Boy wears dress to school, gets suspended

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By VANESSA HO, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Updated 04:48 p.m., Friday, June 17, 2011

It began as a challenge, when Sam Saurs told his mom he was tired of hearing her complain that her feet hurt in high heels. She bet him he couldn't last a day in heels.

So 15-year-old Saurs, of Port Orchard, not only wore a pair of spiky pumps to school, but a flowy, low-cut dress and make-up. He said he felt "pretty" that day, but the dean at Sedgwick Junior High School told him he was a distraction and to go home, Q13 Fox News reported.

That prompted Saurs to tell the dean he was being sexist, the station said. That led to the boy's suspension for the rest of the school year, KING 5 reported. It was later reduced to three days.

The ninth grader ended up missing the school's dance and annual trip to Wild Waves.

"If anything, it makes me want to be more out there and more spontaneous and crazy," Saurs told KING 5.



Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Boy-wears-dress-to-school-gets-suspended-1429489.php

[cleanhippie]

1. Would a girl have been suspended for wearing a suit and tie?

Yeah, the principal was being sexist. This young man has a lawsuit on his hands that will probably pay for his college.

[csziggy]

6. Bingo! Why can't men have more choices in what they wear?

They used to be allowed to wear robes and such. Heck, in many parts of the world they still can. But Western society now seems to universally force men into the modern version of the Puritan male costume - suit, pants and tie.

One of the things I have appreciated in my life time has been the relaxation of standards of womens clothing. When I was a child, women in public were pretty much restricted to dresses, gloves, heels and hats. The college my older sister attended for her first year (1966-67) did not allow women to wear slacks out of the dorm. Dresses or skirts, heels and hose were required. If a girl did not wear makeup, she was "talked to" to set her straight. Curlers or even messy hair were not allowed in the public rooms of the dorms.

We've come a long way since then.

Men need a similar revolution in their clothing!

[Initech]

8. Amen to that!

[Ian David]

2. And now, how much of a distraction will all this media attention be? n/t

[xchrom]

4. +1

[XanaDUer]

3. K & R'd

that's funny!

[pansypoo53219]

5. why does she HAVE

to wear high heels. i am pretty sure she can find some 1 to 2 inch heels. of course i can't wear shoes anymore. i swear shoe designers are trying to kill women.

[Matariki]

7. I remember girls getting suspended for wearing pants

when I was in elementary school.

Good for him. It's as absurd that boys can't wear want they want as it is for girls not being allowed to wear pants.

[surrealAmerican]

9. Even if the dress he wore ...

... had been against the dress code (for either girls or boys, that is), he should not have been suspended for complaining to the dean. That dean should learn to act like an adult: he's not setting a good example for the students.

[dionysus]

10. that was a hell of a suit and top hat he had in the video, too!

[nichomachus]

11. He should have been suspended

Those shoes were definitely wrong for that dress.

[csziggy]

12. But he does have flair - I liked how his hair matched his tie in the interview!