A: when they’re the wrong principles and the money could be spent educating students instead.<\/p>\n
USA Today\/Ganette is reporting that The Easton, PA school district is appealing a federal appeals court decision that allowed two girls to wear bracelets that say, \u201cI (heart) Boobies”.\u00a0 The bracelets are part of a breast cancer awareness campaign.\u00a0 Easton’s argument is that the bracelets are lewd.<\/p>\n
I grew up in a town that had a track record of going to the Supreme Court for stupid reasons.\u00a0 The first case involved trying to claim that English as a Second Language Teachers weren’t actually teachers, despite their qualifications and the fact that they were in fact teaching.\u00a0 They lost.\u00a0 In a separate case, they went to the Supreme Court over having searched a girl’s locker and having had her arrested.\u00a0 The Court dismissed the notion that they were entitled to act in loca parentis, under the theory that few parents would have their children arrested.\u00a0 Both of these cases cost the tax payers millions of dollars.<\/p>\n
Easton, PA is not a rich town.\u00a0 The district does okay with what they have (about the middle of the pack in PA).\u00a0 Still, their money is being wasted by a case of very questionable merit, where even a positive result will not help a single student.\u00a0 So why sue?\u00a0 Because the superintendent wanted to be the ultimate source of authority in his district for what is and is not appropriate for students to wear.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 He’s a public servant, applying the rules of our society.\u00a0 He doesn’t get the final say.\u00a0 And he’s wasting a lot of money finding out.\u00a0 Oh and their lawyer story claims that the appeal will cost $2,000-$3,000.\u00a0 Horse hockey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A: when they’re the wrong principles and the money could be spent educating students instead. USA Today\/Ganette is reporting that The Easton, PA school district is appealing a federal appeals court decision that allowed two girls to wear bracelets that say, \u201cI (heart) Boobies”.\u00a0 The bracelets are part of a breast cancer awareness campaign.\u00a0 Easton’s … Continue reading “Q: When do principles cost too much?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}