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ACLU May Sue Florida Schools Over Bra-Less Girl Controversy
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 04/17/18

Posted on 04/17/2018 11:07:22 AM PDT by Liberty7732

The big “Bracott” bra boycott was a big dud — at least as far as student participation in the supposed civil rights violation of the Florida high school girl who had her nipples X’d out with bandages because her bra-less attire was…distracting other students in class.

But the district and all Florida schools may have a bigger problem as the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is looking at suing the district, which is already struggling to find money to put deputies in every school after the Parkland shootings.

The bra boycott was organized by the girl, her gender-centric victimhood mom and a few other activist-oriented students protesting school administrators holding boys and girls to different standards in the school’s dress code. The “protest” urged all the girls to go bra-free in solidarity against…the patriarchy or something.

“They should feel ashamed for slut-shaming that girl for not wearing a bra,” said Isabella Ayer, a student who participated in the protest. Another female student, who wanted to remain anonymous, wore a shirt that stated, “Do my nipples offend you?”

But the school stood firm and said any violations of the school dress code would be met with disciplinary actions. And it turns out when the adults act like adults and do not indulge kids in uninformed grandstanding, things don’t go all haywire. Apparently the level of “civil rights violations” did not strike most of the other high school girls as warranting the risk of discipline. Nothing of subtance happened. There were no dress code disciplinary actions.

“It was a completely uneventful day,” said District spokesman Mike Barber.

Well, not quite. It may have been uneventful as far as the protest goes. But something eventful is bubbling.

The ACLU of Florida is investigating suing the school and the district, said Nancy Abudu, the legal director. “The ACLU is carefully investigating what happened in terms of the policy the school has enforced, and we have been in touch with the family,” Abudu told the Tampa Bay Times’ Gradebook Podcast.

That’s just a terrific way for the school district to have to spend money, defending itself from spurious lawsuits by progressive activists within the ACLU. The district, like others in Florida, is already seeking ways to harden schools and provide law enforcement officers in each school at the cost of millions of dollars that had not been budgeted.

Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a former board member for the national ACLU who did not vote for Trump, has had an epiphany about the organization. He wrote in The Hill: “…over the last several years it has turned from being a neutral civil liberties organization to a left-wing, agenda-driven lobby group…Now, since the election of President Trump, it has sunk to a new low, becoming a cheerleader for the violation of the civil liberties of those on the other side of the political spectrum.”

This has been true of the ACLU for longer than the last several years. But it is gratifying to see someone of Dershowitz’s stature acknowledge it.

The original incident came about two weeks ago when the 17-year-old female Braden River High School student went to school in a loose top without a bra. Her teacher notified school administrators that the revealing outfit was being a distraction in class and administrators determined it to be a violation of the school’s dress code and told her to put a T-shirt on under her loose shirt. But the female administrator thought the girl’s nipples remained too prominent and sent the girl to the nurse’s office to put four band-aids on to “X out her nipples.”

The girl’s story went viral internationally — and The Revolutionary Act was one of the first to report on the girl turning her embarrassment into a civil rights crusade.

We’ll continue to watch what the ACLU does here and what it costs the district.


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To: Gay State Conservative

The ACLU is a ass...


41 posted on 04/17/2018 12:17:06 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: roadcat

Oh, thank goodness.

I thought someone was going to post that picture of Hillary oogling some woman’s chest (that was showing high beams)


42 posted on 04/17/2018 12:22:23 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Liberty7732
We have so many problems plaguing this country. Headlights are not one of them.

I will say I was distracted when I was in school over the beauty of the female. It's hormones and it was innocent. Of course their is a line that can be crossed for dress code "infractions" and I think common sense should be applied but we have lost that instinct. Our society has changed drastically since the 80's when I went to school. Most of the generated controversies are from idiots in our society who have nothing better to do.

43 posted on 04/17/2018 12:23:56 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: roadcat
"...More than 300 students have joined the group..."

TEACHER: (at gathering of group yelling at hundreds of students) DON'T ALL OF YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO DO? (points at lone girl at gathering) And what are you doing here, trying to pick up a guy?

44 posted on 04/17/2018 12:26:11 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: MeganC

Some “boys” do wear bras claiming they’re girls.

If this little attention craving slut wants to go bra-less because boys don’t wear bras then she should be made to wear a jock strap to PE.


45 posted on 04/17/2018 12:37:11 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: roadcat

https://www.seventeen.com...";

Great line from her FB post in the 17 article:

“you definitely cannot tell I’m not wearing a bra unless you’re looking VERY hard!”

The fact that they are looking very hard is how you know they know you’re not wearing a bra.

(It’s also why they won’t stand up to answer a question.)


46 posted on 04/17/2018 12:43:40 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Liberty7732

This girl is 45 years late about refusing to wear a bra while in school.The girls that I observed in high school routinely did that during the 1970’s.The tops they wore didn’t hide anything either.

That was probably the only good thing about high school at that time.


47 posted on 04/17/2018 1:15:25 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: SkyDancer

I remember that fad. I was maybe 7 or 8. It wasn’t only young women. Women well into their 50s and 100lbs over weight went with the see thru fad as well. By the way, when I say see through I mean Saran Wrap see through. I’d see these 50 somethings in church and I’d just sit there, amazed at the sight.


48 posted on 04/17/2018 2:12:07 PM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Liberty7732

Back in the 70s, braless chicks were pretty common at school. I’m curious as to why that trend was reversed so much that this kind of thing happens.


49 posted on 04/17/2018 2:23:00 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: ClearCase_guy

The eyes are the nipples of the face.


50 posted on 04/17/2018 2:25:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: PGR88

So true.


51 posted on 04/17/2018 2:51:27 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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