Is this not more about religious privilege than anything else? Is the problem not that they want to reserve headgear for one religion? https://twitter.com/LibyaLiberty/status/835932719280422915 …
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If you allow a broader exception for student likes/dislikes, you've eliminated the school's power entirely.
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Why? What's the magic ingredient religious values have over secular ones?
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But could argue that in terms of school discipline, kippahs or hajibs are less likely to cause trouble than gang colors and
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Really? You must know of conflict between Jews & Muslims? Violence in some areas?
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Forbidding religious headgear in public schools would force religious parents to send children to private schools
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Not suggesting forbidding it.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/835982075576582144 …
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Traditionally, it's considered disrespectful to wear a hat indoors. Men are expected to remove hats indoors.
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OK but that's just an expectation. People don't have to if its important to them to keep it on.
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There's an exception for religious clothing which we don't think interferes with those other purposes.
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Then it won't for non-religious clothing which serves the same purpose.
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Note I was only referring to ethics + policy, not constitutional law.
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I'm talking more generally anyway. Not limited to America. Don't see it as ethical to give relig ppl more freedoms.
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Generally we allow schools to regulate clothing for purposes of control, decorum, discipline.
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Sure, if it does that, it must be universal. If exemptions can be made w/out this breaking down, shldn't be just for one grp.
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