A Boy’s Right To Wear A Skirt At School
Posted on January 25, 2006
At first, I didn’t even want to cover this one just because it was so ridiculous. I am not even going to argue on this one, I’m sure it has legal standing….but it is amusing, and the kind of moonbattery that the ACLU is so famous for.
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.Source
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Why not go to the school board for this one? Why involve the ACLU or the court system? Is the local school board not competent enough to solve this problem?
Perhaps either let boys wear shorts or ban skirts. WOW!!! …I think I just solved it!! …Without suing the American taxpayers.
I wonder why the ACLU is in constant litigation with mainstream America, with crap lawsuits like this one?
Then I remember the fact that this is how they make their living, from the taxpayers of America.
I’m so sick of this kind of disregard for our legal system. How stuff like this even makes it to court amazes me.
I suppose next they’ll sue to MAKE our troops overseas watch “Brokeback Mountain”, just to be ‘fair’.
Because we don’t want our troops to have too much testosterone, they might act like men, which would offend the “few” that don’t want to be men.
This probably could all have been avoided if they’d just called it a KILT.
I wonder how the folks who donate money to the ACLU feel about this kind of frivilous use of funds. Nexct they’ll have to take all the kids to court who make fun of him.
Ahhhhhhhh..I feel so much safer now thanks to the American Civil Lunatics Union..wonder if he got permiso to wear matching lip gloss n nail polish too?
“Utili-kilts” are not that unusual. They look like kilts, but are made out of canvas and have pockets. Our neighbor has one, though his wife hates it when we wears it!
Where does it say a lawsuit was filed? I just see where “an agreement was reached.”
So a boy can wear a skirt, but he can’t wear “got Jesus?” when he goes to school. Got it. The ACLU technically didn’t have a leg to stand on. These parents and their children sign off on dress code and behavior policies as they are outlined in students handbook.
Yet another example of the utter and total wastefulness of both the ACLU AND government-run education.
I am a friend of Mike Coviello, and the reason he got the ACLU involved is because the local board WOULD NOT allow him to wear shorts. He had to wear leg braces AFTER October 1st, when the dress code banned shorts for the rest of the winter, so he wore skirts. Why? Because he COULD not come to school otherwise, now it has turned into a form of protest. Don’t criticize unless you know what you are talking about.
Thanks,
Hasbrouck Heights High School student & Friend of Mike Coviello.
I’m not criticizing, to each his own. I just found it amusing.
To Michael and his friends from HH,
It takes guts stand up for what you believe in. I’m glad Michael has the support of great friends and a wonderful family. Good Luck to a great kid!
From missing little details of the story (like they also told him he couldn’t WEAR ‘kilts’, Claudia) to having the whole big picture go right over your heads (it’s a Freedom-of-Expression issue, people), I am awestruck by the devotion of most of the folks at this blog to put saving some tax money over preserving your rights. And don’t give me this crap about ‘I don’t need the right to wear a skirt!’ It’s not about that. Michael Coviello, Hasbrouck Heights, and the ACLU all know that this is about keeping in check the people in so-called power. If Mr. Coviello were to have accepted the school’s attack on his choice of dress, it would represent the continued chipping away of people’s rights and freedoms. Howard Stern, for instance, may not be the most ‘user-friendly’ personality in the entertainment world, but to support the government’s persecution of him is to support the ultimate removal of your own right to free speech. Sometimes you have to accept causes that may seem silly or that have unflattering elements to them because, if you don’t, Big Brother will use those petty reservations of yours as a backdoor to gaining more power to control the way we all live and think. Let me also say that this is not the first time that Hasbrouck Heights has made national news. In the 90s, there was a similar controversy when they punished a student rock band for singing ‘anti-semitic’ lyrics at a school musical event. It would soon be revealed, however, that the extent of the band’s so-called anti-semitic comments involved the invoking of the phrase ‘Oy!’ - a common non-hateful term often found in punk rock; a term so harmless that a major battery manufacturer once proudly featured it in their national television commercials.
Hasbrouck Heights is demonstrating the type of behavior that we see all too often at the government level. Punk bands and cross-dressers got you down? Better start supporting them, because when the freaks are eradicated, the powers that be will only have you left to bully - and don’t think they won’t.
A male high school student can wear a skirt to school after the American Civil Liberties Union reached an…