Boy Wins Fight For Right To Wear Skirt To School

[matcom]

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HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- New Jersey high school senior Michael Coviello will get to wear skirts to school, as long as they are an acceptable length.

Michael, 17, started wearing skirts as a protest against the Hasbrouck Heights School District dress code. The district's dress code bans shorts between Oct. 1 and April 15, but allows skirts, a policy Coviello believes is discriminatory.

At first, Coviello wore a costume-style dress over the objection of high school officials.

The ACLU said the district's superintendent then advised the Coviello to purchase every-day dresses and skirts at a retail store, which Coviello did.

But administrators didn't find anything funny in his challenge to the rule. After a few days, the student was sent home with a note from his principal saying if he wore a dress, kilt or skirt, he could no longer attend school.

Michael contends the no-shorts policy is discriminatory because girls are allowed to show their legs while wearing skirts.

The American Civil Liberties Union came to Michael's defense. The school district isn't relaxing the no-shorts rule, but the ACLU said Michael can now wear a skirt if he wants.

http://www.wftv.com/education/6424928/detail.html

[underpants]

1. I think they should do this on the PGA

Really I do.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. My daughter, and the girls in her school, are sort of doing a reverse

protest in their school. On Wednesday (mass day..private school, so they don't have much of a shot here) girls have to wear skirts, while the boys wear the traditional uniform that both genders wear the rest of the week. I told her to have at it, but to realize that she is not in a public school and that this school can basically do as it pleases...dress code wise.

[Strong Atheist]

3. Sounds good to me. nt.