The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a publicly funded North Carolina charter school that wanted to force girls to wear skirts to school because they are “fragile vessels” who need to be handled “more gently than boys.” By rejecting Charter Day School’s appeal, the highest court agreed that the school’s rules violated the girls’ constitutional civil rights.
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving a North Carolina charter school's dress code, leaving in a place a lower court's ruling that girls at Charter Day.