NC SPIN notes the high rate of
school suspensions in the state and the potentially deleterious effects
of suspensions. Wake County Public Schools have a relatively obscure
policy that started this school year to expel student for a second
offense of gang-related “Illustrations/Symbols/Pictures/Gestures/Etc.”
It takes three strikes to be expelled for wearing gang-related attire.

Join a gang, get out of school. Some of my high school classmates would have started gangs if this policy had been in effect.