Posted on 02/09/2005 8:22:38 PM PST by stainlessbanner
SHEPHERDSVILLE - A mother has pulled her son out of Bullitt Central High School after protesting what she calls an unfair application of the school's dress code.
Lisa Whiteside began pro-testing outside Bullitt Central last week after learning that two Muslim students who had enrolled after winter break had been allowed to wear a hijab, a traditional head scarf that covers the hair and neck.
Whiteside said her son, a senior, was given in-school suspension for wearing a white button-down shirt.
School board attorney Eric Farris said that school records indicated that the student wasn't disciplined, but he received a warning Sept. 1 that his shirt was a violation of the school's dress code, which requires students to wear polo-style shirts.
The dress code also prohibits "headwear," including hats, visors, bandannas and sunglasses.
Farris said federal protections of such religious garments as hijabs override the dress code.
Whiteside said her son was turned away from the school Thursday when he wore a T-shirt with the words "FBI" and "Firm Believer In Christ" on it.
Farris said Whiteside and her son went to the school office and asked administrators whether he could wear the shirt.
When they said no, she told them she would remove him from the school, he said.
Bullitt Central's dress code prohibits T-shirts of any kind, unless they feature the school's logo. It also requires students to wear khaki, black or navy pants, skirts or walking shorts. Students may wear jeans on special days scheduled by administrators.
Whiteside said she transferred her son to the school district's adult learning center, in part because of a disagreement with Bullitt Central administrators over her son's writing portfolio.
School officials and students said Whiteside's protests attracted the attention of the Ku Klux Klan. She was joined outside the school by men and women, some of whom wore white robes and carried Confederate flags and white-supremacist regalia.
Whiteside said she didn't organize any involvement with the KKK, adding that her concerns were being misconstrued by students and school officials as racially driven.
"That got out of hand," she said.
But Farris said if anyone has made the issue a racial argument, it was Whiteside. Bullitt Central student Charlie Johnson, a senior and student government officer, agreed with Farris.
"I feel they were using the dress code to hit on something broader, and that's hate," Johnson said.
Whiteside denied that her protest had racial overtones.
"It wasn't a racial thing. It was about equal rights and fairness to all students," she said.
Whiteside said last week she would no longer demonstrate and that she planned to circulate a petition pushing for "equal rights for everyone."
This woman is starting trouble. She is wrong.
A definite crime. </sarcasm>
No, no, no. You must not do that. Equal protection under the law, in this politically correct society, only applies to MINORITIES, not the majority Caucasion Race.
white button shirt = gang member?
So Muslims can do anything they want in the USA and native citizens can't now?
And by the way, what the hell are Muslims doing in Kentucky?
Bit by bit the camel eases his nose under the tent, then his head and neck, pretty soon, there's no room for anything else in the tent. France is 10% Muslim, same or worse for Holland, Belgium, etc. Pretty soon Muslims outbreed the locals. It's happening in Europe. More Mosques here everyday. Don't get me started.
Sorry. No special exceptions for any religion orbelief unless exceptions are made for all. Equality before the law or we have no law.
.....Cool......
/Sarcasm
That's funny, I thought she wanted the same rights as the Muslims. It must be hateful to want to be equal.
Ah, the liberal propaganda is finally taking hold.
Now if I'm the school administrator, I'd sure think that dropping a dime to the local KKK branch to come 'help out' the protesting mother was a neato way of getting myself out of a jam. "Look, ignore her, she's just a racist!".
Exactly!
And by the way, what the hell are Muslims doing in Kentucky?
Taking over!
Bit by bit the camel eases his nose under the tent, then his head and neck, pretty soon, there's no room for anything else in the tent. France is 10% Muslim, same or worse for Holland, Belgium, etc. Pretty soon Muslims outbreed the locals. It's happening in Europe. More Mosques here everyday. Don't get me started.
That's how they are going to destroy America, and with the idiots we have in our "government", and the ACLU coaching them, they'll have a lot of help doing it.
A scarf worn in accordance with her religion's rules/laws is proper to wear anywhere.
The same would be allowed for strictly-raised Catholic girls when they wear their veils.
What about the religions that require strict dress codes of women's dresses mid-calf at the highest? Men required to wear black hats (to be removed indoors) but may only wear black and white?
Many religions have strict dress codes, and any attempt to pass a law prohibiting proper dress required by a religious conviction is simply unconstitutional.
Congress shall make NO LAW ......
Strictly raised Catholic girls only wear a veil in the church. You don't have to wear them all the time.
If she's a Christian she has to be wrong.
If she's white she has to be wrong too. The whole thing is you need to despise the white, the male, the ultra-conservative, the USA lover and the Christian.
Didn't you learn ANYTHING from Bush's inaugural speech??? The Qu'ran and Islam were principal influences on the founding of this republic. In fact the first draft of Jefferson's 1st Amendment read "Congress shall make no law which disrespects the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon Him", before it was thwarted by colonial Zionists. Madison's journals tell of how he spent many hours on his mat praying to Allah in between sessions in Philadelphia. And the real reason devout Muslim Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel was because Hamilton blasphemed against the Qu'ran in a speech Congress...but this was covered up by the Zionist media.
Please see the CAIR website for more facts about the Founding Imams of America.
How is that for equality?
You may be right that it's their "constitutional right" (assuming this school is a public school) to wear clothes according to their religion.
But, I can understand the boy's mother's frustration with the dress code.
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