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Many parents today are worried about guns at school, dropping test scores, and teenage pregnancy. But 12-year-old Kenneth Fails was put on in-school suspension for several weeks and through two grades for a different offense: long hair. In the Itasca Independent School District in Texas, the rules of the schools are clear: girls can have long hair, boys can't. But the question, now that we're well into the 21st century, is why?

See the full article by Alden Loveshade at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7914171/no_longhaired_boys_allowed.html

 From now no, please post your comments there.

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Photo of Kenneth Fails is from CBS 11 at http://image.cbslocal.com/24/2010/08/24/320x240/kennethfails.jpg  No threat to its copyright is intended by the link to the photo.

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Posted by Alden Loveshade at 06:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

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I was certainly glad when Yahoo accepted my story about Dukes v. Wal-Mart; but I just learned it's not only on Yahoo, it was picked up as an official article of Yahoo! News!

After 10 years of delays, America's largest sex discrimination lawsuit finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The class-action lawsuit  claims Wal-Mart discriminated against women employees, promoting and paying men more and telling female employees to "doll up."

Wal-Mart denied any corporate-level discrimination, and said a class action suit of that size was unworkable and cases should be investigated individually. The multi-billion dollar lawsuit could make fundamental changes to U.S. discrimination law, potentially unleashing a flood of huge class-action suits.

See the article and feel free to comment at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110330/bs_ac/8177125_americas_largest_sex_discrimination_case_reaches_supreme_court

Posted by Alden Loveshade at 12:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (10)

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