Male Student Suspended for Wearing Skirt

[Shana A]

Male Student Suspended for Wearing Skirt

By Natalie Lopez
NBCWashington.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47474636/ns/local_news-washington_dc/t/male-student-suspended-wearing-skirt/?fb_ref=.T7ZTarh9xWM.like&fb_source=home_multiline

A male student was suspended from a southern Maryland school for wearing girls' clothing, and the incident has sparked a big controversy in Calvert County.

Warren Evans, an openly bisexual student at Calvert High School, was suspended for violating the school's dress code by wearing a skirt.

Evans says the school is discriminating against him and does not believe he violated any dress code.

"I don't think so. Why not? It didn't say anywhere in the code of conduct or dress code that says boys can't dress like girls," Evans commented.

[suzifrommd]

Wrong in SO many ways.

I'm embarrassed on behalf of my profession. We educators should be modeling open-mindedness and rational thought rather than knee-jerk reaction and pointless rules.

I hope some civil-liberties sex discrimination lawyer swoops in and fries them.

[Sarah Louise]

I am in favor of some kind of dress code.  Not a gender specific code, but some of the things I see High School and College kids wear today is terrible.

I'm not against women wearing pants (which was not allowed when I went to high school except "under" their skirt in the dead of winter but had to be removed when they got to school), I'm not against men wearing skirts.  I am against some of the short shorts, the pants hanging down to the ankles, some of the pictures and/or wording on some tops. 

A degree of decency in how people appear is better for a good learning attitude.  (I know, I'm old fashion).

[suzifrommd]

I am in favor of some kind of dress code. 

Agreed.

I wasn't so much concerned with the fact that they had a dress code, but instead the rigidity about how males were supposed to be different from females.

[AbraCadabra]

Not Scottish, obviously

They even wear, WILL HAVE TO wear, skirts in the Armed Forces! Hum.

Just goes to show, eh?

Axélle
PS: will they also ban girls when wearing slacks/trousers???

[Shana A]

I believe that dress codes shouldn't be gender specific. If girls are allowed to wear skirts of a certain length, or high heeled shoes, then boys should be allowed to wear the same.

Z

[suzifrommd]

I believe that dress codes shouldn't be gender specific. If girls are allowed to wear skirts of a certain length, or high heeled shoes, then boys should be allowed to wear the same.

Zythyra, I'd go even further than that.

I want to see a mindset that says that authoritarian institutions (schools, government, army, corporations, etc.) do not have any business deciding how men and women should be different.

Claiming that some behavior/expression is OK for males but not females or vice versa is GENDER DISCRIMINATION. There is no other name for it.

[Shana A]

Zythyra, I'd go even further than that.

I want to see a mindset that says that authoritarian institutions (schools, government, army, corporations, etc.) do not have any business deciding how men and women should be different.

Claiming that some behavior/expression is OK for males but not females or vice versa is GENDER DISCRIMINATION. There is no other name for it.

I agree!

Z

[Sephirah]

You have to wonder how much of a school's dress code is based on the views of a few influential, conservative-minded parents deciding at some meeting or other that "I don't want my kid(s) being exposed to it".

[Shana A]

Warren Evans, Skirt-Wearing Maryland Boy, Suspended From Calvert High School

Posted: 05/18/2012 7:01 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/warren-evans-skirt-suspension_n_1528593.html

WASHINGTON -- Should a male student be kicked out of school for wearing a skirt? A high school in Maryland's Calvert County thinks so.

WRC-TV/NBC4's Shomari Stone reports that Warren Evans, a student at Calvert High School, has been suspended for violating the school's dress code.

Evans, shown on camera wearing a short pink skirt, high heels and a wig, told Stone that he doesn't think he's done anything wrong.

"It didn't say anywhere in the code of conduct or the dress code that boys can't dress like girls," he said to Stone. "I feel annoyed that they would go out of their way to make a problem just with me wearing a skirt."

[Jamie D]

Not Scottish, obviously

They even wear, WILL HAVE TO wear, skirts in the Armed Forces! Hum.

Just goes to show, eh?

Axélle
PS: will they also ban girls when wearing slacks/trousers???

Kilts! my dear. Kilts.

[Jamie D]

You have to wonder how much of a school's dress code is based on the views of a few influential, conservative-minded parents deciding at some meeting or other that "I don't want my kid(s) being exposed to it".

The funny thing is, public school dress code cases have made it all the way to the US Supreme Court.

[Cindy]

An interesting dilemma. If girls wear similar attire I can see nothing wrong with him wearing it. The dress code seems to be rather bizarre, in that the clothing looked OK to go clubbing but for school? I think if the school wants a dress code they should define it so people are better dressed. In my old fashioned mind heels and short skirts are a pretty poor dress code for girls at school.