“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.”
No doubt Toni would draw a blank if someone asked her who A. A. Milne was.
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If this had been a private school and not a government school compelled by law, there would be no case. Why is that?
Answer: There is a fundamental conflict between the First Amendment and **compulsory** government schools. The two can NOT coexist! It is impossible!
Why?
Answer: To maintain an orderly school, speech, press, free association, and practice of religion **must** be restricted. Also, there is no such thing as a religiously neutral education.
Also,,,**compulsion** means police, court, and foster care action. That is what government power is. So...the government threatens parents with imprisonment, and then herds the children into an environment in which government workers tell the children to shut up, forbid free press, dictate with whom they will associate, forbid religious expression, and finally indoctrinate them in the religion of Secular Humanism!
If the taxpayer balks at this travesty. Armed sheriffs stand ready to auction his home and business. If he resists, they will imprison him. If he seriously resists they will kill him.
Aren’t government schools great! ( Excuse me while I go barf!)
There is a solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.