A seventh grader at George Junior High School in Texas says he was forced to cover up his Star Wars t-shirt because it had a picture of a weapon on it — and that was just too violent for school.

Joe Southern told a local ABC News affiliate that his son Colton had worn the shirt to class several times before without any problem. After all, it’s pretty unassuming: Just a black tee that says “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” above a picture of a Storm Trooper with his weapon. (You know, the kind of thing that’s literally everywhere right now that you couldn’t avoid seeing if you tried.)

But according to Southern, administrators told Colton on Thursday that the shirt violated the dress code’s ban on “symbols oriented towards violence” and he would have to cover it up with his sweatshirt.

Southern told ABC that he thought the school was taking things way too far:

“You’re talking about a Star Wars t-shirt, a week before the biggest movie of the year comes out,” he said. “It has nothing to do with guns or making a stand. It’s just a Star Wars shirt.”

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Seems obvious, right? Well, the administrators don’t think so. In fact, they told ABC that Colton actually got off easy — he could have gotten an in-school suspension for wearing the shirt.

Yikes.

Always good to see administrators focusing on the most important things.

— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review.

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