In 2014, Barack Obama’s DOJ sued the Pennsylvania State Police for treating male and female applicants equally. Earlier this month, some media and politicians were up in arms because Missouri lawmakers voted to hold female House members to a dress-code standard approximating that of their male colleagues. But “equality” has always been more ploy than principle. Now there’s yet another example of such, this one relating to school dress codes.
Very upset about them is one Minerva Canto, writing at the Los (Lost?) Angeles Times. “As parents, we expect that our sons and daughters will be treated equally if they attend a public school as is guaranteed by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and Title IX…,” she states.
But while Canto may expect this equal treatment, she apparently doesn’t welcome it. After all, she later complains that “dress codes skirt laws against discrimination by regulating items of clothing for all students rather than creating separate rules for girls and boys.” Got that?
Treating students equally and thus conforming to anti-discrimination law is to skirt anti-discrimination law. It’s sort of like a Zen Koan, I guess.
Read the rest here.
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