Florida dad defends fifth-grade son wearing Hooters mask to school

A Florida dad says there’s nothing wrong with his fifth-grade son wearing a Hooters-themed mask to school– after the principal said it was “offensive” and made the boy take it off.

“He told me it was deemed offensive,” Steve Golba told Fox 35 Orlando. “I told him we go there as a family. We eat their wings, we watch sports. I said we have chocolate cake! We go there all the time. It is not an offensive mask.”

Ian Golba, 11, has been wearing the mask, covered with the name of the restaurant, to Sunset Park Elementary in Windermere since school began in August.

But on Tuesday, a teacher confronted him about it, WESH reported.

“I wore it and she said it was not appropriate for school,” Ian told the outlet. “I asked her why, and she said, ‘If you really want to know why, go ask the principal.’”

Ian said he did just that.

“[The principal] told me to take it off three times and I asked him why,” the pre-teen said. “He said, ‘just take it off,’ so I took it off and I had to wear a different mask.”

The principal told Ian the mask was “inappropriate because it expresses a woman’s body,” he told Fox 35.

But the dad thinks otherwise.

“I’ve never viewed it as anything but a restaurant. Do we feel women’s bodies are offensive? I don’t know. I don’t. The Principal told me that it was inappropriate. I said I don’t understand why it’s inappropriate. There’s nothing wrong with that mask,” he told the outlet.

And he won’t stop taking his family to Hooters.

“We do like the chicken wings. They have the best chicken wings,” the father said,

A school district spokesperson could not comment to the station about Ian’s case, but said masks are covered in the dress section of the Student Code of Conduct.

via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/17/florida-dad-defends-fifth-grade-son-wearing-hooters-mask-to-school/

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