The North Carolina school enforced mandatory skirts to “promote chivalry,' Teen Vogue exclusively learns.
After three years, The American Civil Liberties Union settled their lawsuit against the Classical Charter Schools of America in North Carolina for $1.456 million. The initial case was brought together by parents and children of the school who challenged the mandatory “skirts only” rule for girls.
She was just nine years old when a few students gathered together to push back on the skirts only rule. Now, at eighteen, she realizes just how much it affected her. “As a woman, you have long hair, and you wear a skirt,” Booth tells Teen Vogue on what she was taught to believe because of her school's dress code. “And I guess that's what I thought was accepted or expected because I was little.
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