'This is just disgraceful': Mississippi high school BANS senior T-shirt that lists the names of three dead students and the dismissive movie phrase, 'Bye Felicia' (4 Pics)

A Mississippi high school has banned students from wearing their senior shirt that includes the names of three students who died this year and the phrase 'Bye, Felicia'. 
Parents and students of Pascagoula High School began receiving the T-shirts on Thursday, that immediately sparked backlash with the student body. 
The senior class shirts included the names of deceased seniors Blayze M. Broadus and Jonathan McCommon, who both passed away in a car accident in June, and Matthew Russell Parker.
Pascagoula High School in Mississippi has banned the senior class' graduating T-shirt that has the phrase 'Bye, Felicia' juxtaposed to the names of three deceased students 
Students and parents started to receive the shirt on Thursday and were outraged to find the shirt listed the names of three deceased seniors with the phrase, known as a cold way to say goodbye
Despite the efforts to commemorate their peers, students and parents were outraged that the shirt included the phrase 'Bye, Felicia' - coined by Ice Cube in the 1999 film Friday as a cold way to say goodbye. 
'I’m just crushed by this. What else could they do? What other pain does a parent have to go through?' Blayze's grandmother and caregiver Vicki Broadus said to the Sun Herald.  
'You just begin to stop crying every day and then some idiot comes up with something like this. I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. This is just disgraceful,' she added. 
The shirt was designed by some Pascagoula High administrators and students.

Superintendent Wayne Rodolfich and the school district banned the shirts from being worn on school property of school functions on Friday. The school district will order and pay for new ones for the seniors 
By mid-morning on Friday Pascagoula School Superintendent Wayne Rodolfich and the school district banned the shirts from being worn on school property of school functions. 
'The names on the back of the shirts, I believe, were well-intentioned. I think that was a way to honor those students but when you look at the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt, it was not appropriate,' Rodolfich said to the local paper.     
Rodolfich said that the names of the three students were not included in the original approved shirt design. 
'It was added outside of the protocol of the school district. The school district is going to let the students get new senior shirts that are in good taste. The school district is going to pay for it,' he added.    
'This is just disgraceful': Mississippi high school BANS senior T-shirt that lists the names of three dead students and the dismissive movie phrase, 'Bye Felicia' (4 Pics) 'This is just disgraceful': Mississippi high school BANS senior T-shirt that lists the names of three dead students and the dismissive movie phrase, 'Bye Felicia' (4 Pics) Reviewed by CUZZ BLUE on December 10, 2018 Rating: 5

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