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ON Friday, five women and a man set the community standard for Kanawha County: A student may after school form her own club, but during school hours she must follow the dress code and obey the principal.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would be proud, or at least sympathetic with the jury in the case of Katie Sierra vs. the Kanawha County Board of Education.
The jury's job was to balance the purpose of schools with the rights of each student.
The U.S. Supreme Court has wrestled with this very issue a time or two, deciding in 1986 that a student's rights do, indeed, end at the schoolhouse door.