School system won't send surveys to uniform opponents

Well, this is just fucking royal, isn't it?

School bureaucrats seem to place their reliance on pointless rules such as uniforms above all other concerns - so much so that anyone who dares to dissent is written off as some sort of pariah. It happened in my youth, and it happens now.

I've written before how schools that are considering requiring uniforms have sent surveys to parents - and how parents who are thought to be against uniforms suspiciously never receive a survey.

Now the exact same thing is happening in Muncie, Indiana.

As Muncie's so-called public school system is considering a uniform sumptuary law, it claims to have sent a survey to all parents asking if they'd support requiring uniforms.

But that is an outright lie.

A parent who opposes uniforms because she can't afford them never received the survey.

Hell of a way for the schools to rig the survey, isn't it? Then again, it's not like I haven't encountered school systems that lied about everything, so it's hardly surprising.

This follows the educratic disaster that unfurled in nearby Anderson, Indiana. When Anderson's alleged public schools adopted uniforms, a family promptly sued the school district. Outrageously, a right-wing federal judge ordered the family to pay the school's legal bills, totaling some $40,000.

Last I heard, the plaintiffs were standing up against the school system by announcing that they were refusing to pay the schools' legal fees. It's unclear whether the school system was dumb enough to try to collect.

Ironically, Muncie plans to use the Anderson dress code as a template. I guess the Muncie schools enjoy getting sued too.

(Source: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20090326/NEWS01/903260354/1002)