The Supreme Court declined Monday to review a decision by a lower court that barred a private charter school from requiring female students to wear skirts.
In 2019, several female students filed a lawsuit with the ACLU against the Charter Day School in North Carolina, which requires students to wear a uniform, with pants for male students and skirts for female students. A federal court ruled against the school, prohibiting them from enforcing the rule, and the school then appealed to the Supreme Court to uphold the schoolâs right to enforce a dress code.
However, the justices declined to review the case, according to the Monday order list.
âTodayâs announcement is a victory for the thousands of students who attend public charter schools in North Carolina and for the 3.6 million students like them nationwide,â Ria Tabacco Mar, Director of the ACLU Womenâs Rights Project, said in a press release. âGirls at public charter schools have the same constitutional rights as their peers at other public schools â including the freedom to wear pants. We will continue to fight for all girls to learn in safe and equal schools.â
The schoolâs founder, Baker Mitchell, has said the dress code requirements are to promote âchivalry,â according to the Associated Press, but the ACLU argued in the lawsuit that the female students âclaim the skirts requirement sends a message that their comfort and freedom to engage in physical activity are less important than those of their male classmates.â The school is currently allowing female students to wear pants in accordance with the federal courtâs previous ruling.
The ACLU and Charter Day School did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundationâs request for comment.
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