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Post by Vince524 on Dec 18, 2017 12:47:51 GMT -5
www.wral.com/dress-code-dispute-a-lot-to-shoulder-for-charlotte-area-senior/16711009/
A senior at Hickory Ridge High School outside Charlotte worries her college future is in jeopardy, and it's all stemming from a shirt she wore.
On Wednesday, the girl wore a green shirt that rests just off the tops of her shoulders and exposes her collarbone
Piecing together a few links.
twentytwowords.com/honors-student-suspended-and-banned-from-graduation-for-wearing-this-shirt/?utm_source=influencer2&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=influencer&utm_content=7027&umtscde=15pdh&umtctd=M2k2eGhwZG5weDY
Recalling the incident, Summer said, “The security guard was within five feet of me, he had his hand on his gun. The principal said, ‘I’m gonna give you an ultimatum. We have tried to call your mother. You either come with me to the control room to change your shirt or we will arrest you,'” she said. “I stayed in my seat just like a lot of role models that I have looked up to stayed in their seats. I mean, you have to stand up for what you believe in.”
Summer was about to get handcuffed but her mom called back just in the nick of time, and she was led back to the control room, where school officials gave her a 10-day suspension and ordered not to attend any senior activities, including graduation. www.wcnc.com/news/education/dress-code-series-of-events-lead-to-honor-roll-students-suspension/441049132
Summer says she and the principal have had a number of issues during her four years at the school. The tension has gotten so bad that her mother says she recently instructed the school administrators to call her before taking any sort disciplinary action against Summer.
Summer says, when the principal told her to go to the control room, she remained seated.
"They can't take me anywhere unless my mother is called," she says. "So I said 'I apologize, I can't go anywhere with you unless my mom is called."
That's when the situation escalated.
Summer says neither she nor the principal was able to reach her mother. The period ended and Summer accompanied dozens of her friends to the auditorium. Shortly after, she says the principal entered the room and ordered everyone to leave except for Summer.
"[The SRO] was within five feet of me, he had his hand on his gun. [The principal] said 'I'm gonna give you an ultimatum. We have tried to call your mother. You either come with me to the control room to change your shirt or we will arrest you."
This is important.
Schools often use FERPA which has to do with student privacy as a shield for themselves.
They'll discipline a student and it'll take a lawsuit that survives a motion to dismiss that goes to discovery to get any relevant records. .
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Post by Vince524 on Dec 18, 2017 13:06:55 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Dec 18, 2017 13:44:09 GMT -5
Wait. That third link in your first post, Vince, it says this:
If that's accurate the principal is an ass and should be fired immediately, imo.
Also, what the hell is a "control room"? I've never, ever heard that term used in a school before.
ETA: Also, this incident is from MAY...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 13:54:03 GMT -5
I'm wondering if the "control room" has a little switch at the principal's desk that locks the door from the inside... I honestly roll my eyes over the way people get so hysterical about school dress codes. If parents feel that strongly about it, get uniforms. Barring that, if it were me, I'd forbid, say, t-shirts with racist slogans or obscene words or pictures, and clothes that belong on the beach or on a prostitute. But other than that, come on. Most of these school administrators probably went to school in the 70s, when girls wore skirts like this to school:    I think the shirt is totally fine. Call me a slut, but I'd wear something with that cut (or close to it, anyway) to the office -- if I had a client meeting, I'd throw a jacket over it. It's a freaking collar bone. Even if the shirt was not fine, her throwing on a jacket should have been the end of it. And anyway I look at it, the punishment is absurd. |
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Post by robeiae on Dec 18, 2017 14:43:28 GMT -5
Slut.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 16:14:27 GMT -5
*files sexual harassment suit* |
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Post by Vince524 on Dec 18, 2017 16:42:03 GMT -5
You're right it is from May. It popped up on Twitter today, so I grabbed it. I can't find any story that says if she was expelled or if the suspension was carried out.
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Post by robeiae on Dec 18, 2017 16:57:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 18:22:40 GMT -5
FFS. It wasn't even "off the shoulder", as they describe it. It wasn't particularly low. Basically, it showed her collarbone. And she was willing to wear the jacket over it.
God, I hate people.
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Post by prozyan on Dec 18, 2017 18:53:46 GMT -5
Schools are more like prisons these days. Locally, this young lady was recently suspended for violating the dress code. This was during a "spirit week" where students could bring a dollar to donate to Red Cross and in return dress up as a daily "theme". She was dress coded because her outfit was "too revealing". This is a public photo that appeared in the local newspaper. You can read about it here: |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 21:39:56 GMT -5
For pity's sake. The new school uniform:  Only they'll probably decide red is too racy. I must admit that one of the things that annoys me most about these dress codes is that they always focus disproportionately on what girls can and cannot wear, generally with the rationale that the girls' clothing might be distracting to boys. Count me as confident that boys could continue to learn while this girl wore leggings and the girl above wore her blouse. I don't recall my school having a dress code at all -- if there was one, I don't remember anyone ever getting busted under it. I was always a pretty demure dresser myself, but some of the girls wore short skirts and such. I just don't recall the handwringing. |
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Post by haggis on Dec 18, 2017 21:59:40 GMT -5
Well, I for one always checked out the girls' collar bones when I was in high school. Yep. Nothing sexier than a collar bone.
WTF is the matter with these school systems who continue to treat girls as pieces of meat? Pieces of meat charged with the responsibility of keeping the predators away. Maybe, you know, the boys should have to wear blinders or something if they can't control their collar bone urges.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 22:08:08 GMT -5
Well, to be fair, chihuahuas and bones... and chihuahuas and collars...
Seriously, though, I think it's a really rotten lesson they're teaching with the way they push these dress codes, for both boys and girls. I've seen one too many posts of girls suspended or asked to change or barred from the prom for outfits that looked perfectly fine to me.
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Post by haggis on Dec 18, 2017 22:22:14 GMT -5
Well, to be fair, chihuahuas and bones... and chihuahuas and collars... Seriously, though, I think it's a really rotten lesson they're teaching with the way they push these dress codes, for both boys and girls. I've seen one too many posts of girls suspended or asked to change or barred from the prom for outfits that looked perfectly fine to me. This is way too common. And, yes, it's mostly slut shaming. WTF was the matter with what that girl was wearing? I guarantee you, it's way more modest than what she's wearing after she gets home from school and hangs with her friends. And that's something her parents should deal with, should they so decide. Not the school. |
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Post by Don on Dec 19, 2017 7:35:27 GMT -5
For pity's sake. ... I don't recall my school having a dress code at all -- if there was one, I don't remember anyone ever getting busted under it. I was always a pretty demure dresser myself, but some of the girls wore short skirts and such. I just don't recall the handwringing. What reallllllly pisses me off is that when I was in high school, we did have a dress code. I got suspended multiple times because my hair was too long, and it finally took an ACLU lawsuit to regain our personal freedom of expression. Now we have children who want to be told what to wear, and parents who think that it's acceptable for their children to be dictated to when it comes to the clothes they are allowed to wear? W.T.F. Perhaps my youth was really mis-spent. I thought it was the ones with the vapid stare and no interests besides sports, booze and getting laid that were wasting their youth. |
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