Student Suspended for wearing a dress.

[electric_warrior]

This is a school, they don't have to follow the wider rules of society. In the normal world, disrespecting a superior won't see you punished, but in school you can be punished very severely. Similarly, in the regular world, cross dressing is fine, but in school, if its against the rules for a boy to wear a dress then its against the rules. It sounds to me like this kid was a repeat offender and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Its not disgraceful, its not a terrible injustice, its a little unfair, but come on, don't do the crime if you can't do the time. School rules are different to the outside world because its a different environment altogether and needs to be controlled as such, they should be followed unless they're ridiculously unreasonable and this clearly isn't that unreasonable.

 

[mercifulwrath]

I think that's more child endangerment than anything else.

 

[Seieko Pherdo]

Glad to see schools focus on these petty issues instead of dealing with real problems and helping kids get through the horror of the teenage years. Good job guys.

 

[Olrod]

Sounds like he would have been better off if he'd been suspended for the rest of the year.

Then he could have found a PROPER school instead of that crappy place.

 

[AMMO Kid]

No offense, but just get over it everyone. These people are from a past generation and will always be like this. Any "OMG these people!" comments are really ridiculous. Soon our generation will be in power and we can do things that the old generations would never allow. Don't judge these people for being who THEY are in the same way we don't want them judging who WE are. They were raised that way. Just let them be...

 

[jakeblues1295]

Depends on the dress code laid out at his school. I know at mine at least it says, "Clothes are to be worn by the appropriate sex for which they were designed." So if the school had something like that in there and he was a repeat offender and had been warned muliple times, then no I don't think the school was completely over stepping their bounds.

 

[MisterGobbles]

I can't really say I'm surprised, but it sounds like someone needs to get a sense of humor. People at my school would find that HILARIOUS, and we live in the middle of Alabama. Hell, we even used to have a Womanless Beauty Pageant at our school until the current superintendent with no fucking sense of humor came in. I think what he did was pretty fucking hilarious, but honestly I also think his mother is crazy for letting him go to school like that.

 

[Thumper17]

If I wore a hat to class, the teacher told me to take it off. So I did. Then we got on with our day.

You don't suspend someone for wearing something, you send them home to change. Unless it's something stupid like "N-ggers should burn" or "Hitler was right" thats expulsion worthy.

 

[thedeathscythe]

Damn. Seriously, schools can't just invent rules because they don't like something and immediately punish students. Sure, things change in our world, so you eventually have to ban cell phones from being on anything but vibrate or off, but don't punish someone the day you make that rule, especially if it's as something as a boy wearing a dress.

In highschool we played PSP everywhere, even in class. One day we brought our PS2 slim and a small tv we had. We opened the tv up and fit it in the top most part of our locker, it seemed to fit beautifully. There was a hole in the top back we ran the cable through to a nearby wall socket and played PS2. That very day the vice principle walked by and attempted to give us detention and to confiscate the tv and PS2. We called his bluff, we said show us a rule that says we can't do that and we'll gladly give it over. He couldn't find one but remained adamant on giving us detention. I told him to call my parents because they were picking me up and wouldn't be too excited about it. I told him to tell them why, and to tell them the non-existant rule we were breaking. So he dropped that too. A week later there was a memo about not having any school property tvs in the hallway,

Thing is, we challenged him on it. Teachers have power trips all the time. Sure, kids can be brats, but sometimes they go too far and they hate backing down because it makes them seem wrong.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

America! Land of prejudice against transvestites!

 

[open trap]

Its ok, I lost hope for my nations edumactional system back when they suspended students for wearing shirts with American Flags on cinco de mayo

 

[Seanfall]

Something similar almost happened at my school. It was one of those 'wacky' dress days. You could dress as the opposite sex. So one of the guys goes whole hog. Shirt Skirt bra the whole nine yards. They threatened to suspend him too. on the DAY YOU WERE ALLOWED TO DO IT! now...maybe it was the shirt skirt, that didn't hold water since there was a girl who wore short skirts almost every day. And one day decided to go pantyless. She was in my class that day sitting in front of me. THANK YOU JESUS!

But seriously....*headdesk* Murder, rape, FOX FUCKING NEWS. And they chose to focus on, 'boys can't wear dresses'. What state was this in again? West Virginia? Well...that explains a lot.
>.< no offense to West Virginian's but so far everyone I've met from there. (my father and grand parents included) have been backwards assholes stuck with out dated ideas and concepts that most of the country (not fox) left behind a couple of decades ago. This country is so sexually repressed and wrapped up it outmoded gender roles it defies description.

 

[mega48man]

i think a female teacher should be suspended without pay for wearing pants to restore balance to the universe.

 

[hailfire]

the school authorities have the right to set down a dress code to maintain order. all of the people talking about "conforming" and how hip "nonconformism" is are just being childish.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

I don't think they hate cross-dressing or are intolerant, I think that the school might have a uniform or rigid dress code (as my high school did) and he decided to be rebellious for the sake of being rebellious. Schools can be illogical, self rightous and irrational to the point of absurdity (like the initial punishment), but doing something is reasonable. Dress codes in schools have mixed effectiveness and necessity, but if your school has one, unless you have an intelligent point to make, stick to it.

He sounds like a bit of a narcissistic ass. Rebellion is a useful tool, but rebellion for the sake of rebellion is tiresome and doesn't do anything, and makes you a glorified idiot.

If people really can't imagine what this might do, you clearly don't remember high school. Morons make a noise, no actual learning gets done because the prick who likes to throw pencils is busy ignoring a blow hard yelling at him. If he wore a dress and high heels to school, and everyone else was in uniform, every class he'd be in would be an exercise in futility.

To reiterate: There is NO homophobia, transvestite intolerance, gender role fascism, no power misuse or any other righteous fight for the greater good and equality going on here. Just a guy being a prick because he doesn't like school.

I should add though, I wish my high school had just let the idiots wear hats. So much time was wasted, in the hundreds of hours, stopping the lesson to wait until someone took a hat off, that maybe two or three people found funny. If they'd just dropped it, they'd stop wanting to wear hats... I hated school sometimes.

 

[Labyrinth]

On the contrary: if you live in a place where women are congratulated for being able to put on a pair of pants, you've got lower standards for the intelligence of women than Borat did.

I believe you have misunderstood my argument. It has nothing to do with intelligence, rather with negative social sanctions which are placed upon men who are believed to have 'feminine' habits or characteristics, while women with traditionally masculine traits are encouraged. See this picture [http://fmnst.tumblr.com/photo/1280/4622549244/1/tumblr_ljcaqjifTp1qglzx1] for a better visual representation, in case you missed it the first time.

 

[drisky]

I don't think they hate cross-dressing or are intolerant, I think that the school might have a uniform or rigid dress code (as my high school did) and he decided to be rebellious for the sake of being rebellious. Schools can be illogical, self rightous and irrational to the point of absurdity (like the initial punishment), but doing something is reasonable. Dress codes in schools have mixed effectiveness and necessity, but if your school has one, unless you have an intelligent point to make, stick to it.

The thing is it was mentioned that men wearing dresses was nowhere in the dress code, and they didn't have uniforms. It just kind came without warning. Its one thing if he broke an established rule, but he didn't.

 

[Korten12]

Sorry - but am I the only one here that thinks a guy wearing a dress (not a kilt) is just well...

Wrong?

I am sorry but that would just be a distraction and just wierd imo.

When girls wear guys clothes - it's fine since many guys clothes for the most part are mono-gender. Meaning they can really fit either or. Except for some few ones.

For people who say: But theres no specific rule saying that he can't.

Well my school rules say nothing against bringing a katana to school. But I know I shouldn't.

 

[cobra_ky]

On the contrary: if you live in a place where women are congratulated for being able to put on a pair of pants, you've got lower standards for the intelligence of women than Borat did.

I believe you have misunderstood my argument. It has nothing to do with intelligence, rather with negative social sanctions which are placed upon men who are believed to have 'feminine' habits or characteristics, while women with traditionally masculine traits are encouraged. See this picture [http://fmnst.tumblr.com/photo/1280/4622549244/1/tumblr_ljcaqjifTp1qglzx1] for a better visual representation, in case you missed it the first time.

fixed your link. [you got an extra "url" at the end of the actual url]

pretty much that entire tumblr is amazing btw.