Comments on: Me Vs. Huntsville City Schools and PTA

By: Sean P

Sean P — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:26:58 +0000

Don’t ever give up C.J.! Make that crazy, Soldier hating Stalinist face the music.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:46:40 +0000

Susan I agree about the way young girls and boys dress, but uniforms won’t solve that. An enforceable dress code will. Teachers and administrators get lazy and think uniforms will keep them from having to enforce standards and that simply isn’t true. A boy can have his pants hanging to his ankles in a uniform just as easily as normal clothes.

I just don’t think it’s the government’s job to tell us how to dress for the most part. That’s a parental problem and a child walking around like a hoochie or hoodlum is a parental failure.

By: Susan O

Susan O — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:26:29 +0000

CJ,

Thanks for the reply. As a mother who fought her own child’s school district (and won), I get where you are coming from. For you children, it is a fight worth fighting.

You started me thinking and I have read the research on school uniforms.

I am still not of the opinion that it is a bad ‘thing.’

It saddens me to see our young girls walking around with nearly everthing exposed and our young boys walking around with shoes untied and pants hanging down below the bottom of the rear end. I want to scream at everyone of them to either cover up or pull up their pants!

Again,I enjoy following your blog.

Good Luck.

Humbly,
Susan O

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:53:00 +0000

Susan, this isn’t a case about school uniforms. It’s a case about parental rights. It started out with uniforms, but that isn’t the basis of my lawsuit.

It started with a principal trying to implement uniforms without the input of parents. At the time, I was ambivalent about them myself. I didn’t have any issues, but I felt strongly that it’s a decision that MUST involve parents considering the cost.

It wasn’t until the principal began attacking me professionally that I started looking into why she was so adamant about going to school uniforms. What I found out drastically changed my opinion on school uniforms in opposition. My research made me fight against them even more fervently.

Studies show that school uniforms do NOT achieve all the things that our educators tell us they do. They don’t improve discipline, grades, or pride. They don’t reduce behavior issues or instances of dress code violations. There are some places it DOES work, but across the spectrum, uniforms have made schools actually worse off.

I have also come to disagree with school uniforms as a matter of free speech. They are meant merely as a way for educators to further control and subjugate children. Parents need to be held accountable for their children and educators need to enforce clothing standards already in place.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:02:05 +0000

I have followed your blog for a year now because you speak up without fear of retribution…and say what others are afraid to say! Thank You.

I am behind you 100% but I have to ask you this question as a mother and also as an employee of a school that requires uniforms.

CJ,

Can you help me to understand what is wrong with uniforms in schools?

Thanks…

Susan O

By: SFC MAC

SFC MAC — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:10:31 +0000

Hey CJ,

Hang in there. We’re behind you 100%

HOOAH!

SFC MAC

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By: Graverober

Graverober — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:54:28 +0000

CJ, Go get em’ and Good Luck!!!

Also, Alabama is a “single-party consent” state, so the School Board and PTA can go F#&@ themselves.

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By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:35:18 +0000

All incumbents, regardless of party, need to fired in the next election cycle. This includes local and state officials who continue to empower the federal government and give away states’ rights. IMHO

By: NY-David

NY-David — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:23:54 +0000

Please don’t think that CJ’s battle against local school board is in any the same as what happened in MA.
I’m involved in our local Parents Association and we create a vibrant group that contributes to the school and community that parents have a voice in.
The MA election set both sides on notice to take nothing for granted.
It helps to read both for what they are.
NY-David