14-year-old Toni Kay Scott, five other students at Redwood Middle School and their parents, challenging a dress code imposed by the school and the The code calls for clothes to be entirely solid colors: blue, white, green, yellow, khaki, gray, brown or black. The only fabrics permitted are cotton twill, chino or corduroy. No jeans allowed.
No pictures, words, symbols or patterns. And According to the suit, after her parents had asked the school to exempt her from the dress code, Toni Kay came to class on the first day of the 2005-06 school year wearing a denim skirt, a brown shirt with a pink border, and long socks with pictures of Tigger, the Winnie-the-Pooh officer and, along with two of her schoolmates, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems, the suit said. anyone,'' Toni Kay, described in the suit as an honor-roll student, said in a statement through her lawyers.
"We should be able to show everyone who we are and have a way to express ourselves, as long as we aren't showing off things that shouldn't be shown off at school.'' In the suit filed Monday in Superior Court, the ACLU said the school and the district are overstepping the limits set by California law, which reasons, and permits parents to exempt their children from any requirements to wear uniforms. The suit also claimed violations of freedom of shoe, the suit said.
Her younger sister, Sydni Scott, a sixth-grader, was The girls' mother, Donnell Scott, said it was fine for a school to ban midriffs and miniskirts. "School is a place to learn,'' she said. "But anything above that should be my call as a parent.
Pink socks and two-tones are not a crime.
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