That’s right, private schools do get to pick and choose, is some leftist activist wants to bring their kid in there and try to cause a federal case by intentionally sending them to school in some T-shirt that assaults the sensibilities of most folks, that kid and their parents are sent packing as they should be... back down the road to the public school system that is to education what public housing is to housing.
I am glad they get to pick and choose, because I do not want my childs education being compromised by such idiocy! Any parent that subjects their children willfully to the public school system today, that has the means to provide for their education otherwise, is frankly guilty of neglect and abuse.
Public Schools are neccessary, and guaranteeing an education to all citizens is a good thing, but public schools will ALWAYS be the bottom of the barrel and its the very nature that they cannot get rid of issues like problem students and parents that are at the heart of it.
There is a reason most public school teachers I know send their kids to private schools, just as most politicians do too.. Its not a coincidence.
Groupthink? Are you kidding me. The bastion of liberal thought is in the public school systems and their tolerate anything at any cost for fear of making some kids self esteem hurt.
Schools in the 70s underperformed their private school counterparts, believe me I attended school in the 70s, both public and private, and the difference just as today was night and day.
Group Think is the hallmark of the public education system... indoctrination... granting superficial “individualization” while filling the mind with group think propoganda.
You seem to be implying that uniforms encourage liberalism, when its unfettered tolerance of everything that is the hallmark of liberalism. The thing about individualism and rights that most leftist fail to understand is that while you may have a right to do whatever you feel, the rest of the world is under no obligation to accept you for it, agree with you for it, or condone you for it. You are free to exercise your right, and everyone else is free to tell you get bent.
I find it beyond amazing you are actually trying to argue that public schools are bastions of conservatism, and private schools that are proven throughout time to produce better students and achievers on average than their public school counterparts are the ones that are steeped in liberalism.
When a child or a childs parent thinks that their child’s right to disrupt the education of dozens of others supersedes everyone elses right to get a decent education that is not conservative thought or ideology driving such nonsense.
I just want to point out that the school in this story is a charter school, which is a publicly funded school. It’s a public school.
I went to private/Catholic schools through ninth grade. We wore uniforms everyday; the boys had to keep their hair cut above their collars; we girls had to keep our uniform dresses a certain length. Drugs, alcohol, and sex permeated those Catholic schools, too. As private schools, they were able to expel students with bad conduct, but most students got away with bad behavior. To an outsider, though, the schools had a nice image because the students were dressed in uniforms. But it was all an illusion. Uniforms alone don’t make good kids.