ORLANDO, Fla. – High school senior Jack Englund thinks school officials owe him an apology.

The 17-year-old was forced to remove his “character day” costume for Dr. Phillips High School’s Homecoming Spirit Week after school administrators didn’t approve of his Trojan Man persona, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Donned in a red cape and blue placard with Trojan scrawled across the top, Englund was sent to the office almost immediately upon arriving at school.

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“I got to class, first period, and the teacher told me to go to the administration office,” Englund told WFTV.com. “I was told to take it off and leave it there for the day.”

“The principal did not respond to a request for comment, but district spokeswoman Kathy Marsh said school officials may prevent students from wearing anything that may ‘cause an undue disruption to the normal order of classroom business,’” according to the Sentinel.

“I don’t see how my piece of cardboard and cape are any more districting” than other Spirit Week consumes, Englund told the Sentinel.

His mother, lawyer Sandy Pfau Englund, agreed, and said school officials need to grow up.

“These are high school students going to college next year,” she told the Sentinel. “Let’s be realistic. They watch a lot of things on Netflix that are a lot more out there than the word ‘Trojan’ on a poster.”

Jordan Behler, a friend and Englund’s band mate, told the news site he thought the costume was a good way to broach the subject of casual sex among students.

“I didn’t think they were going to do anything about it,” he said.

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Englund told WFTV he thought the incident amounted to school censorship, and legal experts seem to be on his side.

“I just feel like school uses their authority over students that go there to only allow what messages they want to get out,” he said.

“There’s certainly a First Amendment issue here. There is a right to express yourself, even as a student,” Larry Walters, a free speech attorney told WFTV. “Students don’t leave their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse door.”

Walters pointed out that while the student dress code prohibits students from wearing anything sexual, vulgar, or drug- or alcohol-related, “the actual makeup of the costume itself did not appear to be lewd, as most people would understand that term and as the courts have interpreted that term.”

Englund told the media he does not intend to take legal action against the school district, but an apology would be nice.

“If the school were to allow me to wear it again for the day, I would love to,” he told WFTV.

Many who commented online thought the whole debacle was kind of silly.

“He wasn’t trying to promote safe sex. He was trying to get attention from his friends by being stupid. He knows that costume is ‘inappropriate’ for a high school environment,” Mr. Exact posed to the Orlando Sentinel.

“And I don’t agree with the mother’s statement, either. I don’t think kids should have this behavior in either high school or college. Schools are to learn, not dress like condoms and mess around,” he added. “The administration handled it correctly. Especially in high school, if one kid gets away with something everyone else follows.”

“There’s no safe sex message here. The kid just wanted to come to school dressed as a condom. The incident will be spoken of at every reunion of this high school until there’s no one in this class left alive,” FormerHater posted.

“All he wants is an apology. What a messed up world,” samsecure wrote.

Others defended the student.

“I’m confused, it’s okay to give condoms, but you can’t dress as one?” Tony1069 posted. “I also disagree with Mr. Exact, maybe he was promoting safe sex.”