Starting at a new school is tough. Being singled out in front of your new classmates for a reason you don’t understand makes it even tougher.
This is the situation Bella Jones found herself in, after her middle school in Lansey, Kansas decided the 11-year-old’s leggings violated the school dress code.
The Year Six student was dismissed from her classroom and sent to the office, where she was forced to put on a pair of borrowed tracksuit bottoms and told she was not allowed to call her mother to bring her a change of clothes.
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If boys can't control themselves, maybe they should be excluded? How ridiculous. If that is the reason, I think boys at that age can't control themselves over a breath of wind!
I find it insulting, as the mother of a son, that some people think that boys won't be able to control themselves around a girl in leggings. Or a singlet top. Or shorts. Geez, not all men are odious predators who can't control themselves ;) Many of them of them have been taught and do know that women are more than just a body and are actual people with thoughts and feelings.
It was the mothers opinion that was why, the school doesn't appear to have said anything about boys.
Schools & workplaces can set dress standards without it being about the other sex.
I agree with you. I find the whole idea of females being expected to dress or act a certain way because males can't control themselves a ridiculous and dangerous notion (a certain religion springs to mind). And in defence of boys, I realise one of the awkward things about being a teenage boys is they can become visibly aroused even unknowingly or unwillingly. So the whole premise of banning that outfit is absurd and insulting.
That poor kid!! How humiliating for her!! There are times when schools need to think about the consequences (and methods) of enforcing a rule, and this was one of them! A simple 'please don't wear leggings to school again as they don't fit in with our dress rules' (quietly done, and in a way that the child was not embarrassed) so that she didn't want to wear them on another day would have sufficed, if they really had a problem with them. She was new to the school for goodness sake!! Did they at least give her a warning about it previously? Or did they go straight to heavy handed? Really poorly handled school! They have a right to have dress rules (I can only imagine how complicated it gets in American schools where there are no uniforms), but this could have been handled so much better.
As a side note, Kansas is one of the US states that allow the teaching of "creationism" alongside evolution, actually in science class. Not surprised they can't handle a pair of floral leggings!