Yes... outrageous, something needed to be done. Odd, I find myself actually siding with the ACLU on this one.
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?
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.
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??
Good thing she didn't wear Piglet socks, would have offended the Muzzies, don'cha know?
School bureaucrat: "Oh, it's TIGGER! Never mind."
I still hope the ACLU dies in a fire.
End taxpayer-funding and government involvement in schools, and these problems will never occur.
The school has a dress code. Just change socks and wear those socks at home.
The article didn't list the parents' names or anything more about them. Sounds as if the parents of little Toni Kay had her deliberately wear denim so they could file a lawsuit and get some cash and publicity. They knew the rules and deliberately broke them.
I have nothing but contempt and disgust for the parents of Toni Kay Scott.
Kids seem to understand something like that and there is really nothing to argue about.
In this case she has been told, for all intents and purposes, that she has an attitude problem. I think the school is escalating a minor objective rule infraction into a subjective values based confrontation by naming the ISS 'students with attitude problems' .
Schools can get themselves into enough trouble as it is. In this case I think they're asking for more of it, and, If they're looking for bad attitudes I'm sure they'll find them.
On the other hand, a lot of 'attitudes' decide to follow the rules after a few bouts involving enforcement of well defined rules and low key, objectively rationed consequences for not following them.