In one of the most foul, cowardly and disgusting acts we’ve yet heard of, a young 11 year old student of a Montreal school was expelled from school for wearing an Ottawa Senators jersey to school instead of a Montreal Canadians jersey. The school had encouraged the students to wear their Habs jersey instead of their school uniform.
Keila Penner, who attends Maple Grove Elementary School in Lachine, is not a Habs’ fan, and so she chose to wear her Sens’ jersey instead. She was ordered to change her shirt. She could either wear her school uniform or a Canadiens’ jersey that the gym teacher held out to her.
Her response? “I told her, I’m not taking off my shirt.” So her father had to come and get her.
The bullied child bravely stood her ground and the Ottawa Senators ownership later, to reward her for her loyalty in the face of the violence of school officials, sent a limo around to her home and treated her and her family to a free day at the Ottawa Senators playoff game this evening.
The bullying and cowardly school officials, as is usual in these situations, went into hiding to avoid personal responsibility for their behaviour. What a foul lesson in good sportsmanship this school is teaching. An absolute disgrace and we expect arrests to be made.
