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« on: January 25, 2006, 11:39:50 AM »

The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 25, 2006; 9:57 AM

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.
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2006, 11:40:26 AM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2006, 11:41:57 AM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I'm beginning to agree with you.  Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2006, 11:43:20 AM »

Funny.
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2006, 11:46:12 AM »

Should just get rid of the dress code and allow them to wear shorts. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2006, 11:47:30 AM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I'm beginning to agree with you.  Tongue

The children in our school district are required to wear uniforms up until highschool. Its a wonderful idea and I'm sure I'll get a wonderful response from Bandit.
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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2006, 11:47:59 AM »

Should just get rid of the dress code and allow them to wear shorts. Roll Eyes

Agreed. This is a public school, isn't it?
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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2006, 12:09:53 PM »

Why on earth should skirts be only for females?
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« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2006, 12:15:40 PM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

But the First Amendment should easily solve problems like school uniforms.
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2006, 12:16:54 PM »

While a kilt looks great on a man, im not quite sure about a skirt Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2006, 12:18:09 PM »

The children in our school district are required to wear uniforms up until highschool.

We'll see what the First Amendment has to say about that once the lawsuits start coming.
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2006, 12:23:52 PM »



Weak.  The student does not have implicit rights in regards to the dress code (hence the fact that there is a code to begin with).  The ACLU could not possibly show how requiring boys to wear pants during the fall and winter months impairs him mentally or emotionally.

Of course, a uniformed code requiring girls to wear pants would have resolved this too.
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2006, 01:06:43 PM »

Good.

And school uniforms are an evil evil terrible idea.
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« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2006, 01:10:18 PM »

While a kilt looks great on a man, im not quite sure about a skirt Smiley

I don't see much of a difference.
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« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2006, 01:19:27 PM »

While a kilt looks great on a man, im not quite sure about a skirt Smiley

I don't see much of a difference.

Come on Roll Eyes. Kilts look like they are made for men. The design looks masculine. I'd hardly say frocks or dresses are

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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2006, 01:27:15 PM »

While a kilt looks great on a man, im not quite sure about a skirt Smiley

I don't see much of a difference.

Come on Roll Eyes. Kilts look like they are made for men. The design looks masculine. I'd hardly say frocks or dresses are

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I would bet that most men don't wear kilts.

I'm sure most don't not as part of everyday dress anyway. I don't recall ever seeing many walking down Princes Street in Edinburgh when I was last there. There may be a higher frequency of kilt-wearing in the Highlands. I don't know I've never been north of Stirling

Afleitch will know better Smiley

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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2006, 03:41:28 PM »


Fetching young lad, isn't he.


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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2006, 03:45:21 PM »



ACK!  Is that him?  hahaha . . . if he's gonna wear a skirt, he needs to shave his legs.  HAHAHA
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2006, 03:56:38 PM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I agree, but then you'd have the ACLU calling out massive discrimination against "freedom of expression."
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« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2006, 04:01:39 PM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I agree, but then you'd have the ACLU calling out massive discrimination against "freedom of expression."

That's where the state should step in and remind the ACLU that the students are in a controlled environment and "expression" is not a right the students have.  Hence the reason why there are already existing dress and conduct codes.
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« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2006, 04:48:22 PM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I'm beginning to agree with you.  Tongue

The children in our school district are required to wear uniforms up until highschool. Its a wonderful idea and I'm sure I'll get a wonderful response from Bandit.

The school uniform requirement should be extended throughout the country from elementary school on up to colleges and universities, like it was originally before Vietnam, with much the same dress code.
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« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2006, 05:21:22 PM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I'm beginning to agree with you.  Tongue

The children in our school district are required to wear uniforms up until highschool. Its a wonderful idea and I'm sure I'll get a wonderful response from Bandit.

The school uniform requirement should be extended throughout the country from elementary school on up to colleges and universities, like it was originally before Vietnam, with much the same dress code.

Colleges and universities?  You are a nuttly little fascist!  You want to dress up 20 year olds in some costume?  What's the point?  Why not have a dress code for everyone?

But perhaps you were kidding.
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« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2006, 05:35:33 PM »

I think this is a true victory, not only against the dress code, but for freedom of speech. Good for him!
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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2006, 05:39:17 PM »

School uniforms would easily solve problems like this.

I'm beginning to agree with you.  Tongue

The children in our school district are required to wear uniforms up until highschool. Its a wonderful idea and I'm sure I'll get a wonderful response from Bandit.

The school uniform requirement should be extended throughout the country from elementary school on up to colleges and universities, like it was originally before Vietnam, with much the same dress code.

Colleges and universities?  You are a nuttly little fascist!  You want to dress up 20 year olds in some costume?  What's the point?  Why not have a dress code for everyone?

But perhaps you were kidding.

No, I am not kidding -I am perfectly sincere and deadly serious...every bit as much as you claim you are:

1. It would better enable law enforcement to battle gang violence by telling apart who belongs to the school and who doesn't.

2.  Our public schools and colleges and universities are intended as places of learning -not as fashion shows or whore-houses where old creeps like yourself can enjoy the sight of young girls in compromising clothing.  These girls are there to learn, not as surrogate whores ready to service your every perverse desire. 

3. As someone has already said, these institutions are controlled environments -free expression is not their primary mission, and if it is deemed to interfere with the ability of students to learn, then clearly the latter should take precedence over the former. 
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« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2006, 06:22:50 PM »

Good.

And school uniforms are an evil evil terrible idea.
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