Mississippi school district is afraid of reason

The Tea Party is in full loom-and-doom mode in Lumberton, Mississippi, and it shows.

There's hardly any right-wing policy that the Lumberton School District doesn't display in plain sight. It has an unconstitutional uniform policy, it requires students in extracurricular activities to take a drug test, and it still employs paddling as a disciplinary measure.

Also - shockingly enough - the school district discriminates against students who are pregnant. The student handbook scolds, "Anticipated absences due to pregnancy should be made up prior to the due date in order to avoid exceeding the maximum number of absences and therefore forfeiting school credit."

Threatening to take away school credit because a student is pregnant? This has to be the only public school district in America in the past 20 years that I know of with such a policy. Students who have excused absences for other reasons aren't treated this shabbily.

Lawsuit time.