A mother has voiced her complaint about those pink hats protesters wore during the Women's March last January. Students from a club that focuses on women's issues started selling these to the kids and the mom thought it was inappropriate.
Janice D'Angelo, who has a 12-year old daughter at the Pierson Middle-High School in the Sag Harbor district in Long Island, did not think that the pink pussy hats should even be in school. She made her complaints known to Sag Harbor school officials.
"The hats represent a political notion, and it shouldn't be brought into school," the mom said, according to NBC New York. "During lunchtime, I don't want my daughter subjected to a political issue at school," she added.
Thousands of protesters at the Women's March in Washington in January wore those knitted hats. It has become a symbol of solidarity among women fighting for equal rights against the Trump government.
The pink pussy hat got its name from a controversial 2005 video featuring President Donald Trump's remarks about women, Business Insider reports. Co-founder of the Pussyhat Project Krista Suh said their initiative is "about women refusing to be erased from political discussion."
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Soon after the mom complained, school officials talked with the members of the school's women's club. They were asked to stop selling the hats during school hours but the club released a statement saying that this was their decision. The members were selling the hats to raise funds for the newly-formed club.
"It's not disappointing because we're fighting for what we believe in, and we won't be stopped," Sarah Mac said, according to Daily Caller. One Sag Harbor resident, however, believes in the girls' cause. Kathleen Mulcahy said women's issues should be talked about and one way to raise awareness is through the symbolic hats.
Parents, what can you say about this? Was one mom right to complain or is this encroaching on the club's freedom to express their beliefs?
