Dress Code: A War Against Originality
Kevin Mahoney
Dress Code: A War Against Originality
As a Catholic School Student with a dress code I can identify with the desire to just throw on some scrubs. But I also know that dress code is one of the many factors that represent us as a school, representing order and unity. Luckily, our school has not taken their dress code standards to new heights.
Earlier this week in San Francisco, Toni Kay Scott, a fourteen year old student, received a dress code violation for having socks that had the cartoon characters Winnie the Pooh and Tigger printed on them. Ms. Scott is not a rookie when it comes to dress code violations, having received twelve dress code violations in the past year. Scott decided that it was time for action, and her and six other students have filed a lawsuit against the school stating that the dress code is “unconstitutionally vague, overbroad and restrictive.” (1). Scott insists her lawsuit is more than just a personal vendetta against the system, but working for all of the students in her school. Ms Scott. Says Scott, “We don’t want anyone to have their rights to freedom of expression limited.” (1)
Dress code violations are often varied in their form of punishment, sometimes just a slap on the wrist, and sometimes much more serious. In 2004, Timothy Gies, a senior at Bay City Central High School in Michigan, was suspended on multiple occasions for wearing shirts and sweat shirts with anarchy symbols, peace signs, upside-down American flags and an anti-war quote from Albert Einstein. Gies eventually took his case to the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. Gies was successful, and after the ACLU intervened, his school discipline was overturned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/us/22pooh.html?ref=education
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/style.rules/
Dress Code: A War Against Originality
As a Catholic School Student with a dress code I can identify with the desire to just throw on some scrubs. But I also know that dress code is one of the many factors that represent us as a school, representing order and unity. Luckily, our school has not taken their dress code standards to new heights.
Earlier this week in San Francisco, Toni Kay Scott, a fourteen year old student, received a dress code violation for having socks that had the cartoon characters Winnie the Pooh and Tigger printed on them. Ms. Scott is not a rookie when it comes to dress code violations, having received twelve dress code violations in the past year. Scott decided that it was time for action, and her and six other students have filed a lawsuit against the school stating that the dress code is “unconstitutionally vague, overbroad and restrictive.” (1). Scott insists her lawsuit is more than just a personal vendetta against the system, but working for all of the students in her school. Ms Scott. Says Scott, “We don’t want anyone to have their rights to freedom of expression limited.” (1)
Dress code violations are often varied in their form of punishment, sometimes just a slap on the wrist, and sometimes much more serious. In 2004, Timothy Gies, a senior at Bay City Central High School in Michigan, was suspended on multiple occasions for wearing shirts and sweat shirts with anarchy symbols, peace signs, upside-down American flags and an anti-war quote from Albert Einstein. Gies eventually took his case to the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. Gies was successful, and after the ACLU intervened, his school discipline was overturned.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/us/22pooh.html?ref=education
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/style.rules/
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