I think you misunderstood my response.
I wasn’t arguing your point. You may want to reread what I wrote - on this entire page.
I didn’t think you were arguing against my core position. I’m not always the best at explaining what I’m on about though so I think it’s best for me to leave off at this point. Sorry for causing consternation.
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This is some serious b*******. A picture of the cheerleading team shows them wearing super short skirts. A video shows those skirts with added slits on the front. When they are doing their routine and barely bend over, you totally see the briefs underneath. Funny to me that the dance team wears pants and the step team wears the apparently appropriate length shorts. I wonder if that is by choice or if they have to follow the “dress code” when the cheerleaders do not. Also of note, booty dancing is completely sanctioned at the pep rallies. Gotta love hypocrisy.
Pep Rally Video
Definitely Not Knee Length
P.S. - Interesting how the cheerleading page is only available in a cached format. Last available on 9/4, the same day the story broke!
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She was lucky that this was a progressive school – traditional floria law calls for stoning when a temptress shows too much knee.
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There might possibly be an argument that Cheerleading is a varsity sport. In terms of injury rate, it certainly qualifies.
But what other team gets to wear their entire kit to school on game day?
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I’ve see modern cheerleading skirts that covered more skin than those. The girls have to strategically place their hands for modesty in that picture, that’s how short they are! Seems like there are lots of double standards!
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Ah, fair point. I went to inner city schools with a lot of public transport so it wasn’t an issue I’d considered.
Indeed, part of the “punishment” of detention is having to arrange transportation.
I’m with you. I think the only useful thing the earlier poster said was the phrase ‘climate appropriate’. You should be able to wear what you like in most situations. We should only put people in uniforms for a good reason - i.e. Police
I work in high schools where the boys have to wear longs all year and I really feel for them. It is stupid.
Shorts may not fit into their little fashionista world but I see all sorts of people sweating it out in longs trying to conform to their fucked up idea of fashion and I fee really sorry for them too.
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At my high school, we had two late bus services-- one at 4 ish, and the other at 5:30.
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Which might work in a place with public transit or where everyone’s parents drop them off and pick them up. I think the other issue was people having after-school jobs.
They got rid of that at mine. I think it was a budget thing because of Mike Harris (spit)
I doubt the school has 200 dress code violation outfits ready to deploy.
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Merely another part of the “punishment.” You should have thought of that before you did whatever you were punished for.
O tempora, o mores! I’d have welcomed a school uniform at the school I went to (tiny prep school, [EDITED to correct a spell checker that insisted on ‘pre-school’] most of the kids were nouveaux riches). The kids were unbelievably fashion conscious, and there was no way I, a scholarship student, could possibly afford the Italian designers they favored. (In adulthood, I now realize they looked like Mafiosi!) And the idea of wearing shorts to school is foreign to me: I was expected to wear jacket and tie. Jeans absolutely forbidden. The administration would usually relent and let boys remove their jackets in the classroom after the first kid on any given day turned up in the nurse’s office with heat prostration - but seemingly never until then.
I also remember being punished for a dress code violation after the school bully cut off my tie with a pair of scissors. He got off scot-free, because the consequences of ratting on him were far worse than the consequences of a dress code violation. I was punished again when I got home. My mother said I shouldn’t have provoked him, and my father said I should have defended myself.
I know. It’s all a First World Problem.
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I don’t really have a problem with having a dress code violator wear a sweatsuit as “punishment”, I do think the school is being ridiculous in this particular incidence. She looked fine in the black skirt. She could wear that to church or work ! The school needs to make a sensible dress code.
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My brother is sensitive to various laundry detergents. I remember whenever we stayed in a hotel, he’d wake up the next day covered in hives. Whatever they wash the sheets in was harsh enough to set off a really bad reaction.
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My daughter has, on more than one occasion, worn this to school:
Although her school’s dress code is fairly lax (pink or purple hair does not even warrant a blink), and rarely enforced, one would think this is far more “distracting” than a girl’s knees. I wonder what could be different about it? Perhaps that all her wicked lady-skin is covered!
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Agreed. Otherwise known as no dress code.
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Sounds like a bullying problem, which is sadly near universal.
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Only if the boys have to wear something just as uncomfortable.
