School Made to Pay $95,000 for Pooh-Pooh'ed Dress Code

FOX ^ | 12/16/07 | Unknown

[Froufrou]

Officials in a Northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers' fees to five families who sued the school over its dress code.

The parents went to court after a student was disciplined for wearing socks with the "Winnie the Pooh" cartoon character Tigger on the first day of school last year.

The district's superintendent said Thursday that the settlement money is for the plaintiffs' lawyers; the district is also on the hook to pay the lawyers it hired.

The settlement also says Redwood Middle School may no longer require students to wear only solid-color clothing.

[NonValueAdded]

There is no additional info at the link. It is a pretty sparse report and at first blush, looks like the school admin were morons. But consider that last sentence again. The settlement also says Redwood Middle School may no longer require students to wear only solid-color clothing. Ah, a dress code might have existed. Not very wise to do day one enforcement but what is so bad about a school having and enforcing a dress code? How did that get thrown out and what are the ramifications for other systems trying to get a handle on trashy dress?

[Always Right]

Lucky they weren’t wearing Superman underwear.

[DeLaine]

This is CA?? I don’t know which side to root for. They’re probably both stupid.

[Froufrou]

No doubt.

[Grut]

...but what is so bad about a school having and enforcing a dress code?

I think the idea is that if it's important to have standards, then it's important to have important standards....