Posted on 12/15/2007 3:03:53 PM PST by DryFly
(12-14) 17:53 PST NAPA VALLEY -- A Napa Valley middle school's decision to bar a child from class last winter for wearing a pair of Tigger socks has proved costly.
The Napa Valley Unified School District is on the hook for at least $95,000 in lawyers' fees under a legal settlement announced Thursday between the district and five Napa families who challenged the school's dress code.
That's enough to pay the salaries of two teachers for a year, but it's only about a quarter of what the district would have had to pay if it went on to lose the Tiggergate lawsuit instead of settling.
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The foolish from the public schools never seems to end.
These people are teaching our children.
I have some Superman underwear. I’m not sure what that has to do with anything either.
Ok, I read the article, and understand more. It’s a middle school and she was wearing the socks with a denim skirt, violating the dress code. Now it makes a little more sense.
Go to your room.
“Wow, I think it’s, like, really great that we’ve got it finally settled,” said Toni Kay Scott, 14, who wore the controversial socks with the Winnie the Pooh character on the first day of school last year. “It’s pretty awesome.”
Toni Kay, now in high school, wore the socks and a prohibited denim skirt in an act of civil disobedience supported by her mother. A handful of other classmates joined her, wearing prohibited attire such as jeans and a “Jesus Freak” T-shirt.
A school police officer escorted them to the principal’s office, and they were barred from class.
“I wasn’t, like, too nervous because it’s not like I was going to go to jail or anything,” she said. “I thought it was pretty ridiculous. It’s a Disney character. All the little kids wear it, and once we’re in middle school we’re not allowed to wear it anymore? That’s over the top.”
But the case was not just about a pair of Tigger socks, said lawyer Julia Harumi Mass of the ACLU of Northern California, who represented the families. “It’s really about freedom of expression and tolerating individuality, which are core values of our society.”
Every penny that is needed to pay the lawyers fees should come directly out of the salarys of the Napa Valley school district from the top right down to the janators. Next time they may think before they act!
A little more info, it was staged from the beginning. The idea behind civil disobediance is that you are willing to accept the consequence of said disobediance.
You may call it teaching,I would call it destroying.
Yes, how dare a school try to institute a school dress code, insisting that children wear appropriate clothing for an educational environment. Next the ACLU will tackle this discriminatory grading scheme where some students get better grades than others, making some feel bad.
I wonder what kind of trouble I would get in if I were at a public school? They say *gasp* "Cabelas" on them.
No. Dress codes are not groovy.
I bet WE foot the lawyers’ fees on this one.
I LOVE Tigger.
See, it was staged. Now I side with the school. Parents are trouble-makers, probably ACLU members, definitely hippies/ libs. Kids are bratty. Narcissism run amok.
I still like Tigger tho.
So you think this kind of crap should cost a school district $95K +. And that 95k should come from the district’s funds? This could have been settled with out a team of lawyers.
No doubt Toni would draw a blank if someone asked her who A. A. Milne was.
See, it was staged. Now I side with the school. Parents are trouble-makers, probably ACLU members, definitely hippies/ libs. Kids are bratty. Narcissism run amok.
I still like Tigger tho.
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