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Scott, an impish brunet with a tiny nostril stud, had violated Redwood's dress code. The code aimed to squelch gangs by requiring students to wear only certain clothes and solid colors. Scott could change her outfit and stay at school, or she could spend the day at home. "I said, 'There's nothing wrong with what I'm wearing. I'm going home,'" recalls Scott, a near straight-A student. "I thought it was kind of ridiculous...
...parents thought the dress code more than just ridiculous: they considered it unconstitutional. In March they and a dozen other Redwood parents and students sued the school and the Napa Valley Unified School District in state court. They claim the students have a fundamental right to express themselves through their attire--to speak, in effect, through the kind of clothes that Scott insisted on wearing that first day of school: a denim skirt and socks depicting Tigger, a character from Winnie-the-Pooh...
...during the mid-1990s gangs roamed local high schools and recruited younger members from places like Redwood Middle School. School officials barred suspected troublemakers from wearing certain colors and flashing signs associated with gangs, and violence dropped. Encouraged, the officials got together with parents to create a schoolwide dress code in 1998: no jeans, no pins, no patterns, no reds and no logos of professional sports teams. "Has it worked? Yes," declares Redwood principal Michael Pearson. "Now there is safety on campus. We're on to something here...
Sally Jensen Dutcher, general counsel for the Napa Valley schools, says the dress-code case will cost the district at least $50,000 in expenses if it goes to trial, and perhaps "hundreds of thousands" if it's appealed. That's a small piece of the district's $118 million budget, but it "bothers me when that money could be better spent educating students," she says...
While some operators believe that Morse code will eventually become an obsolete mode of communication, Allred says that it “won’t go away because it does things that other modes can’t do, and it?...