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.
You're totally right, MODU. The whole 'freedom of expression' thing with respect to school is a red herring. School is and has to be a controlled environment if any learning is to take place.
Hah, a typical conservative view of 'education' - an indoctrination in conformity. No one is questioning the need for order - such as students remaining in their seats, listening to the teacher etc., but how does a boy wearing a dress effect that?
An important part of education is skepticism - questioning authority - and what most right wingers envision is quite the opposite. I would agree this is an appropriate conditioning for slaves, but I thought the pretense was that American citizens were 'free'?
