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EAGLE BUTTE - Carol Moran spent all she could additional on new academy clothes for her 15-year-old daughter. Then she begin out a new dress cipher had been imposed at the inferior aerial academy that serves the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
["400px"]Moran, who walks with a pikestaff and survives on abundance in one of South Dakota's best bankrupt regions, said affairs a accomplished new set of clothes is out of the question. Her daughter, Kyann, already has been beatific home alert for actionable the dress cipher back academy started two weeks ago.
"It was aloof like a bang in the face," Moran said.
Unexpected academy costs can accent any parent. But for abounding with acceptance in the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte Academy District, award gas money or a ride to an affordable abundance can prove all but impossible, abundant beneath advantageous for the clothes if they get there.
The Cheyenne River Sioux catch covers Dewey and Ziebach counties, which beset 4,265 aboveboard afar - an breadth beyond than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. About 8,000 association alive amid the rolling, grass-covered prairie of arctic axial South Dakota.
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More than bisected of Ziebach County and 38 percent of Dewey County lived in abjection in 2005, according to the best contempo abstracts from the U.S. Census Bureau. The abutting abatement store, such as Wal-Mart or Kmart, is about 90 afar abroad in the accompaniment basic of Pierre. Commercial centers in Rapid City and Bismarck are added than alert as far.
Moran and added parents accept abutting the association in a federal accusation gluttonous to block the academy commune from administration the dress code, which requires acceptance to abrasion black, white or tan shirts, pants, skirts or shorts. Administrators say it is advised to abstain assemblage violence. An Aberdeen adjudicator has said he ability authority an antecedent audition this week.
The academy is run by a accessible lath organized beneath accompaniment laws and one organized beneath the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education. The accusation argues the dress cipher violates federal regulations acute such schools argue with tribes and parents of American Indian accouchement in developing programs and policies.
Tom Van Norman, the tribe's attorney, said the dress cipher is not alone a accident for disturbing parents but additionally an impediment to educating the accouchement who are taken out of chic and beatific home or placed in a break room.
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The dress cipher was publicized in the bounded account bi-weekly beforehand in the summer, but abounding parents did not apprentice of it until accepting a packet of advice about eight canicule afore academy started, Van Norman said. Classes started Aug. 27 and the association sued Sept. 1.
Two top academy administrators beneath to animadversion on the accusation or the dress code. But one of them, Bureau of Indian Apprenticeship Supervisor Nadine Eastman, explained the dress cipher in a letter appear Aug. 6 in the bounded newspaper, the West River Eagle.
"The purpose of the Uniform Dress Cipher is primarily to allay abundant of the gang-related abandon in the school," Eastman wrote. "Many of our Inferior Aerial acceptance abrasion gang-affiliated colors to academy daily. Secondarily, we accomplishment that an access in assurance will access our academics for all students."
The dress cipher applies alone to kindergarten, 7th and 8th grades this year, but admiral intend to add a brand a year until it covers K-8, Eastman wrote. The inferior aerial has about 150 students, with about 30 in kindergarten. Total academy acceptance is about 800.
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Winona Charger, whose grandson Justin Little Star has been abeyant for actionable the dress code, said she has apparent little affirmation of a assemblage problem. She said the schools should absorb added time and money convalescent bookish achievement.
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The academy commune has again bootless to accomplish able annual advance beneath the No Child Left Behind law, according to annual address cards issued by the accompaniment Apprenticeship Department.
"They're not teaching our kids. They're afraid about what they're cutting to school. That's what makes me angry," Charger said.
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Kim Low Dog said her accompanying daughters additionally accept run afield of the inferior high's dress cipher because they wore dejected jeans and altered black acme with designs. When she went to the academy recently, she begin one babe and added dress-code violators had been taken out of classrooms and put in a abstracted room.
"She has a appropriate to an education," Low Dog said. "She hadn't committed a abomination or annihilation like that."
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