Edmonson County High School senior Amanda Durbin got in trouble for wearing a dress that did not meet the stringent requirement of the Kentucky high school she attends. The dress, seen in the above picture, was considered to sit too high above her knees. Forget about the insanity of this kind of dress code, Amanda and other students say that since this past winter break, the enforcement of the dress code has become considerably more intense.
According to the school, the dress code is the same as it's been for three years, but recently more attention is being turned to it.
"As of a teacher's meeting Wednesday afternoon, we've told the teacher's we need to be more consistent and we need to look at the dress code to make sure we're enforcing it," said Principal Tommy Hodges during a Monday interview.
What’s that mean to “be more consistent”?
Amanda said the length of her dress was tested by her getting on her knees and a ruler measured how far the floor was from the end of her dress.
"There were at least 30 to 40 or more girls that were either sent home or told they needed to change because they were out of dress code. Some of them were wearing the same thing I was wearing," said Durbin.
When the principal was told that the dress Ms. Durbin wore that day was one she could wear to church, Principal Hodges said that he was running a school, not a church. The logic behind this argument is sound: Jesus was a total perv who loved wanton women (it’s in a movie a saw about the Bible so it’s got to be true). Hodges defended his position by saying that a bunch of boys were “written up” for having holes in jeans and such, and Amanda was allowed to request her parents be there for the “kneeling” test. I think we know what’s going on.
“I didn’t really appreciate having to get down on my knees, especially while I was in a dress,” she said.
She said the first time Hodges measured her, she was in dress code, with 5 inches. However, she said Hodges then made her walk across the room with her hands up and kneel back down, to check if her dress would ride up.
Kneeling? Seriously? I know one principal who has taken down all of the mirrors in his home so he won’t see his grotesque countenance.
Amanda Durbin and other young women have been taking stands on this kind of sexist, religiously bankrupt, hypocrisy for some time now.
You can watch WBKO’s news report about this incident below the fold.