with a rule there are ways to fix that.. but just ignoring the rule and going on is not the way our nation works. I love the troops, but this is not about the troops, or the wounded.. its about 2 kids thinking what they think is more important than the rules.. Sorry i side with the school on this.. rules are rules.. when you get feeling in it and think its ok to overlook rules yo uare no diffrent than the left, in how they only foloow rules they like.. cant have it both ways people.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:27pm.
With stuff like this going on down here, I bet Texas Votes for Obama and turns Bright as the Stars of Texas Blue in November…….
Texas Sucks……
Report Post »IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:00pmIf it does happen here it will be because all the liberal idiots that put their selves on the unemployment line up north decided that they needed some work and rush to one of the states that have continued to prosper during the liberal attempt to communize the USA. But Texas will never go blue!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:52pmEasy now spankyourself. You’re repeating your jingle a bit.
Report Post »I’ll tell the judge to make you eat a french fry and like it.
Diablo4965
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:22pmCan‘t wear a T supporting our military but I’m sure you can wear your pants at the bottom of your azz!
Report Post »JimSB
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:20pmChe Guevara Tshirts would probably be ok
Report Post »robinakilt
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:26pmThere is no probably. THEY ARE ALLOWED AND ENCOURAGED!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:18pmRobin, you know this for a fact? Can you show us evidence?
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:13pmThe unAmerican schools require a new administration. ‘Stupid’ has a trickle effect.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:27pmYet, no one said anything about someone dressing as Jesus on “Fictional Characters Day” in another school system. Would they have reacted the same way if someone came with a Trayvon hoodie? Wonder if this school system also has in their curriculum classes on how to demonstrate and boycott? Wonder if they are also buying into LAUSD’s latest decision to pass students with a “D” so they can keep their dropout rates lower and graduation rates higher thus getting more federal=taxpayer dollars? Where are Obama and Duncan on that one?
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:11pmShow me the entire schools dress. And I might believe them.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:10pmDress Code or NOT. If it HONORS OUR TROOPS which are fighting and dying or wounded for OUR COUNTRY. Then they should be allowed to wear it. I bet if they had had OBAMA’S MUG on the shirt nothing would have been said.
Report Post »wesinLR
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:04pmwhy do you think our troops want honor based on breaking rules?? I think the way the kids did this actually disrespected our troops.. who pride themselves on discipline … what this shows me is the mom isnt teaching the kids the values her husband was upholding in his service.. kinda of sad in my view that a faimly like that would think that the rules are not important.. teaching kids to do what ever if they think its right regardless or rules is NOT good parenting.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:43pmheavyduty,
Well Obama is the President of the United States of America, Leader of the Free World, Commander In Chief of the United States Armed Forces, The Head of State and the Head of Government.
Report Post »Idahosauce
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:09pmYou can wear a shirt with a “College” logo, promoting their favorite indoctrinating charity, but not supporting the military?!!!!!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:30pmcollared college shirt not a T-shirt.
Tell me did you have dress codes in school? Did anyone ever break them and get sent home? Why is this different?
She broke the dress code. End of story.
Report Post »wesinLR
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:47pmi agree rules are rules.. dont cry about the rule after the fact.. change it in the system if its wrong…
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 5:24pmI just visited San Antonio for an Air Force graduation…Everywhere we traveled with my buddy in uniform was greeted with “congratulations” and “Thank you for your service” by the mass majority of the citizens there.. To many to count.. That city is full blown supportive of our troops and don‘t let the word play in this story make an issue where there isn’t one… It is a dress code violation and that is it… I will guarantee that a good portion of those students are military kids with a large Air Force Base and Ft. Sam Houston being there… I wish the blaze would stop giving half the story like the rest of the MSM… It’s making me sic.
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:07pmEven if the shirt went against the dress code,the teachers and the school should have shown compassion towards the sacrifices this family has made for this country and the common sense to make exceptions to some of their rules. By making an issue out of this they are appear to be bullying the little children. I wonder if these teachers belong to a union.
Rick Perry and George Bush have almost successfully transitioned the state of Texas to a Democratic state( with no help from Obama, I might add) with their open borders policies.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:32pmOnce you make an exception for one, you must make an exception for all. Use your other brain.
What if a family from Cuba wanted to celebrate Che, you’d be cool with that.
The topic of the shirt is not at issue – they broke dress code of the school.
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:52pmCOFEMLE
They could have made an exception for the day and not made an issue about it with the children. They could have called the parents after school to explain the dress code.
It appears that you share the same THUG communication style as the teacher. Do you belong to a union?????????
Report Post »wesinLR
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:08pmI agree rules are to be followed… i think the parents here are cheating the kids of a lesson that so needs to be taught… (how to change rules that are wrong) how you say a break down in discipline is an honor for troops who hold tht line with honor kills me… maybe you should go join a left think tank .. that is how they act.. people of honor follow the rules and try and change the wrong ones…
Report Post »firstgenesis
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:07pmSituations like this are difficult. I support schools having dress codes. The real question here is whether or not the school is “Hiding” behind the dress code to mask a lack of support for our troops or whether they are truly just trying to uphold the law of the school district.
Report Post »However, I would like to say to the Perez-Gorda Family, I can not change your local school district and I know there are many variables when considering a location to live and raise your family. But if you want to be around like-minded, patriotic, soldier-sailor-airmen-marine loving people, we would love to have your family in Idaho! God Bless, and I pray the school administrators are truly just trying to uphold a rule.
lukerw
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:07pmTEXAS: You are a Target under attack by Liberal Infiltraitors!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:06pmI’d like to see what the other children are wearing before I make a comment.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:30pmSpankDaMonkey, you pick a few bad apples and project it on the whole state. Way to go, dude, way to go.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:05pm.
I keep trying to tell Ya‘ll Texas Suck’s……..
And to make it worse I have to Vote for Mitt……
Report Post »IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:24pm@spankdamonkey
Report Post »Being, a native born Texan I am offended by your comment. Currently TX is one of the fastest growing states in the USA. Like many states we are not perfect but we try! We are receiving hundreds of individuals weekly that have come here to find work and hope! I’m not sure but I do believe those that have found a better life here also might differ from you. We also try our best to protect you from what may come across the border the best we can even if Obama continues to encourage illegal immigrants’ to find jobs and allows them to vote and continue to put a burden on the tax payers of Texas and the USA. In what way has the state of Texas done you wrong? Also what does “And to make it worse I have to Vote for Mitt……” have to do with TX? You do not have to vote for Mitt. You can vote for Obama.
COFemale
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:34pmNobody is making you vote for Mitt. You have a choice. Vote Obama, Vote Mitt, or Don’t vote. Nobody is making you do anything.
Report Post »CONSERVATIVE SUMMER
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:53pmI remember a certain occurrence in 2005 that had it not been for the State of Texas Louisiana would still be trying to figure out where to house evacuees….. Think before you open your mouth!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:03pm.
In what way has the state of Texas done you wrong?…….
The State of Texas allowed a crooked contractor to steal over $300k from us, not to mention the crooked POS Judge that let the POS who beat our 13 month old grandchild over a french fry go after 90 days, and the same POS Judge fined me a $1000 dollars and put me in jail for 3 days for telling him what a POS he was……….
That’s what Texas has done……….
TEXAS SUCKS PEROID……………
And to make it worse I have to Vote for Mitt “Frick’in” Romney……………
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:56pmHe’s a Katrina refugee. Kinda lost and alone. But he likes french fries. I know THAT.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:03pmLet us see what the other students are wearing.
Report Post »Carborendum
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:03pmIf they truly are being consistent about the dress code, then I guess that is fair. But I’d be interested in seeing if that is really the case, or if the school is only applying it to these girls.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:01pmif it violatesa the rules it does…follow the rules..teach your children well…or move them out of the school if you disagree.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:00pmI support a school that has the guts to enforce a proper dress code. When I went to school, we had to abide by a dress code and it was a good thing.
Report Post »Eaglesnest
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:58amIf they have a standardized dress code, then you must follow it. Perhaps they should have petitioned for special permission to wear it once a month or something like that. I think they are trying to cause trouble, although I completely support the cause they represent.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:56amThe kids should have worn a Polo shirt with the charity’s logo on it. Rules: followed. Problem: solved.
Report Post »chubby
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:51amWould another child be in trouble if he/she wore a OWC shirt?
Report Post »If there is a formal dress code then EVERYONE should have to comply. If there is not dress code prohibiting this attire the school should back off.
Another reason for school uniforms even in public schools.
Mutiny
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:51amIf this is happening in Texas we are all screwed. I am almost to the point where I believe this country deserves Obama and the Communist hammer.
Why is the Blaze not reporting on the house passing CISPA? Everyone’s beloved Col. West voted for it. We are losing freedoms weekly now. You people need to wake up and realize both sides are working hard against us. Everyone of of the so called Tea Party class of 2010 that has voted to strip our freedoms away have to be gone. We need to have a brokered convention and put in a candidate that wants to restore our freedoms not take them way like Obama.
WAKE UP!!!
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:45amThen pay for a polo style version then. Sounds like they wanted to provoke an incident. I have to side with the school on this one.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:56ami must agree……………50 years ago we had dress code in school and i got busted for not wearing a belt………….follow the rules or get busted
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:13pmOLDGUY49, That was the first thing that popped into my mind as I finished the story. I got nailed once when I forgot to wear a belt. Back then T shirts were underwear only except for PE. Even then we wore a school issued shorts and T shirts but could wear gray only sweats during cold weather. No sandals and never get caught without socks.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:27pmyep…..and we had prayer in the school and pledge of allegance and corporal punishment………….i still have no arrest record and work for a living……….go figure
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