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CurtEastPoint

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5. From their 'pledge...'

Reply to ShazzieB (Original post)

Sun Dec 19, 2021, 08:11 PM

Dec 2021

I pledge to be truthful in all my works,
guarding against the stains of falsehood from
the fascination with experts,
the temptation of vanity,
the comfort of popular opinion and custom,
the ease of equivocation and compromise, and
from over-reliance on rational argument.

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A judge ruled that a charter school's ban on girls wearing pants was unconstitutional. [View all] ShazzieB Dec 2021 OP

This is a fundamentalist private school that still practices this shit. hedda_foil Dec 2021 #1

If it is a charter school as the article states... reACTIONary Dec 2021 #20

1/3 of the people in this country are living in the 50s Walleye Dec 2021 #2

Same here for the most part. we can do it Dec 2021 #17

I'm with you on that. Fortunately I had a job where I didn't have to. Walleye Dec 2021 #18

Me too! Pantyhose even worse than dresses. we can do it Dec 2021 #25

When did you graduate? ShazzieB Dec 2021 #22

You got that right. I graduated in 1967. Caesar Rodney high school Walleye Dec 2021 #24

Forcing girls in school to wear dresses/skirts is just plain stupid... Wounded Bear Dec 2021 #3

Charter schools have all kinds of odd rules & charge students when rules are broken! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #4

From their 'pledge...' CurtEastPoint Dec 2021 #5

So they see "over-reliance on rational argument" that leads to the "stains of falsehood"! ShazzieB Dec 2021 #23

If this is a "private" school and they make the rules shouldn't the people going there know about Srkdqltr Dec 2021 #6

They are a public charter school... Happy Hoosier Dec 2021 #8

OK. It's just that people sending kids there knew the rules beforehand. Srkdqltr Dec 2021 #10

If it were privately funded, I would agree. Happy Hoosier Dec 2021 #11

Exactly, +100 nt reACTIONary Dec 2021 #21

Geezz Deuxcents Dec 2021 #7

I went to Catholic school and we had to wear skirts with our uniforms kimbutgar Dec 2021 #9

Jfc! I remember telling my parents in ?'66 5th grade it was unfair... electric_blue68 Dec 2021 #12

Great news malaise Dec 2021 #13

The school is pushing back because this is about the privatized owners who demand the control ancianita Dec 2021 #14

had to wear dresses in the 70s... public school too... what decade are we in? Demovictory9 Dec 2021 #15

Probably the LAST one. Traildogbob Dec 2021 #16

i fucking hate skirts/dresses. make us easier to rape too. pansypoo53219 Dec 2021 #19