Male Student Suspended for Wearing a Skirt

[William769]

Boys cannot wear skirts, according to one Maryland high school that reportedly suspended a student for doing just that.

http://www.advocate.com/society/youth/2012/05/18/male-student-suspended-wearing-skirt

I wonder if this means they will suspend girls who wear pants? T-shirts? The list goes on and on.

Discrimination plain and simple.

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. At work, we get sent home if we wear jeans, tennis shoes, cut offs, and all kinds of other stuff

that doesn't fit the dress code of our workplace.

Where I used to work (in Miami), it was even more rigorous. Certain types of pants were allowed and others were disallowed, culottes were not allowed, minis were not, revealing clothing were not, and a lot of other stuff.

In both places hair was also an issue. Wild hair dyes were not allowed, spikes, and a huge list of other stuff.

Certain tattoos had to be covered, and (I'm going to take a guess here) people who might be covered in tattoos would not be hired.

All kinds of stuff did not suit the image the places want(ed) to project to their clients.

Even CLEANLINESS was an issue in many of the companies I worked at. One woman was suspended for having a very strong odor that was affecting her co-workers. She was counseled and returned to work within 2 weeks with no smell.

I was sent home to change one time when I wore open-toed high heeled shoes at my last place. Only closed toe shoes were allowed. No toes peeking with all kinds of wild nail polish.

[William769]

3. I'm assuming thats the case for male and female?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. It's different for males, but yes, there are requirements for males, and different requirements for

females.

Men were required to wear flat, closed shoes, no sandals, no cut-offs, absolutely no skirts or dresses ever, required were button down shirts unless they worked as maintenance staff or runners, in which case they were required to wear golf shirts with the logo of the place, the hair had to be short and well-kept, cleanliness, of course.

[msongs]

5. women are privileged and don't have to follow the same rules as men? ok nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. Nono, women had their own rules, and men had their own rules. There were separate dress codes. One

set for women, and one set for men.

[Jamastiene]

9. The difference is those are private companies.

This is a public high school, federally funded. Title 9 prohibits discrimination and unequal policies for different genders.

Edited to add link to info on the school in question:
http://www.trueschools.com/elementary-schools/maryland/prince-frederick/calvert-high/

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. Yes, they are private companies. nt

[Jamastiene]

7. Hope they never get a Scottish exchange student who wears kilts.

Their policy could cause an international incident of the most embarrassing kind.

It sounds like a discriminatory policy. The ACLU could take them to court over it easily. I protested the policy at my community college that forced women to wear skirts or dresses to graduation. A sternly worded letter from the ACLU, citing the parts of Title 9* that said they cannot do that, backed them down on that policy real quick. They changed the policy for all future graduations and functions at the college and for my graduation too. There was thunderous applause when they announced the policy change at graduation rehearsal too.

*and yes, Title 9 goes both ways. Males can use it too because if they have different policies for males and females, that is discrimination.

[intaglio]

8. Petty minded, contemptible prejudice

Wonder what they would do if Mr Connery showed up in his kilt, or perhaps the Black Watch

BTW sorry for a previous post. My error for not thinking on

[Zorra]

10. "I feel annoyed that they would go out of their way to make it a problem,

just for me wearing a skirt."

LOL. They really are soooo annoying.

Go get 'em, darlin'.

[Jamastiene]

11. Like

I wish we could like individual posts. Your post is a really good one.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. Good old Calvert County School District

Our kids finished up there when we moved back to the US.

Taking bets one of the principals has a fundy stick up their butts.

[mysuzuki2]

14. Dress codes are fascism.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. Could be, but dress codes are found everywhere on this planet.

Perhaps other planets don't have them.