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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...
...that worth fighting about in court? Rebecca Santos, whose son Jacob was dress-coded for wearing jeans, sees no choice: "We've been pushed to this extreme. It's time they heard us." Their lawsuit cites California statutes that give students the right to wear "buttons, badges and other insignia" and parents the choice of "opting out" of school-uniform policies, but it is based largely on constitutional protection for speech. Lots of parents have challenged school dress codes on that ground--and have often lost...
...typical ADF case involves a student prevented from singing a religious song, distributing antiabortion pamphlets or, most recently, wearing an anti-gay T shirt at school. In a case decided last month, the organization's lawyers represented Heidi Zamecnik, 17, a senior at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Ill., a suburb southwest of Chicago. Zamecnik wanted to wear a T shirt that said BE HAPPY, NOT GAY on the day after students observed a Day of Silence in support of gay rights. The school said she could wear a shirt opposing homosexuality, but one with a less derogatory message...
...humble, won fans by resisting pressure from fellow Tory Margaret Thatcher to be more partisan while he was Speaker of the House of Commons. Yet more knew him as the man who ushered in the age of TV coverage of the chamber in 1989 and the last Speaker to wear the traditional wig. (It allowed for selective hearing, he said...
...result, the U.S. National Athletic Trainer's Association and the Inter-Association Task Force recently recommended in the Journal of Athletic Training that every school in the country, public and private, have an AED on site. "We all wear life vests in the water, just in case something crazy does happen," says Chuck Kimmel, the President of the National Athletic Trainers' Association. "The AED is the cardiac life vest...