You’re eyeballing it wrong. You’re estimating the distance from the bottom of her dress to the top of her knee. It should be the bottom of her knee. Actually, the rules specifically says that it is to be measured while kneeling.
The school’s handbook is in fact available online. It’s inaccessible at the moment, probably from all the people trying to get to it. But Google has a cached copy. Here’s the relevant part.
“Shorts, skirts, and dresses must be no more than six (6) inches from the floor while kneeling. Also, holes in jeans, pants, or the above-named apparel must be no more than six (6) inches from the floor while kneeling. This six (6) inch rule will apply regardless of leggings, hosiery, or other undergarments worn with shorts, skirts, and dresses. Pajama pants and yoga pants are prohibited. Tights and leggings CANNOT be worn as standalone garments.”
I don’t actually have a very modern moral compass, so it’s often hard for me. I think actually my moral compass was made a few thousand years before Christ somewhere in Macedonia or Greece, so all I ask is that people understand my technical limitations! But despite my limits I do try to understand and follow your modern world’s theoretical preference for compassion and understanding* when dealing with authoritarian jerks who should be stomped to death.
*note: some of these concepts are limited by modern world to financially well-off white men.
yeah stupid teenagers that are not considered capable of fully adult reasoning by society and science should totally pick the best way of handling any situation and not complain about the traumatising stuff they go through when they don’t pick the best way!
also in order to make sure she is totally following the rules she should have worn an ankle length dress because then there would not have been any suspicion she might have been breaking the rules. and then a male authority figure could not have forced her to walk in various ways just so he could see a little bit extra teenie skin. what was she thinking!
Which is only an issue if she routinely walked about with her hands in the air followed by her breaking both of her arms while trying to kneel with no friend in sight to put her skirt back into place.
Leaving just three possibilities. Which are not mutually exclusive. Hodges is sexist. Hodges is a pervert. Hodges is an idiot.
No, that’s just the level of intellect Christian Scientist allow themselves to rise to. They also are anti-vax, and pretty much reject all other medicine besides setting bones, because setting bones was what doctors had down pat when that cult started.
we do have private schools in Germany, some of them run by religious groups. but I don’t think they could pull such a stunt; private schools don’t can make rules endangering pupils on a whim, the regulation framework is valid for all types of schools.
No, you see, in the US, the RFRA means that not allowing crackpots endanger or even cause their own children’s deaths totally avoidably is the same thing as religious persecution. Because dominionists think “god’s law” is above the laws most of us people who actually exist agreed on.
my one first-hand experience with the US education system was weird enough. when the course we had at uni performed by a prof of the Alfred University was typical I lost all respect for case studies as an educational tool
What is being overlooked here is that the principal felt the need to measure twice. That, to me, is a sign that he was more interested in catching her at fault than in the spirit of the regulations. He deserves all the scorn that we dump on him.
It’s an immature attitude that too many in positions of authority have. They need to be disabused of this.
Sadly no, the school I went to is still currently running, and under what I assume are even more draconian rules, since they seemed to add more restrictions every year.
Feel free to satisfy your curiousity:
Faith Tabernacle School
1410 Good Hope Road
Mechanicsburg PA
