Student Suspended for wearing a dress.

[Dags90]

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43444840

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. ? A 15-year-old boy has been suspended from school after wearing high heels and a dress to school as a part of a challenge laid down by his mother.

Sam Saurs, a ninth grader at Sedgwick Junior High School in Port Orchard, said he told his mother that wearing high heels wouldn't be that hard. Saurs' mother challenged him to try it and he accepted. To take it even further, he decided to wear a dress, too.

"I was pretty," said Saurs.

After Saurs showed up at school Wednesday in the dress and heels, the school suspended him for the remainder of the year. That suspension was later reduced to three days. But, Saurs won't be allowed to go to the ninth grade dance or the class party at Wild Waves.

Saurs said he was disappointed it got him kicked out of school.

"If anything, it makes me want to be more out there and more spontaneous and crazy," he said.

Saurs has been suspended before for wearing makeup and hats to class.

His mother, Ivanna Leible, said she did not complain about the suspension since the school does have a ban on hats, but she said there is no rule against boys wearing dresses in the student handbook.

"I found that very offensive. They told him he couldn't be him," said Leible.

The South Kitsap School District said the issue has been resolved and would not make any further comment about the incident.

To clarify, this is a public school (meaning taxpayer funded). I think it's ridiculous to deny someone education via suspension simply for being nonconforming. The biggest problem is that this wasn't written anywhere. Are they trying to teach students that written rules don't matter?

Shouldn't the law which struck down "dresses only for girls" dress codes also have stricken "pants only for boys"?

Title (a) Prohibition against discrimination; exceptions. No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance

Or do boys just have less of a right to wear dresses than girls do to wear pants?

 

[Reaper195]

Ah, the US. Land of the free indeed. This is fucking disgraceful that people still exclude other people simply for doing something different. And just to put this on a flat line for the school, you think that it being a dare from someone else it would have been all fine, considering he wasn't doing it to simply wear feminine clothing.

Ugh, I hate this world at the moment.

Edit: And just because of the nine years of being on the net, I finally got first post!

 

[Saelune]

I domt mind dress codes. Long as they are not sexists. If wearing a dress and heels is not ok for him, then every vagina in a dress and heels also should get suspended.
Ofcourse, fi I was him, Id be browsing for all the new dresses Id be able to buy with the settlement money after I sue. (Though I actually wear dresses cause I like them, as opposed to bets)

 

[TimeLord]

Everyone should wear what they want. If it breaks school rules (like the hat thing) then fine, but if the dress doesn't break school rules then he should be aloud to wear it if he wants.

 

[Phlakes]

Well, that's kinda... bullshit. And in Washington? If it was the conservative south, I'd understand a bit better, but still...

 

[Pimppeter2]

He only wore the pants to be a troll.

If he was actually gender-queer or a cross dresser, I think it would have been different

I'm not agreeing with the school, but I'm not buying his and his mom's bullshit about it being a moral crusade. Fucking attention whores.

 

[Saelune]

He only wore the pants to be a troll.

If he was actually gender-queer or a cross dresser, I think it would have been different

I'm not agreeing with the school, but I'm not buying his and his mom's bullshit about it being a moral crusade. Fucking attention whores.

Wait what? It was a bet his mother made to make him see how difficult heels are to wear. There was no initial moral crusading.

 

[Labyrinth]

Ohhhh yay, masculinity. Women are congratulated for wearing pants while men are vilified for wearing dresses. I think it's screwed up and fundamentally flawed.

Spoiler: Fun picture

Note: the "you" is directed at people who display that attitude.

So what if he did it as a dare, or as a statement, or for attention? One could argue that it's a valid protest if he's doing it aware of the background of transphobia and gender roles. In fact, I think we should be encouraging men to wear clothes gendered female. More skirts for men!

 

[Pimppeter2]

He only wore the pants to be a troll.

If he was actually gender-queer or a cross dresser, I think it would have been different

I'm not agreeing with the school, but I'm not buying his and his mom's bullshit about it being a moral crusade. Fucking attention whores.

Wait what? It was a bet his mother made to make him see how difficult heels are to wear. There was no initial moral crusading.

That's what I'm saying.

I don't like the way they're turning it into one now.

 

[Saelune]

He only wore the pants to be a troll.

If he was actually gender-queer or a cross dresser, I think it would have been different

I'm not agreeing with the school, but I'm not buying his and his mom's bullshit about it being a moral crusade. Fucking attention whores.

Wait what? It was a bet his mother made to make him see how difficult heels are to wear. There was no initial moral crusading.

That's what I'm saying.

I don't like the way they're turning it into one now.

Why? The school is wrong, and should be called out on it. Why force some future crossdressing student to deal with it later when these people can deal with it now and make it easier for any future students who it applies to.

 

[Saelune]

Wait what? It was a bet his mother made to make him see how difficult heels are to wear. There was no initial moral crusading.

But now they have attention, they're turning it into one.

"I found that very offensive. They told him he couldn't be him," said Leible."

If the school did not want to deal with such issues, they should not have been closed minded sexists. Simple really.

 

[Pimppeter2]

He only wore the pants to be a troll.

If he was actually gender-queer or a cross dresser, I think it would have been different

I'm not agreeing with the school, but I'm not buying his and his mom's bullshit about it being a moral crusade. Fucking attention whores.

Wait what? It was a bet his mother made to make him see how difficult heels are to wear. There was no initial moral crusading.

That's what I'm saying.

I don't like the way they're turning it into one now.

Why? The school is wrong, and should be called out on it. Why force some future crossdressing student to deal with it later when these people can deal with it now and make it easier for any future students who it applies to.

But they didn't

You can't assume it would be the same situation. You can't say the school wouldn't have reacted differently. This was just a kid dicking around in a dress to get attention. He wasn't actually genderqueer, or anything.

You can't blame someone for an injustice they haven't committed before they actually do it. Its not right. The school solved the issue with the kid, they lowered his suspension. Both mom and kid agreed that they're fine with it now, just disappointed.

Now they're just dragging it into the media to be more like the attention whores they are. They're not moral crusaders, and should stop acting like they're standing up for people who are actually facing gender issues. Where's the coverage on kids who actually do face injustices for being gay, lesbian, or genderqueer?

 

[Saelune]

If the school did not want to deal with such issues, they should not have been closed minded sexists. Simple really.

I think there's something fucking wrong with you if you find it offensive. ("You" being operatic for the mother, not your personally). I think it's obviously stupid, I mean six month suspension is crazy on so many levels, but all individualism pisses me off and the attitude sucks.

UP WITH CONFORMISM

To conform is to make the same. Sexism then is an enemy of conformity, thus the school is against conforming.