Can wearing your favorite socks to school lead you to court? Of course, if this girl is to be believed! A seventh-class-kid possibly will end up in court for togging up in Winnie the Pooh socks to school.
According to the grapevine, Toni Kay Scott was sent to an in-school suspension plan called Students With Attitude Problems last year. The 14-year-old, allegedly, violated a dress code, says a lawsuit against the Napa Valley Unified School District and Redwood Middle School.
The girl’s socks were engraved with the Tigger character from Winnie the Pooh cartoon show. She was in a denim skirt and a brown shirt with a pink border that day. But according to the school’s rules, students should don solid colors in blue, white, green, yellow, khaki, gray, brown and black. And allowable textiles are cotton twill, corduroy and chino. Denim is a big no-no.
Toni’s family filed a lawsuit in Napa County Superior Court by The American Civil Liberties Union and a law firm, which states that the dress code is exceedingly imprecise and too restrictive.
The teenager expressed herself:
We should be given freedom to display one and all who we are and have a way to express ourselves.
The rules encroach upon the California Education Code, said claimant’s lawyer Sharon O’Grady.
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