Wear a dress, get suspended from school

[Jagos]

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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. – A 15-year-old boy has been suspended from school after wearing high heels and a dress to school as a part of a challenge laid down by his mother.
Sam Saurs, a ninth grader at Sedgwick Junior High School in Port Orchard, said he told his mother that wearing high heels wouldn't be that hard. Saurs' mother challenged him to try it and he accepted. To take it even further, he decided to wear a dress, too.
"I was pretty," said Saurs.
After Saurs showed up at school Wednesday in the dress and heels, the school suspended him for the remainder of the year. That suspension was later reduced to three days. But, Saurs won't be allowed to go to the ninth grade dance or the class party at Wild Waves.

Yeah, I shouldn't have given up drinking... But I gotta admit, the boy has balls. Getting kicked out for wearing that...

*Thumbs up buddy*

I won't EVER do it but more power to ya...

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Originally Posted by Jagos

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Yeah, I shouldn't have given up drinking... But I gotta admit, the boy has balls. Getting kicked out for wearing that...

*Thumbs up buddy*

I won't EVER do it but more power to ya...

I could see the school's reasoning behind this if they interpreted him as making a joke (which was the general impression I got from the article) at the expense of others. And what's up with this mother challenging her son to do something that could get him a lot of shit from other people? I get letting your kid be themself but putting them in a position where they'll get harassed makes no sense to me.

[Aerozord]

plus some schools can be rather strict on dress codes. I've heard of ones where even girls cant wear dresses

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

plus some schools can be rather strict on dress codes. I've heard of ones where even girls cant wear dresses

That's a lot of irony considering most conceptions on girls is that "pants will bring down society" while dresses are considered more appropriate for young ladies.

(Yes, private schools are weird)

[Kim]

Crossdressing shouldn't be a punishable offense. End of story.

[synkr0nized]

While I wholeheartedly agree with Noncon's post, I feel it's worth noting you didn't quote the part of the article that mentions he's been suspended before for playing with the dress code rules. That doesn't make it right for them to set the precedent that cross-dressing is some kind of super terrible offense, but it could have partially been motivated by having him on a list as a troublemaker.

[Specterbane]

I think in this case it wasn't so much the cross dressing as the standing out again from the perspective of the administration. The article said he'd has suspensions for "hats and make up" before, and high schoolers being high schoolers it seems like this may have been more as a joke to get people surprised and laughing than anything with his identity beyond that. It fall under the "being a distraction to the learning process" umbrella, at least it would've where I went to school.

All that being said it's a stupid sort of umbrella rule that school over react about all the time. If anything, the most disappointing thing about this to me is how not surprised I am about how all this played out from that article.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Specterbane

I think in this case it wasn't so much the cross dressing as the standing out again from the perspective of the administration.

Pssshhhhh

If this school's anything like my High School was, the administration is probably more worried about suppressing students daring to "stand out" than, y'know, actually dealing with its crippling bullying problem, attempting the broad educational reforms necessary to ensure students succeeded, or preventing sexually deviant behavior from teachers or anything.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Crossdressing shouldn't be a punishable offense. End of story.

It might not be the crossdressing that's the punishable offense, but instead a breach in dress code. For example, there might be a rule banning dresses, which he broke.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

It might not be the crossdressing that's the punishable offense, but instead a breach in dress code. For example, there might be a rule banning dresses, which he broke.

There's not.

It says that right in the story.