What are all of these poor male teachers to do????
Woodford County High School in Kentucky has had a dress code for over a decade now. That dress code includes brilliant ideas like banning shirts that reveal a lady's collarbone and other sexually inciting outfits. A student who was busted for deviant outfit was Maggie Sunseri. Her mom took photos of her outfit (seen above), posted it to her
Facebook page, and viral it went. Bad news for the educators that came up with the code 11 years ago because now it needs to be discussed again. Yesterday the school had an
open meeting about it.
On Monday night's meeting, faculty explained they came up with the policy to address fashion concerns that came up a decade ago or the alternative would've uniforms.
"Ten years ago those of us that were on the council championed the student's side of things," said a faculty member.
I'll let you guess that faculty member's gender. Maggie Sunseri is a student who created a documentary called "Shame" about the dress code. In it, Principal Rob Akers explains the history of the dress code as he understands it:
Because teacher's felt they needed it. My understanding that (sic) I wasn't here to observe it, but my understanding was that the standard of dress had gotten so out of whack, so to speak, that the teachers felt it was a distraction.
Yup. But who is being distracted? Probably the girls, busy looking at themselves in the mirror and sexually harassing themselves in the hallways. Just guessing but maybe Principal Rob Akers can enlighten us to the ways of the world:
I worked at another school where there was no dress code and one of the things I dealt with, as an assistant principal who's in charge of discipline—the assistant principal does most of the discipline usually—was that we had a lot of sexual harassment based on what kids were wearing and unfortunately, it always comes back to what the girls are wearing. It's not fair but it's a reality that girls would wear certain things that may have been revealing or um, may...and it sounds like by wearing it they're asking for it which isn't what I want to convey but certain outfits that they wore, created a situation where guys would make inappropriate statements.
I think he explained it perfectly. He doesn't want to convey that they were asking for "it." We all know what they're asking for. "It." "It" makes all of these boys (and men maybe?) unable to learn stuff like math and history. And instead of teaching boys to stop sexually harassing girls and instead of creating an environment that completely sexualizes girls—it's easier to just do what's always been done: shame girls for wearing clothes that make boys feel funny.
The good news is that as a result of the uproar, there will be another meeting about this on September 21. They wouldn't be able to implement a new dress code until January, but it's a start. You can watch Maggie Sunseri's documentary below the fold.