School District Bans Mac Dre Imagery On Clothing
Clothing featuring the late Bay Area rapper Mac Dre has been banned in Riverbank, Calif. due to the slain rappers “glorification of drug use,” educational officials told the San Jose Mercury News.
Riverbank Unified School District board members voted unanimously yesterday (Jan. 9) to ban clothing bearing Mac Dre’s image or brand name at the district’s only high school, Riverbank High.
Mac Dre’s clothing was added to a long list of banned names and labels that the school district prohibits from the dress code.
School officials said Mac Dre's popularization of the word "thizz, " which is street slang for the drug ecstasy, was the reason the rapper's image was banned from the school.
According to Riverbank High’s principal Ken Geisick, none of the high school’s students have been disciplined for having possession of or using ecstasy in the last four years.
Geisick also told the Mercury News that images of other popular Bay-Area rappers are still permitted on clothing.
Administrators review the school’s dress code policy every year.
Other phrases and brands on the banned include "eight ball," "Joe Camel," "Nor Cal," "Rolling Hard," "Sol Beer," "south pole" "vato loco" and others.
Officials noted that many of these phrases and images are prohibited because they are affiliated with gangs.
Mac Dre was gunned down in Kansas City, Mo., in 2004 while returning to his hotel after a concert performance.
Riverbank Unified School District board members voted unanimously yesterday (Jan. 9) to ban clothing bearing Mac Dre’s image or brand name at the district’s only high school, Riverbank High.
Mac Dre’s clothing was added to a long list of banned names and labels that the school district prohibits from the dress code.
School officials said Mac Dre's popularization of the word "thizz, " which is street slang for the drug ecstasy, was the reason the rapper's image was banned from the school.
According to Riverbank High’s principal Ken Geisick, none of the high school’s students have been disciplined for having possession of or using ecstasy in the last four years.
Geisick also told the Mercury News that images of other popular Bay-Area rappers are still permitted on clothing.
Administrators review the school’s dress code policy every year.
Other phrases and brands on the banned include "eight ball," "Joe Camel," "Nor Cal," "Rolling Hard," "Sol Beer," "south pole" "vato loco" and others.
Officials noted that many of these phrases and images are prohibited because they are affiliated with gangs.
Mac Dre was gunned down in Kansas City, Mo., in 2004 while returning to his hotel after a concert performance.
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