The Supreme Court on Monday left in place an appellate ruling barring a North Carolina public charter school from requiring girls to wear skirts to school.
The justices declined without comment to hear an appeal from the Charter Day School in the eastern North Carolina town of Leland. A federal appeals court had ruled that the school’s dress code violated students’ constitutional rights.
School founder Baker Mitchell had said the dress code was intended to promote “chivalry” by the male students and respect for the female students, according to court documents.
The dress code already has been changed to allow girls to wear pants, in line with the lower court ruling.
(AP)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
8 Responses
The Supreme Court decided nothing. They decided the case wasn’t worth taking. It wasn’t clear if the school in question was even a government agency, or what the state law was. With a few exceptions, the Supreme Court can decide to ignore a case that they don’t think presents a clear constitutional issue that needs adjudication.
Note that is it a “public” charter school. This ruling would NOT apply to a private school.
If you ever saw parochial school kids, it would actually be better to have the girls wear pants rather than the incredibly short skirts they wear…
This is very worrying! Where the agh dab on this??
Agudah
Oh a public school? What does charter mean then?
The issue here seems to be that the school in question has both female and male students and only the girls were required to wear skirts.
I wonder what the courts would have said about an all-female school that required all students to wear skirts.
non-issue. nothing to see here. keep it moving, moving…