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Posted on 04/17/2018 11:07:22 AM PDT by Liberty7732
The big “Bracott” bra boycott was a big dud — at least as far as student participation in the supposed civil rights violation of the Florida high school girl who had her nipples X’d out with bandages because her bra-less attire was…distracting other students in class.
But the district and all Florida schools may have a bigger problem as the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is looking at suing the district, which is already struggling to find money to put deputies in every school after the Parkland shootings.
The bra boycott was organized by the girl, her gender-centric victimhood mom and a few other activist-oriented students protesting school administrators holding boys and girls to different standards in the school’s dress code. The “protest” urged all the girls to go bra-free in solidarity against…the patriarchy or something.
“They should feel ashamed for slut-shaming that girl for not wearing a bra,” said Isabella Ayer, a student who participated in the protest. Another female student, who wanted to remain anonymous, wore a shirt that stated, “Do my nipples offend you?”
But the school stood firm and said any violations of the school dress code would be met with disciplinary actions. And it turns out when the adults act like adults and do not indulge kids in uninformed grandstanding, things don’t go all haywire. Apparently the level of “civil rights violations” did not strike most of the other high school girls as warranting the risk of discipline. Nothing of subtance happened. There were no dress code disciplinary actions.
“It was a completely uneventful day,” said District spokesman Mike Barber.
Well, not quite. It may have been uneventful as far as the protest goes. But something eventful is bubbling.
The ACLU of Florida is investigating suing the school and the district, said Nancy Abudu, the legal director. “The ACLU is carefully investigating what happened in terms of the policy the school has enforced, and we have been in touch with the family,” Abudu told the Tampa Bay Times’ Gradebook Podcast.
That’s just a terrific way for the school district to have to spend money, defending itself from spurious lawsuits by progressive activists within the ACLU. The district, like others in Florida, is already seeking ways to harden schools and provide law enforcement officers in each school at the cost of millions of dollars that had not been budgeted.
Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a former board member for the national ACLU who did not vote for Trump, has had an epiphany about the organization. He wrote in The Hill: “…over the last several years it has turned from being a neutral civil liberties organization to a left-wing, agenda-driven lobby group…Now, since the election of President Trump, it has sunk to a new low, becoming a cheerleader for the violation of the civil liberties of those on the other side of the political spectrum.”
This has been true of the ACLU for longer than the last several years. But it is gratifying to see someone of Dershowitz’s stature acknowledge it.
The original incident came about two weeks ago when the 17-year-old female Braden River High School student went to school in a loose top without a bra. Her teacher notified school administrators that the revealing outfit was being a distraction in class and administrators determined it to be a violation of the school’s dress code and told her to put a T-shirt on under her loose shirt. But the female administrator thought the girl’s nipples remained too prominent and sent the girl to the nurse’s office to put four band-aids on to “X out her nipples.”
The girl’s story went viral internationally — and The Revolutionary Act was one of the first to report on the girl turning her embarrassment into a civil rights crusade.
We’ll continue to watch what the ACLU does here and what it costs the district.
Why the outrage?
The girl had “nothing to write home about”. If you know what I mean.
I saw a picture of her on one of the previous threads wearing the top that she wore that day. It didn’t exactly look revealing to me.
exactly. They are provoking people to look at them with this charade, but then the first time anyone does, they scream sexual harrassment! This has the markings of the feminazi movement all over it.
The school was wrong and went overboard. There are girls whose nipples are visible even when wearing a bra. My wife has large nipples and this is the case with her (she’ll be angry at me if she sees this post but I see it as a positive). All women have breasts, and they can’t be totally concealed so it’s a nothing burger. Some guys go shirtless and have big nipples and not a peep from the morality police. The ACLU is right in this instance to go after the school.
Hillary finds them very distracting.
LOL, SOMEONE is going to post that picture, damn you!
In the late 60’s the Students for a Democratic Society staged a national protest at my high-school. SDS members from all over the country converged on it. They sent a bunch of topless girls running through the halls to hand out anti-Vietnam War literature.
The teachers were traumatized. The male students thought it was pretty damned cool!
Bra, no bra, sweaters, tube tops, tank tops...teenage boys gonna be distracted.
They can’t go to skule nekkid because the weather is not getting warmer. (Five inches of snow yesterday, still on the ground.) Glow-Ball Warming has caused the sun to go to solar minimium, cooling the Erff down. All the fault of SUVs! (Of course, if the sun went to lunar minimum, it would be a wholly different issue!)
</sarc>. (Need I say it?)
might ? .. uh huh
It were the adults here who unnecessarily escalated this. When I was in high school 30 years ago, girls went braless then too. Nobody cared.
There is not one person on this who is offended by a nipple.
Here it is (at least a link to it, and she looks much better than Rosie O’Donnell):
It were the adults here who unnecessarily escalated this. When I was in high school 30 years ago, girls went braless then too. Nobody cared.
For me it was almost 50 years ago. The middle and end of the hippie flower child years. :)
Was talking with my grandad about this and he said when he was in HS the fad then was see-through blouses the girls wore.
I’m very fond of them.
I never heard this story. Back in my day a ton of high school girls went braless because of all the halter tops and tube tops and, heck, sometimes we just wore a scarf to school as a top. No one said a word. No one was offended. In fact, some of the male teachers seemed to call us more often to come to the front of the classroom.
Oh, hell, why don’t we just let all kids attend school nekkid now that the weather is getting warmer? It would certainly prevent weapons smuggling and the like.
Hummm? Libs defend boobs but not Trump’s Lawyer/client privilege:-)
Slut-shaming? Offending?
Hardly. Excessively attracting.
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