SAY IT ISN'T SNOW

School Clarifies Ban On T-Shirt

JOHNSTOWN -- Frosty's still cool. It's another snowman that officials
in one Western Pennsylvania school district say isn't so hot.

Greater Johnstown Schools superintendent Barbara Parkins said she was
forced to clarify a ban on one particular type of snowman garb -- a
menacing snowman design first made popular by rapper Young Jeezy --
after some students and parents thought the ban extended to other
holiday-themed clothing.

The best selling T-shirt design inspired by Young Jeezy depicts a
snowman with an angry look on his face that is meant to represent a
drug dealer. Snow is a slang term for cocaine, a white powdery drug.

Some parents thought all snowman garb was off limits, and even
believed the ban extended to snowflakes and other holiday designs,
Parkins said.

"We aren't letting our students wear the Young Jeezy T-shirt,"
Parkins said. "Snowmen aren't banned from our schools."

Parkins said snowmen even decorated the holiday cards she handed out
to her staff.

"Because we don't permit any kind of promoting drugs in the school,
that is the reason" for the ban, Parkins said. "We found it to be
educationally disruptive."