School system ignores opt-out law (sigh)

You probably didn't know this, but I'm against school uniforms. I bet that never in your foggiest dreams did you suspect that! I'm 35, and I hate it more now than I did when I was 13.

Much as a public school system in Massachusetts implemented mandatory uniforms despite it being against state law, one in California is now doing something quite similar.

In Needles, California, the so-called public school system has implemented a mandatory uniform policy - requiring shirts of a specific style and color that feature the school logo. Parents are required to buy the uniforms from a specific vendor.

A big problem with that: California law says public schools must allow students to opt out of uniform requirements. You don't even have to give a reason to opt out. Out you simply opt. This issue has long been settled in that state, following the Long Beach case. (That's not to mention the fact that Tinker v. Des Moines declared uniforms in public schools unconstitutional nationwide.)

So the Needles school district decreed that you can opt out - but only by wearing uniforms without the logo.

Are they fucking serious?

Is that really what the school system calls complying with state law?

I'm not even linking to the Mohave Daily News article about this event, because it chooses to parrot discredited U.S. Department of Education propaganda that encourages uniforms. Much as with the new Rockefeller drug laws, dissenting views seem to be no longer tolerated in any newspaper marketed in afflicted areas. The truth is never to be told.

And so, another Nazi school district lands on the lawsuit block.