LAFAYETTE — The principal of Lafayette’s Angevine Middle School is asking parents to discourage their children from wearing colored jelly bracelets to school because of rumors that they carry sexual meanings.
“Reports indicate that the colors of the bracelets signify different inappropriate actions that students will do or have done,” Principal Mike Medina wrote in an e-mail to parents Thursday. “Due to the nature of the inappropriateness associated with these bracelets, we are asking students not to wear them.”
Some Angevine students have been wearing the rubbery bracelets since school started, Medina said, but with more and more children showing up with their wrists covered in the bright bands, school officials felt they were becoming a “substantial distraction to the learning environment.” Medina said he and his staff talked with some of the kids about the trend and learned about a hidden meaning.
“If they’re a distraction — especially if they may have some significance associated with inappropriate sexual activity — parents don’t want that, and we’re just being proactive,” Medina said.
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