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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 327673" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Let me start off with saying it wouldn't bother me at all to have a male student in my class with a ponytail. At my school, there are no restrictions on hair color, style, or length.</p><p></p><p>However . . .</p><p></p><p>I agree with Trinity and Everywoman. This seems to be a case of "my child doesn't have to follow the rules." What's next? What if they want their child to wear a t-shirt that promotes a particular religious value such as being anti-gay? What would that do to the gay children in the school?</p><p></p><p>In case you think I am taking this to an extreme . . . please check out the list of court cases on the following website. Schools have had to fight challenges to the dress code in the name of "free speech" for students wearing Hitler Youth shirts, Anti-gay sentiments, Confederate Flag shirts, and gang related symbols. Things that seem innocuous as wearing the number 14 on a belt buckle can be a gang related symbol.</p><p></p><p>So the problem becomes at what point does one child's freedom of speech become an infringement on another child's rights? And, if dress codes are necessary, who do you make exceptions for? Who decides who gets the exceptions? It becomes a slippery slope.</p><p></p><p>by the way, I learned in my Teachers and the Law class during my Ed.S program that there has never been a definitive Supreme Court ruling when it comes to schools and dress codes so it has been pretty much left up to the district and circuit courts. Interestingly, because of this, there are different rules for different parts of the country so depending on where you live, dress codes may be much stricter than they are for others on the board.</p><p></p><p>This certainly in an interesting thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 327673, member: 1967"] Let me start off with saying it wouldn't bother me at all to have a male student in my class with a ponytail. At my school, there are no restrictions on hair color, style, or length. However . . . I agree with Trinity and Everywoman. This seems to be a case of "my child doesn't have to follow the rules." What's next? What if they want their child to wear a t-shirt that promotes a particular religious value such as being anti-gay? What would that do to the gay children in the school? In case you think I am taking this to an extreme . . . please check out the list of court cases on the following website. Schools have had to fight challenges to the dress code in the name of "free speech" for students wearing Hitler Youth shirts, Anti-gay sentiments, Confederate Flag shirts, and gang related symbols. Things that seem innocuous as wearing the number 14 on a belt buckle can be a gang related symbol. So the problem becomes at what point does one child's freedom of speech become an infringement on another child's rights? And, if dress codes are necessary, who do you make exceptions for? Who decides who gets the exceptions? It becomes a slippery slope. by the way, I learned in my Teachers and the Law class during my Ed.S program that there has never been a definitive Supreme Court ruling when it comes to schools and dress codes so it has been pretty much left up to the district and circuit courts. Interestingly, because of this, there are different rules for different parts of the country so depending on where you live, dress codes may be much stricter than they are for others on the board. This certainly in an interesting thread. [/QUOTE]
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