A caller to a local talk show spent 35,000 dollars
to fight a case where his son was suspended for for six months for wearing cargo pants to school..

A stiff penalty????

The dress code forbid that kind of attire because the pockets could be used to hide weapons...
The laywers the father hired finally got the child into another school in the same district-because
they argued that back packs could be used to transport weapons onto a campus.

The host asked the father why such a stiff penalty for such a small offense....

The father explained that the kid was suspended THREE times, the first time for one day.....
The second time for three days and the final time for six months..

The last two times came about because the FATHER INSISTED THAT HIS SON STAND UP FOR HIS RIGHTS..

I am all for people's rights, freedom of speech and all the other things that make life and the world spin in an orderly direction but.....

Here is the 64,000 dollar question....

Why bother to make any kid obey any school rule?

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Now translate that into an ADULT situation...

At one of our facilities a lenghty and detailed memo was drawn up about a dress code...

No fingernails over a certain length, no nose rings, no multiple piercings on ears..no thong underwear and no colored/printed undies (For all nurses!)....no multihued hair styles and no crop tops..

One gal would show up with a pair of scrubs on and a crop top w/a sweater over it....her reasoning?

I work hard to get a stomach like that!

She wasn't pleased when they asked her to put on a scrub top and tuck it in.
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I remember teasing girls about wearing a bra-I went to a school where we wore uniforms and the best part was the late spring-early summer waterfights.....HUBBA HUBBA...those were the good days.....

I think that they school district should have rules like that in place, It protects the gals and guys from themselves and the school districts from getting sued when kids cannot control themselves..

I am amazed that the parents, who obviously care enough to volunteer and support the daughter in her academic years, are so inflexible and unwilling to support the school and the rules.