Posted on 03/20/2007 8:59:02 PM PDT by SmithL
Napa, Calif. (AP) -- A seventh-grader might end up in court for wearing Winnie the Pooh socks to school. Toni Kay Scott, 14, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems last year for violating a dress code, according to a lawsuit against the Napa Valley Unified School District and Redwood Middle School.
She had donned socks with the Tigger character from the Winnie the Pooh cartoons on them, along with a denim skirt and a brown shirt with a pink border.
But the school's policy requires students to wear clothes with solid colors in blue, white, green, yellow, khaki, gray, brown and black. Permitted fabrics are cotton twill, corduroy and chino. No denim is allowed.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Napa County Superior Court by The American Civil Liberties Union and a law firm on the girl's behalf,
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Students With Attitude Problems
SWAP
Students Wearing Animal Pictures
Damn!
You get rules changed...not break them.
Tigger = Confederate Flag = Minnie Mouse = Swastika = Patrick Bateman = smiley clover leaves = Jesse Jackson = Pamela Lee's boobs
It really doesn't matter. The girl broke the rules. And I guarantee you some sort of other stink arose over this, probably not of the girl's own doing.
Sorry, Toni. You do the crime, you do the time. String her up, I say!
The title is misleading - notice the stated dress code down the article. It doesn't mention the socks. The violation was over the denim skirt (denim is not allowed).
I guess you could also sort of included the socks as "not a solid color", but the violation was already there.
And disagreeing with the dress code is not an excuse to blatantly break it.
Does she have to register as a socks offender?
Anyone with Winnie the Pooh socks is special.
Heck, I walked to school barefoot, through 18 inches of snow, with no socks, and a senior at 27.
:O)
If you add 6 years to the grade level you get the kids age. Depends on when their birthday is too. So +1 or -1.
So it wasn't the Tigger socks, it was the denim skirt. She and her parents knew the dress code. If she want to wear what SHE wants to wear, she can always go to another school.
The real issue seems to be if your basic neighborhood school have a dress code that strict. They may have a point.
What is it about socks? I went to a boarding school where we had to wear a tie and blazer. I remember talking to a teacher and leaning forward slightly so he wouldn't notice I wasn't wearing socks. I don't know how far back this goes, but loafers with no socks were pretty popular in college in the sixties. I like to think I was in the vanguard on this one.
Anyway, in those days it was just us against them. We didn't have lawyers.
One friend told me not to spend too much money on a jacket because the boys usually crammed it into their lockers at the end of the day, just to pull it out the next morning. I took our son to a discount store, and we found three jackets that he didn't mind wearing. I bought him four pairs of pants that would match or go with all of the jackets, then let him pick out a couple of ties. When we got home, I showed him which outfits went together, and I never had to bother with it again.
Famous phrase of the much ignored Eeyore...."Nobody Cares"
OK, maybe I'm just dim, but the dress code seems odd - is it about gang colors?
If so, would it make more sense to do something about gang activity and not worry about the color of a shirt??
Re your post # 9 - I, too, am on the side of Winnie the Pooh (and the ACLU) in this matter. Someone should point out to the school district the following; (1) Winnie the Pooh is beloved by children around the universe, and (2) the girl showed up for school, which is a lot more than we can say about some students who are constantly absent. If she also does her work, and is on time, and polite, and studies hard, and all the rest, then, perhaps the school district should not be so concerned about students wearing Winnie the Pooh socks. People love the Winnie the Pooh and the children's literature connected with Winnie the Pooh. It is not offensive.
Good thing she didn't wear Piglet socks, would have offended the Muzzies, don'cha know?
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