And some people wonder why so many people think the ACLU has gone off the deep end.
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Male Student Wins Fight to Wear Skirt to School Wednesday, January 25, 2006
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J."”A male high school student can wear a skirt to school after the American Civil Liberties Union reached an agreement with school officials.
The ACLU announced the deal Tuesday. It will allow a Hasbrouck Heights School senior to wear a skirt to protest the school's no-shorts policy.
The district's dress code bans shorts between Oct. 1 and April 15, but allows skirts, a policy 17-year-old Michael Coviello believes is discriminatory.
"I'm happy to be able to wear skirts again to bring attention to the fact that the ban on shorts doesn't make sense," Coviello said in a statement.
The Hasbrouck Heights superintendent, Joseph C. Luongo, did not return telephone messages left Tuesday seeking comment.
Coviello first wore a costume-style dress but high school officials told him to go home and change. The district's superintendent then advised the Coviello to purchase everyday dresses and skirts at a retail store, which Coviello did, the ACLU said.
But after a few days, he was sent home with a note from his principal saying if he wore a dress, kilt or skirt, he could no longer attend school.
When I was a sophomore, some seniors did the exact same thing for the exact same reason. They were sent home, and everyone else thought they were cool!
IS this the same case as the kid who wore a kilt, not a skirt,to school?
I wouldn't have a problem with a kilt as long as he has some boxers on underneath. But then again, if the school has banned all forms of clothes that show leg, then that's the rule.
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Dress codes are becoming more and more popular and more and more required. Go to the local high school and check out the clothes on some folks, very distracting around teenagers. Dress codes in our local schools don't ban shorts, but do restrict the length going down and up, and restrict the length coming down of shirts.
The ACLU says that it is an established principle that guns may be regulated, hence they have no advocacy position on second amendment rights. It seems that it is an established principle that clothing worn to schools can be regulated -- I wonder why the ACLU feels the need to get involved in this case but not in the case of the second amendment? The city of San Francisco banning possession of handguns would seem a more direct threat to a black letter civil right than banning males from wearing skirts in a public school system.
The ACLU is hypocritical and unprincipled in their abandonment of the second amendment. I have no respect for them.
Bah, if the kid wants to be a little sweetheart, so be it. I would tend to trust the judgement of school administrations more if they actually had any success educating our nation's children. Failing that miserably for decades,the only thing they seem capable ofat the moment is over-regulating their students.
For the record, I wore a black skirt with black & white tights to school once in 11th grade. I was playing the part pf a psychotic woman in a German class play, but I figured what the hey, why not wear it throughout the day? Mrs. Six really seemed to think it looked sexy.
ACLU at it Again--Defending Male Skirts
