By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org

CONVERSE, Texas – Two elementary students whose father was injured during military duty in Afghanistan were reprimanded for violating the student dress code by wearing t-shirts with the logo of a non-profit agency that is helping their family.

The girls, Savannah and Taylor Perez-Gorda, attend Masters Elementary in the Judson Independent School District in Texas, where school officials took issue with a logo on the shirts from the non-profit Homes for Our Troops, which builds specially adapted homes for severely injured veterans.

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The girls’ father, Army Spc. Justin Perez-Gorda, was paralyzed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2011, KENS5.com reports.

The Perez-Gorda family learned earlier this month that Homes for Our Troops could soon help the family rebuild their lives and received t-shirts with the non-profit’s logo last Thursday. Savannah and Taylor wore their shirts to school the next day to show support for their father.

“This organization may build us a home that is safe for my husband,” Josie Perez-Gorda, mother of the girls, told the television station.

But district officials contend that the shirts violate the school dress code policy. Students are required to wear striped or solid polo-style shirts or t-shirts with college or school district logos, KENS5.com reports.

“We do have a standardized dress code,” district spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor told KENS5.com. “We certainly support the military, but we do have to be consistent across the board when it comes to following the dress code.”

Josie Perez-Gorda told the television station that the district’s policy of allowing only some logos and not others doesn’t make sense.

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“These guys are fighting for our country and they should be able to wear something that honors their parents, especially if they are wounded,” she said.