<p>If they want to ban college wear, they should ban ALL college wear, rather than carve out an exclusion for the state schools. Maybe there is a compelling reason (not the the wolverines are a gang, but that local gangs “borrow” their colors), but it seems silly to ban it in the younger grades. If you’re going to impose a ban at the HS level, what’s to stop the gangs from adopting the local school colors? It sounds like they carved out an exception because otherwise the policy would be too unpopular - well, too bad. Either the gang problem is bad enough to enact a ban, or it isn’t! Imagine the HS Senior who is accepted to UMich, and can’t wear their t-shirt, while his classmates who choose to stay in-state can, or the student whose older sibling attends Harvard or Princeton (or wherever else).</p>