Suzie Webster thought the outfit her 12-year-old daughter Reese wore to school was perfectly acceptable — because, as Webster’s Facebook post shows, it was perfectly acceptable: Just her school’s uniform shirt and an A-line denim skirt with a hemline that looks to be no higher than a couple of inches above the knee. Embedded content: https://www.facebook.com/suzie.webster3/posts/10154494089963965 More from CafeMom: Nine-Year-Old Girl’s Dress Code ‘Violation’ Is Straight-Up Body Shaming Definitely not the kind of outfit you’d ever imagine your daughter getting in trouble for wearing, right? But as Webster wrote, Reese not only got in trouble, she got called out in front of her peers and insulted: Clubbing?! An after-school “club” where they serve milk and cookies and do arts and crafts projects, maybe. But the teacher’s snarky (and highly inaccurate) slam isn’t even the worst part of this story. The worst part is that Reese’s principal took it upon himself to explain — pardon me, I meant to say MANsplain — to both the girl and her mother “that it was necessary to closely monitor the girls attire because boys at this age get very distracted by the girls and their appearance.” How can this keep happening in this day and age, when there is a constant and current conversation about why boys need to learn how to take responsibility for their actions if we’re ever going to move away from the all too prevalent rape culture that continues to make life hell for women? How, how, how? Did this principal not get the memo? Does he think it’s 1952?! More from CafeMom: School Changes Dress Code to Save Girls From Their Lecherous Male Teachers As the mother of a teenage girl, I feel like this one really gets under my skin. When my daughter was in eighth grade, I got a similar call from her principal telling me that I needed to bring a pair of replacement shorts to her school because the ones she was wearing were too short — according a new dress code that had been put into place just days earlier, after school started (meaning after all the parents already went back-to-school shopping). When I pressed him about why the dress code had been changed, he too gave the “distracting” nature of girls’ clothing as a reason. Long story short, after I went on a huge rant about the sexist nature of that philosophy, nobody bothered my daughter about her shorts (which honestly weren’t even that short) again — which only proves to me that, at least some of the time, school administrators somehow, inexplicably, don’t fully consider the implications of gender-specific regulations like these. None of this is to say that I’m against dress codes entirely, of course, but the rules need to be fair and equitable and consistent. As Webster wrote: It is wrong. And it needs to stop happening. Image via Suzie Webster/Facebook
title: “Teacher Tells 12 Year Old Girl She Should Be Clubbing In Her Too Short Skirt” ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-03” author: “Edward Alger”
Suzie Webster thought the outfit her 12-year-old daughter Reese wore to school was perfectly acceptable — because, as Webster’s Facebook post shows, it was perfectly acceptable: Just her school’s uniform shirt and an A-line denim skirt with a hemline that looks to be no higher than a couple of inches above the knee. Embedded content: https://www.facebook.com/suzie.webster3/posts/10154494089963965 More from CafeMom: Nine-Year-Old Girl’s Dress Code ‘Violation’ Is Straight-Up Body Shaming Definitely not the kind of outfit you’d ever imagine your daughter getting in trouble for wearing, right? But as Webster wrote, Reese not only got in trouble, she got called out in front of her peers and insulted: Clubbing?! An after-school “club” where they serve milk and cookies and do arts and crafts projects, maybe. But the teacher’s snarky (and highly inaccurate) slam isn’t even the worst part of this story. The worst part is that Reese’s principal took it upon himself to explain — pardon me, I meant to say MANsplain — to both the girl and her mother “that it was necessary to closely monitor the girls attire because boys at this age get very distracted by the girls and their appearance.” How can this keep happening in this day and age, when there is a constant and current conversation about why boys need to learn how to take responsibility for their actions if we’re ever going to move away from the all too prevalent rape culture that continues to make life hell for women? How, how, how? Did this principal not get the memo? Does he think it’s 1952?! More from CafeMom: School Changes Dress Code to Save Girls From Their Lecherous Male Teachers As the mother of a teenage girl, I feel like this one really gets under my skin. When my daughter was in eighth grade, I got a similar call from her principal telling me that I needed to bring a pair of replacement shorts to her school because the ones she was wearing were too short — according a new dress code that had been put into place just days earlier, after school started (meaning after all the parents already went back-to-school shopping). When I pressed him about why the dress code had been changed, he too gave the “distracting” nature of girls’ clothing as a reason. Long story short, after I went on a huge rant about the sexist nature of that philosophy, nobody bothered my daughter about her shorts (which honestly weren’t even that short) again — which only proves to me that, at least some of the time, school administrators somehow, inexplicably, don’t fully consider the implications of gender-specific regulations like these. None of this is to say that I’m against dress codes entirely, of course, but the rules need to be fair and equitable and consistent. As Webster wrote: It is wrong. And it needs to stop happening. Image via Suzie Webster/Facebook
title: “Teacher Tells 12 Year Old Girl She Should Be Clubbing In Her Too Short Skirt” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-20” author: “Paul Thompson”
Suzie Webster thought the outfit her 12-year-old daughter Reese wore to school was perfectly acceptable — because, as Webster’s Facebook post shows, it was perfectly acceptable: Just her school’s uniform shirt and an A-line denim skirt with a hemline that looks to be no higher than a couple of inches above the knee. Embedded content: https://www.facebook.com/suzie.webster3/posts/10154494089963965 More from CafeMom: Nine-Year-Old Girl’s Dress Code ‘Violation’ Is Straight-Up Body Shaming Definitely not the kind of outfit you’d ever imagine your daughter getting in trouble for wearing, right? But as Webster wrote, Reese not only got in trouble, she got called out in front of her peers and insulted: Clubbing?! An after-school “club” where they serve milk and cookies and do arts and crafts projects, maybe. But the teacher’s snarky (and highly inaccurate) slam isn’t even the worst part of this story. The worst part is that Reese’s principal took it upon himself to explain — pardon me, I meant to say MANsplain — to both the girl and her mother “that it was necessary to closely monitor the girls attire because boys at this age get very distracted by the girls and their appearance.” How can this keep happening in this day and age, when there is a constant and current conversation about why boys need to learn how to take responsibility for their actions if we’re ever going to move away from the all too prevalent rape culture that continues to make life hell for women? How, how, how? Did this principal not get the memo? Does he think it’s 1952?! More from CafeMom: School Changes Dress Code to Save Girls From Their Lecherous Male Teachers As the mother of a teenage girl, I feel like this one really gets under my skin. When my daughter was in eighth grade, I got a similar call from her principal telling me that I needed to bring a pair of replacement shorts to her school because the ones she was wearing were too short — according a new dress code that had been put into place just days earlier, after school started (meaning after all the parents already went back-to-school shopping). When I pressed him about why the dress code had been changed, he too gave the “distracting” nature of girls’ clothing as a reason. Long story short, after I went on a huge rant about the sexist nature of that philosophy, nobody bothered my daughter about her shorts (which honestly weren’t even that short) again — which only proves to me that, at least some of the time, school administrators somehow, inexplicably, don’t fully consider the implications of gender-specific regulations like these. None of this is to say that I’m against dress codes entirely, of course, but the rules need to be fair and equitable and consistent. As Webster wrote: It is wrong. And it needs to stop happening. Image via Suzie Webster/Facebook
