NAPA - Mar. 22, 2007 - The Napa Valley Unified School District has a strict dress code for students. No jeans allowed. No pictures, words, symbols or patterns.
And apparently no Tigger, of Winnie the Pooh fame. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court on behalf of 14-year-old Toni Kay Scott, five other students at Redwood Middle School and their parents, challenging a dress code imposed by the school and the school district. According to the suit, Scott's parents asked the school to exempt her from the dress code, and she came to class on the first day of the 2005-06 school year wearing a denim skirt, a brown shirt with a pink border, and long socks with pictures of Tigger. She was escorted to the principal's office by a uniformed police officer and, along with two of her schoolmates, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems. The ACLU says the school and the district are overstepping the limits set by California law. Goosey's Gabbings... Scott was asked what she really thought about the dress code. Her response: "I think it's ridiccorous. All I want is bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, trouncy, fun fun fun fun..."
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