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Constitutional Law

Feb. 24, 2014

Tomorrow's leadership: discriminating against nonconformity

It seems some parents simply do not want their children to aspire to leadership roles in life.

William J. Becker Jr.

President, CEO and General Counsel
Freedom X

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Univ of San Diego School of Law

Bill Becker is founder, president, CEO and general counsel of Freedom X, a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit public interest law firm and advocacy center protecting conservative and religious freedom of expression.

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I'm somewhat dumbfounded to learn that some parents simply do not want their children to aspire to leadership roles in life. Or that the very idea is repugnant to the goals they create for their children. But that was the astonishing message Mary and Jon Frudden endorsed when they sued Roy Gomm Elementary School in Reno, Nev., for requiring their elementary-age children to wear a school uniform bearing the motto "Tomorrow's Leaders."

In his brief to the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

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