{"id":429972,"date":"2010-03-15T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-6368727236795314398"},"modified":"2010-03-15T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T11:40:00","slug":"agh-i-agree-with-the-aclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429972","title":{"rendered":"Agh! I Agree With the ACLU?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448664929041800562\"<\/a>The Worcester County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts wants to start a dialogue with school officials considering a proposal for a mandatory school uniform policy.<\/p>\n

The measure, the organization says, violates the rights of students.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the ACLU believes students\u2019 clothing should be influenced by parental guidance and not by educational administrators<\/span>, he said.

\u201cWe should encourage young people to have a certain amount of individuality and creativity,\u201d he said. \u201cStudents only have certain ways to show their individuality \u2014 one way is through their clothing. We know we have to act as part of a group in society, but at the same time, we want to succeed as individuals. We don\u2019t want everyone marching to the same tune.\u201d <\/span> (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I know that in the past most of you have seriously parted ways with me on this topic. <\/p>\n

You tell yourself it evens the playing field. It doesn’t. There will still be kids with Uggs and kids with Faux-uggs…purses, jewelry, backpacks, jackets and cars…it will never be “fair.” <\/p>\n

I am SO opposed to uniforms in public schools<\/span>. And yes, it would be easier AND cheaper for me…but it’s wrong. I would have HATED it. It would have killed my spirit. Demoralized in khakis and a navy polo…the thought makes me shudder. It would have destroyed what little I liked about school. It would have made me just another faceless cog in the machine…a soldier in Kim Jong-Il’s army.<\/p>\n

So, it looks like the ACLU and I are in lockstep with this one…<\/p>\n

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The Worcester County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts wants to start a dialogue with school officials considering a proposal for a mandatory school uniform policy. The measure, the organization says, violates the rights of students. Furthermore, the ACLU believes students\u2019 clothing should be influenced by parental guidance and not by educational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}