Male student wins fight to wear skirt

[RedEarth]

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. --A male high school student can wear a skirt to school after the American Civil Liberties Union reached an agreement with school officials. The ACLU announced the deal Tuesday. It will allow a Hasbrouck Heights School senior to wear a skirt to protest the school's no-shorts policy.

The district's dress code bans shorts between Oct. 1 and April 15, but allows skirts, a policy 17-year-old Michael Coviello believes is discriminatory. "I'm happy to be able to wear skirts again to bring attention to the fact that the ban on shorts doesn't make sense," Coviello said in a statement.

The Hasbrouck Heights superintendent, Joseph C. Luongo, did not return telephone messages left Tuesday seeking comment.

Coviello first wore a costume-style dress but high school officials told him to go home and change. The district's superintendent then advised the Coviello to purchase everyday dresses and skirts at a retail store, which Coviello did, the ACLU said.

But after a few days, he was sent home with a note from his principal saying if he wore a dress, kilt or skirt, he could no longer attend school.


http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/01/25/male_student_wins_fight_to_wear_skirt?mode=PF

[ixion]

1. as an ardent wearer of shorts, allow me to offer a standing ovation

to a fellow shorts guy! Stop discriminating against shorts wearers! :patriot:



:applause: :woohoo: :applause:

[xchrom]

2. lol -- go get some long pants!

[ixion]

7. never

:evilgrin:

[Canuckistanian]

4. A guy at my work wears shorts every day - until it snows.

He lasted until December this year.

He usually goes back to shorts in March.

[xchrom]

5. i get too cold.

when i go to the gym in the winter -- i am covered head to toe -- and i'm in nothern california.
yeah i know -- but it's cold to me.

[ixion]

9. I'm good down to about 25 or so...

fortunately, I live in Florida, so I don't see that temp too often. :-)

[xchrom]

3. people go nuts with their dress codes, don't they?

if they wanna wear shorts -- who cares?

[jseankil]

11. yea it's weird isn't it?

It's like they have a power trip with this type of thing. If they wanted to say the flesh factor distracts others then I might say ok whatever sure but since they allow skirts its just confusing.

[ixion]

14. exactly.

I don't see what all the fuss is about.

[One_Life_To_Give]

6. Who needs shorts

When you can wear a skirt?






Just asking }(

[Atmashine]

8. I'm torn-

From being able to wear whatever you want to school or to just get uniforms for everyone and shut everyone up.

[Bridget Burke]

23. Uniforms can be OK if they begin in Grade 1.

Some of our Public Schools require uniforms & they seem to work out.

But imposing uniforms on older kids could be trouble. Just establish some Minimal Decency Rules & concentrate on the teaching. I've seen male skirts, designed like kilts in plainer cloth, that looked fine.

Back in my day, girls always wore dresses or skirts & blouses. With bras, slips, panty girdles & stockings underneath. Gah!!!

[undergroundpanther]

10. Good for Him

Or she/he!!

[Ezlivin]

12. He doesn't have to worry about upskirt photographers, either

Unless he spills out of his thong.

[gauguin57]

13. Here's to men in skirts!

Gerard Butler (Phantom of Opera from film) and Ewan McGregor at a Burns Night charity event.

[pschoeb]

15. OT I've never seen Ewan wearing glasses and a kilt, totally HOT!

nt

[enlightenment]

18. Those aren't skirts

Kilts are male garb -- women, traditionally (though not these days) would never wear the kilt, they'd wear a skirt with a waistband and seams.
Just saying!
;-)

[Book Lover]

21. And the fact that the school board has banned kilt wearing as

well torques me off. A man in a kilt is better dressed than anyone, staff or student, wearing jeans.

[enlightenment]

25. Neatly worn, I think so too --

I really don't care for the look with socks and sandals (unless we're talking nicely shaped legs) . . .

[Tight_rope]

16. Power to the People!...n/t

[0007]

17. What about a little extra padding here and there?

[LostinVA]

19. A kilt is NOT a skirt -- it's a man's garment

I have Scots in my family who get driven crazy by this ignorance.

[happyslug]

24. And the product of the 18th Century

Where a Industrialist had his employees where what we now all a kilt in place of the Long Traditional Kilt of the Highlands (Which contained over 12 yards of Material and could be used as a blanket at night in the field).

For more on the Kilt, Including the "Great Kilt" and the modern short Kilt see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt

http://albanach.org/kilt.html

[Initech]

20. All right, power to the people!

I wish my work would let me wear shorts!

[Megahurtz]

22. Yeah, that's a REALLY LAME rule. n/t

[nofoil]

26. A Shame

It is a shame that the ACLU took this one up, as it can only hurt its reputation in a time that we really, really need them in the fight to save our democracy. Every few months, I am tempted to send them $$$, and then something like this comes up. An embarrassment.

[LisaL]

27. But is he going to shave his legs?