SEDALIA, MO. (AP) -- T-shirts promoting the Smith-Cotton High School band's fall program have been recalled because of concerns about the shirt's evolution theme.
Assistant superintendent Brad Pollitt says parents complained to him after the band marched in the Missouri State Fair parade. He says he ordered band members to turn in the shirts because the school district is obligated to remain neutral on religion.
The light gray shirts feature an image of a monkey progressing through various stages of evolution until eventually becoming a
human. Each figure holds a brass instrument that also evolves, illustrating the theme "Brass Evolutions."
The district will have to absorb the $700 cost of the shirts, which will be replaced as soon as administrators approve the new
ones.
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