Boston schools violate law (sigh)

I guess laws really are just "damn pieces of paper" (to use Bush's phrase), right?

Massachusetts law says public schools may not "abridge the rights of students as to personal dress and appearance." That is the law. L-A-W! Law! End of story.

Now about half of public schools in Boston have decided to do exactly that by adopting mandatory uniforms. This comes on the heels of a similarly illegal districtwide policy in Springfield.

I'm not linking to the article in the right-wing Boston Herald about it, because it's so one-sided. For the record, the parents or the students did not "opt" for uniforms as the article claims. The schools chose the policy with input only from a select few parents. So the Herald was downright wrong.

It still begs asking why there is no legal action against the schools when such a large number of families is affected and when state law so explicitly outlaws mandatory uniforms. I wonder if it isn't being suppressed. If schools are willing to illegally suppress free expression, they'd surely be Nazi enough to bully folks into not filing lawsuits.