News : No sympathy for student who beat teacher unconscious

This story came up a couple of times in my educational news feeds, and while it raises several issues, the one I'd like to address is that line thing. Where is the line between your rights and mine? Or alternatively, between the rights of the individual and those of the group. In this case, the school clearly made terrible policy decisions, although I do wonder to what extent they were forced into these decisions by district or state policy and by state law.

The ties that bind

One of the private schools near me has a uniform, one which is largely generic and pretty much the same for boys and girls. Both wear white button-down shirts, both wear v-necked sweaters and both wear ties. However now the girls are complaining at having to wear ties. They're not unhappy at everyine wearing ties, they appear not to dislike the ties themselves. They are unhappy that they as girls have to wear ties.