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70 Students Suspended Protesting Shirt-Tucking Rule

POSTED: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
UPDATED: 3:55 pm EDT September 12, 2007

About 70 students at Rogers High School in Tulsa are being suspended after they protested a new requirement that they tuck in their shirts.

Officials said the students are being suspended for five days for breaking a rule that prohibits "encouraging other students to violate school rules or regulations."

Tulsa Public Schools spokeswoman Tami Marler said the protesters were distracting students who were in class and were trying to attract students between classes.

The shirt-tucking rule was instituted by Superintendent Michael Zolkoski after he visited the campus on the first day of school.

"Someone who wore a shirt that was too long, they hid a weapon in it and now everyone one else in the Tulsa public school system has to suffer," a student said. "I don't think that that's right."

Marler said the protesting students spent nearly five hours across the street from the school and the school was locked down at the recommendation of police.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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