You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat! (or wear Tiger socks)
Posted on 12/15/2007 5:22:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO - Officials in a Northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers' fees to five families who sued the school over its dress code.
The parents went to court after a student was disciplined for wearing socks with the "Winnie the Pooh" cartoon character Tigger on the first day of school last year.
The district's superintendent said Thursday that the settlement money is for the plaintiffs' lawyers; the district is also on the hook to pay the lawyers it hired.
The settlement also says Redwood Middle School may no longer require students to wear only solid-color clothing.
The school stated in dress code packets distributed before the school year that students were to wear solid colored socks. The girl in question wore the Tigger socks and a jeans skirt that didn’t meet code requirements. The place to fight this was in school board meetings, not the class room.
agreed, but on the first day of school, to make a “federal case” out of it.. oy. only in California
btw, I don’t have kids so I am neither for or against dress codes.
Another example of litigation madness.
Hard to know without hearing the whole story. But I agree if the school has a dress code the parents need to follow it or go somewhere else. Dress codes have a good purpose.
They don’t care - it is taxpayer money anyway. The way I see it - if making poor decisions would hurt their own pocketbook and career, then they might make better choices.
That's the same thing the illegal aliens protesting in front of a family furniture business in Phoenix say.
Why not? That's like saying that I'm not a woman so I have no opinion on abortion; or I've never served in the military so I have no opinion on the Iraq war.
alright, point taken.. I never had to follow a dress code except at work and in the military. as for school, never had to worry about it..
in some locales, it may be beneficial, is it absolutely a necessity to allow for a better environment for learning, personally, I would doubt it but some folks would say otherwise.
This lawsuit probably would not have happened in a private school? Maybe the govt should get out of education. They aren’t very good at it anyways...
It is completely retarded, that if I do send my kids to private school, that I don’t get to deduct that from my taxes. I do believe, that in Sweden, they finally allowed that, since their schools turned into bogus social experiments too.
Let me see: the parents who won the suit - they pay taxes in that school district, right?
So they're taking money from their own pockets to stick in some shyster's pocket, eh?
Boy THAT makes sense!
Is this a public school? If so, then a dress code like that is completely uncalled for. I can understand restricting gang-related or obscene clothing, or saying something like ‘shirts must have sleeves and shorts/skirts must be below the fingertips’ for basic modesty.
Is this a public school?
Yes,, part of the Napa Valley Unified School District
http://www2.nvusd.k12.ca.us/homex.asp?Q=Homepage
“A pre-announced dress code which the students were well aware of and
intentionally went against should not garner a huge payout for lawyers.”
But this was in California, where anything can and will be litigated.
Which sadly is also increasingly the situation in the rest of the
49 states.
"In the day", 'clean, neat, modest, and in good repair' sufficed.
Interpreting & enforcing that required common sense, some thought & forethought; some basic mutual respect.
Zero tolerance removes those "value judgments", and makes the admins' day easier, at the expense of imparting any wisdom & values to go with what laughingly passes as "educating" their charges.
Unfortunately in the bay area there are no adults in the education bureaucracy. The closest descriptor would be Stalinist.
The kids and parents were right on this one to hit them as hard as they could. The school was trying to manufacture proletariat and they got a group of patriot leaders.
And all the kids involved would have passed your inspection based on that criteria.
required common sense, some thought & forethought; some basic mutual respect.
The educators would have failed your inspection based on that criteria.
Zero tolerance removes those "value judgments"
Only from the truly stupid and incompetent who are already the drones they seek to turn children into.
Kids are always “pushing the envelope” trying to assert independence.
Yep- a state where public indecency by homosexuals is common place (and generally accepted in some cities), but it isn’t ok to wear Winnie the Pooh socks...
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