During the public comment period of the Hollister School District board meeting Tuesday, parent Helen Camua asked trustees to reconsider the policy of sending students who wear gang colors home in loaner T-shirts.
When her child showed up to Cerra Vista School in mid-October in a red T-shirt with Snow White on it, staff asked her to pick from a pile of clothes and put on a shirt that was not a gang color, she said.
“There was nothing provocative or vulgar about my child’s ‘Snow White’ T-shirt,” Camua said.
The parent expressed concern that wearing one of the spare T-shirts may have exposed her child to unnecessary “health hazards.”
A week later, Camua’s daughter received a red ribbon as part of the Red Ribbon Week campaign to keep students drug free and Camua remarked the cloth was the same color that caused the staff to send her child home in the clothes of stranger earlier that month.
Principal Pam Little did not reply to an email detailing her concerns, Camua said.
