School district defies uniform ban

You'd think with summer starting, you'd see less of this bullshit, but who was I kidding?

Repeat after me: Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 71, Section 83 reads, "School officials shall not abridge the rights of students as to personal dress and appearance except if such officials determine that such personal dress and appearance violate reasonable standards of health, safety and cleanliness."

Got that?

In Massachusetts, that is the law. Unless you think wearing normal clothes in a public school defies "reasonable standards of health, safety and cleanliness", the law is very clear: NO UNIFORMS IN MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC SCHOOLS! End of story.

But in the city of Springfield, the school system is just ignoring this safeguard outright by making uniforms mandatory starting this fall.

Didn't the school district bother to check the law first? As shitty as the schools in northern Kentucky are, at least they seem to have damn good attorneys. If there's one thing schools in my area do well, it's get out of a legal bind. But in Springfield, Massachusetts, they must not have a single damn lawyer. I've been to Massachusetts only twice in my whole life, yet I know the Bay State's laws better than that school system does.

Mark my words: The Springfield schools are going to get sued. You can't run a school system with that many students in a state that specifically bans uniforms and expect to be able to get away with this.

I'm not even linking to the WSHM-LP story about the new uniform policy, but it's just so incredibly biased.