Hannah Kozak, 18, and other girls were required to wear a dress or skirt to commencement.
By Katie Mettler Katie Mettler Reporter covering breaking news and features Email Bio Follow May 6 at 9:36 AM Hannah Kozak was perplexed.
It was the principle of it all, the fact that it was 2019 and women had been wearing pants for a century.She knew female students before her had found the policy problematic and that individual exceptions had been made for those who felt strongly enough about the issue to formally ask for permission from administrators to put on pants
“Sometimes when you want something changed you have to be the one to do it,” Kozak said. “Why not be the one to push it?”First she went to her senior class adviser and biology teacher, who said she didn’t make the rules — she just enforced them. Next, Kozak called on her principal at Norwin High School, who said the rule was about formality and uniformity, that the school didn’t want any one student to stand out from the pack.
Kozak, a journalist herself, threatened to take the case to the media — and, if necessary, to the courts. As her time came to a close, she called the whole ordeal “sad and disappointing.” The next day, Kozak contacted local TV news station KDKA 2, who interviewed her for a story and reached out to the school for a statement.
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