School District in Georgia Says Requiring Masks Is Impractical. But Enforces a Lengthy Dress Code

[Demovictory9]

“Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them,” the superintendent wrote to the Times.

Unfortunately for Paulding County School District students, there are a number of other clothing items that can be mandated.

According to the district’s publicly available student handbook, skirts must be no more than “3 [inches] from the top of the kneecap as measured by a ruler or the length of a 3 x 5 index card” and shorts must be “5 [inches] from the top of kneecap as measured by a ruler or the width of a 3 x 5 index card.” Shirts must be free of “writing, pictures, or graphics that unreasonably attract the attention of other students or cause disruption.” And that’s just a sample of what is allowed; the list of prohibitions is even longer:


So the schools in Paulding County, Georgia, can ban hats, but not mandate masks. Iiiiiinteresting.

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/08/georgia-school-masks-coronavirus-dress-code/

[mr_lebowski]

1. When you have a pathological liar as POTUS, who's getting away with lying many times every day

You get all kinds of other basic asshats thinking "Hey, the President outright lies through his teeth CONSTANTLY, why shouldn't I?"

[aeromanKC]

2. Pretty sure they mandate the restaurant 3

Shirts, pants, shoes. So wow, I guess mandate does work.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Failed to teach a very important scientific, public health concept.

Failure as a school. Despicable.

[BigmanPigman]

5. The "lengthy dress" code doesn't mention the first item

on my school's dress code...the length of dresses/skirts. Everything else is mentioned but that.

[ret5hd]

6. According to the district's publicly available...

student handbook, skirts must be no more than “3 [inches] from the top of the kneecap as measured by a ruler or the length of a 3 x 5 index card”

[BigmanPigman]

7. Oh, I see.

I went directly to the list and skipped the paragraph ahead of it.