A student who was sent home from a United States school for wearing a "satanic" T-shirt should have been allowed to stay in class, an education department official has ruled.
When Robert Parker turned up for lessons at Westerly High School in Westerly, Rhode Island, wearing a rock band T-shirt bearing the numerals 666, school officials sent him home.
They said the T-shirt, relating to the now defunct band White Zombie, posed a threat to school order, and told him never to wear it to school again. This was because the numerals 666 are believed by some to refer to the devil.
What is the world coming to.