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To: madg; Alouette
"Bad premise... parents don't pay full freight in public school.... that's "taxpayer" territory. (There's a whole heck of a lot of us subsidizing education without much voice.)

More importantly... you would be erecting a hurtle to equal treatment... something specifically disallowed. "

Worse premise. The idea of uniforms, while problematic, can't be invalidated on that basis alone. You're confusing the left's sacred cow of disparate impact with equal treatment under law. The type of confusion, in some quarters, that allows homeless people to defecate on streets with little consequence, because to forbid it might inconvenience them.

See Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice for a thorough treatment of the idea. A very interesting read.

115 posted on 01/28/2003 7:27:11 AM PST by Mr. Bungle
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To: Mr. Bungle
In the city of Detroit there are public schools where the students are required to wear uniforms. These are schools that have had instances of students getting beat up, stabbed or shot for some article of designer clothing.
117 posted on 01/28/2003 8:02:43 AM PST by Alouette
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