Last week, a high school sophomore wore an AntiWar T-shirt she purchased at a thrift store to school and was suspended for 10-days for refusing to turn it inside out. The 2003 winter home coming queen, an honors student with a 3.8 GPA, posted a message on a teen forum asking for advice regarding her case.

“I am so mad because I am a sophomore and I don’t want to fail ya know?
This really pissed me off. So I am suspended right now and everything.
What do you guys think? I think its b!#%&*!#”

A member of the AntiWar LiveJournal community posted the 16-year olds forum message to the group. In order to understand the reasons why the student was punished so harshly, questions from the community are being emailed to the student. Her unedited answers are published to the thread.

Last month, Bretton Barber, a high school junior in Dearborn Heights, Mich., was sent home for the day for wearing a T-shirt purchased off the Internet with a picture of President Bush and the words "International Terrorist." School officials permitted the 16-year-old student to return to campus the next day.

At the moment, this story has a beginning and middle but it does not have an end.

To learn more, to watch the tale unfold or if you are a LiveJournal member and would like to participate in creating this story, go to the LiveJournal AntiWar Community Thread: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=antiwar&itemid=634947

Non-LiveJournal members can also participate in the story creation and voice their comments and concerns through a thread made today in the New Digital Reporter’s Journal (blog): http://www.livejournal.com/users/ndr