US Supreme Court turns away case on charter school's mandatory skirts for girls

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a North Carolina public charter school's defense of its blocked requirement that girls wear skirts - a student uniform policy that its founder explained is aimed at treating women like "fragile vessels."

Turning away an appeal by Charter Day School Inc, the justices left in place a lower court's decision that the dress code discriminated against students based on gender in violation the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment promise of equal protection under the law.

Charter schools in North Carolina are tuition-free, open to attendance by all, and receive state funding for each student. They are run by private, nonprofit corporations rather than a public school district.

At issue in the case was whether Charter Day School in the southeastern North Carolina town of Leland, which offers a "traditional-values-based education" to students from kindergarten to Grade 8, was subject to the Constitution's equal protection provision when it enforced the skirt policy.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-supreme-court-turns-away-134910848.html

[RandySF]

1. Alito's head must be exploding today.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. I'm shocked the court didn't defer to a misogynistic belief system.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[DFW]

18. Probably a SCOTUS version of Keeping Their Powder Dry

They don't want to be seen making petty decisions like this when they have voting rights to suppress instead.

[orleans]

19. but...

also today:

Supreme Court allows for Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-redistricting/index.html

and while not about voting rights they still turned this out today
Supreme Court lets lawsuits over team doctor’s sexual abuse proceed against Ohio State
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ohio-state-abuse-richard-strauss-57b547932ffeaa015c6f85a994276e32

[NYC Liberal]

22. I don't know why they'd care. It's not like they're up for election,

and removing them would require Republicans in the House to impeach and 67 Senators to convict, which is never ever going to happen.

[wnylib]

31. Maybe they're nervous about all the revelations

of misconduct by justices and the call for external ethics regulations. No, they can't be fired, but could they be fined for ethics violations?

Also, the misconduct of the justices feeds into calls for expansion of the court, which would reduce the power of the RW justices.

[NYC Liberal]

34. That's possible. After all, FDR's plan to expand the court failed

but it supposedly scared them enough that they stopped blocking so much of the New Deal and other of his programs.

[keopeli]

3. unbelievable. Not that these idiots are doing them. But that no one put a stop to it.

How the state can pay for education but have ZERO input on what goes on there.

I bet that, in another decade, we'll start hearing about all of the sexual abuse, hazing, discrimination, etc. in testimony from all the kids that are experiencing this trauma in the name of god.

[LiberalFighter]

17. When there are complaints about low school grades

[groundloop]

23. Their "grades" will be fine, but look for abysmal performance on SAT, ACT, etc.

The head of the school will pressure teachers to give good grades to keep parents happy at the expense of actual learning and critical thinking skills.

[keopeli]

32. Good logical follow-through! Exactly correct!

[RKP5637]

4. Excellent! n/t

[RAB910]

5. Yet tax dollars are flowing to the asshole who thinks women are "fragile vessels" and they

are still corrupting young minds

[raging moderate]

10. They think women are fragile vessels but should be punished more.

They like to make girls wear skirts kept in perfect position and condition, so winter cold and various pests can access their bodies more easily, and so it is more difficult to do anything physically active.

[maxsolomon]

7. Explain to me again why Charters are replacing Public Schools?

They all seem like stealth Religious/Political indoctrination paid for by Taxpayers.

[pandr32]

9. 100% this.

[okaawhatever]

27. Republican supermajority. They're ruining the state. nt

[mopinko]

41. not all. but too many.

we actually do them right in illinois. no for profits, no religions.
there are many great 1s here in chi. an award winning stem school is around the corner from me.
my son worked in a u of c charter in bronzeville. local school, took all comers. great track record.
the teacher’s union has 1, there are arts and science schools. there’s even 1 called namaste, where they teach non-violence and meditation.

public schools should get whatever they need. but 1 size never did fit all, and the local public school is not an ‘appropriate education’ for a lot of kids.
this tactic works cuz a whooooole lot of parents dont love their local school.

[iluvtennis]

8. My daughters attended a public charter school and had to wear uniforms.

They just had to have green and beige. “Bottoms “could be shorts, skirts, skorts, jumpers, pants as long as it was beige. Tops had to be green. There was nothing in the policy about what clothing was masculine vs feminine.

[JT45242]

11. Common to be school colors or similar . there is research supporting uniforms that are not gendered

Taught summer school in a district with a similar policy. Beige or green bottoms (could be pants, skirts, etc) and tops were either white or green (school colors). They offered some inexpensuve golf type shirts to parents and some businesses sponnsored uniform scholarships.

If everyone wears basically the same thing, it cuts down on some of the economic issues when you have a district with both high poverty and a high wealth section.

Honestly, wish where I taught most of my career was like that. Of course, none of the public schools care if girls wear pants, skirts, dresses, etc as long as they color compliant.

[iluvtennis]

25. Yes, the uniforms prevented clothes competition stuff and saved us parents LOTS of $$.

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[ExWhoDoesntCare]

37. Take it from someone who attended schools with

Mandated uniforms: The kids still have competition over their attire. It only transfers to accessories like backpacks and shoes in the primary schools. Handbags/wallets and jewelry get added in the secondary level. Even makeup falls prey to class distinction.

My nephew's wife attended an upscale boarding school. Back then, you could accessorize those old flip cellphones with specialty straps or chains hanging from them. I didn't even know Dior had made a platinum cellphone strap until she told me about it, and I bet you didn't know that, either. I can assure you, though, that she knew it, because her classmates turned even something as mundane as a cellphone bauble into a status symbol.

[iluvtennis]

40. Wow 😮. n/t

[orleans]

20. i wonder if boys would have been allowed to wear the jumpers, skorts, or skirts nt

[iluvtennis]

26. The policy was mute on it, so if they wanted to, they could. And I could see

the principal/director of our small school supporting it.

[Bev54]

12. We all know the republicans like those girls in little pleated skirts.

[James48]

13. Well, humans in general are fragile vessels.

Ever see one implode at 12,000 feet depth?

[Scalded Nun]

14. Charter schools. Part of the 'destroy public education system' in America

[Initech]

30. Fuck charter schools!

[FakeNoose]

15. They should try to dictate mandatory uniforms to the home-schooled children

The Supremes might have agreed to that one.

[Jimvanhise]

16. THEY MISSED A CHANCE

They could have just made the dress code uniform. All students wear pants although it would have been fun if they tried to screw with their critics and have all students wear dresses, no matter their gender.

[TygrBright]

21. This fragile vessel would like to meet that bunghole and kick his scrote up between his ears. n/t

[2live is 2fly]

29. I'll drink to that, I bet a lot of others would add to the consensus.

[twodogsbarking]

24. And why would you send your children there?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

38. Because the parents are racists

Who don't want their kids associating with 'those' people.

[2live is 2fly]

28. I remember reading one of the biographies about FDR's admin and a conservative SCOTUS overturned

several programs that were a part of his National Recovery Act/New Deal (NRA). President Roosevelt, began discussing expanding the number of SCOTUS Justices. Some think, he purposely started the rumor, that he had ulterior motives (like saving his new Social Security bill)! So how serious was FDR at the time about SCOTUS expansion, even talking about increasing the court to a total 16? (OY)? Suppose that can always be left open for debate.

Point being, I wonder if this isn't more appeasment? Supreme Court throwing us a bone, attempting to placate. Especially Chief Justice Roberts, surprisingly moderate rulings (now & then anyway).

[WestMichRad]

33. So they skirted the issue, eh?

… I’ll let myself out now…

[canetoad]

35. Anyone remember

The fundy mob who wanted to create their own colony in NC, fifteen or so years ago?

They had an online forum for potential inmates that gave me much merriment. The biggest discussion they had was whether they would allow women to wear trousers/pants or not.

Not surprisingly, it never eventuated.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

39. I thought it was South Carolina

But, yeah, I remember them.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

36. I stopped going to gym all together in middle and

High school because of the stupid uniforms girls were forced to wear. It was a polyester 1 piece monstrosity with a zipper in front. Even in the largest size would rip bit by bit when I crammed into the shoulders.It gave me a camel toe from hell and felt like I was being cut in two.Sitting down was painful.I sweated like crazy in it. So I wore shorts and a t shirt in the same colors as the boys uniform.

They said I had to wear that shitty girls uniform.
I so wanted to wear the comfortable cotton t shirt and loose fitting shorts the boys had.

I showed them the largest size girl uniform did not fit me. I asked to wear a boys uniform.
They said no so I hooked gym class all through middle and high school.Spent every day in detention during gym.

I was not going to stand being humiliated and feel vulnerable wearing that awful uniform. After being assaulted sexually by boys and stared at by the womens gym teacher because of that uniform I vowed to never wore that shit again. Fuck gym class. I hated gym.Glad I missed it.

Gender enforced dress codes are bullshit can be exploiting of girls,show stuff they'd rather not show everybody.

Ever notice how much better designed and the better fabrics and better pockets mens clothes are made with? I love wearing mens clothes that fit,are comfy and align with my real gender.

Glad I am a out transguy in more ways everyday.