School buys prison jumpsuits to defend "conservative values"

How hypocritical is Gonzales High School, a public school in Gonzales, Texas?

I heard vague rumblings about this story last year, but only now is it moving to the frontburner (perhaps because of increasing lawsuit warnings).

To punish students who violate the school's unconstitutional uniform policy, the school has purchased an untold quantity of blue prison jumpsuits - which violators will be required to wear.

Press reports say the jumpsuits were instituted as "a way to keep the district's conservative values intact."

So now schools are arbiters of politics too? Like we didn't know that already.

This story proves school officials lie when they say the dress code is to reduce distractions. If anything would be distracting, it would be the sad spectacle of the jumpsuits. The entire purpose of the policy is to humiliate.

A couple years ago, I noticed a Catholic school in my area had a similar policy in its handbook to humiliate students, and I seriously considered reporting school officials to police for child abuse. But many local officials think children are property, not people, so it wouldn't have done any good. (This is also a main reason local authorities haven't been serious about investigating molestation cases.)

When the jumpsuit policy in Gonzales was enacted, some students threatened to violate the dress code just so they'd have to wear the jumpsuits - thus making the policy backfire on the school.

On the other hand, why would prison jumpsuits seem unsuitable for schools, considering our schools today are nothing short of prisons? A lot of schools beat you if you talk at lunch, so what's the diff?

(Source: http://www.clickorlando.com/education/17035594/detail.html)