>>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39538644/ns/today-parenting/?gt1=43001
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>>"Church of Body Modification"??? Yeah, right...
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>>Notice how the article doesn't talk one bit about the kid's grades.
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>Yes it does. "....This is a case about a family's right to send a 14-year-old honor student to public school ...." - which means she's probably has all A's and *maybe* one B.
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>I'm not so sure about the "Church of Body Modification" argument that the ACLU is using - but geeeze why the hell suspend the kid just because she wants to wear a tiny nose piercing anyway? THAT'S what is idiotic here.

My daughter got sent home from school once for wearing (what all teens wear by the way) spaghetti straps and another time for wearing a t-shirt with writing on it. It read Hollister, but the dress code (at a public school) specified no writing on clothes.