Wear a dress, get suspended from school

[The Sevenshot Kid]

During homeroom, Saurs was called in to dean John Richerson's office. Richerson told him that he was distracting students and that he should go home for the day. Sours response? He told the dean he thought he was being sexist. Richerson then suspended Sours from school for the rest of the year.

Okay, I would have suspended this kid too for calling me a sexist. That's being disrespectful to the principal. If you have a problem with the administration, tell your parents but don't make claims or insult sed member of the administration.

This kid could have just gone home, told his mom, and had her clear it up with the administration but instead, he acted like a kid and said something stupid. This is a kid being a kid. Not news.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Token

More on topic: dude got suspended for three days because he pulled shit that was solely to get attention. This kid is not transgender. He is a dumbass who did the same stuff a bunch of high school kids do because they want attention, and he paid the price.

He explicitly didn't do it to get attention, but rather because of a joke between himself and his mom. It is right there in the news story.

Also, explain why students are not allowed to get attention, where the means by which they do so are not themselves inappropriate.

[Token]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

He explicitly didn't do it to get attention, but rather because of a thing between himself and his mom. It is right there in the news story.

Also, demonstrate where students are not allowed to get attention, where the means by which they do so are not themselves inappropriate.

No. The heels were because of the bet. The dress was because he "decided to take it further."

[Kim]

More on topic: dude got suspended for three days because he pulled shit that was solely to get attention. This kid is not transgender. He is a dumbass who did the same stuff a bunch of high school kids do because they want attention, and he paid the price.

The problem is that the thing he did to get attention shouldn't be wrong in the first place, regardless of why he did it. If he did something wrong beyond that, then he should be in trouble for that. This is like saying if someone went to school in a tux. I'm fairly confident they wouldn't get suspended for it, regardless of why they did it.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Token

No. The heels were because of the bet. The dress was because he "decided to take it further."

Taking further the joke between himself and his mom. Again, the assumption that this had anything to do with getting attention is your invention, not supported anywhere.

The idea that he was having a good-natured joke with his mom is supported, if imperfectly, and it's telling that you are nonetheless utterly rejecting that, (imperfectly) supported assumption, in favor of an unsupported one.

And again, you're not explaining why it's wrong for this student to wear a dress regardless of why he is wearing it.

[Token]

Telling of what, exactly?

And since we're on the subject of "inventions," I didn't say it was wrong for him to wear the dress.

[Kim]

Honestly, the reason doesn't matter. Wearing a dress should not be something students should get in trouble for.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Token

More on topic: dude got suspended for three days because he pulled shit that was solely to get attention. This kid is not transgender. He is a dumbass who did the same stuff a bunch of high school kids do because they want attention, and he paid the price.

to add on this, I figured this would be offensive to transgender people. I mean he turned your life choice into a joke. Be like someone getting suspended for coming to school like this then saying he was suspended for being black.

There is a difference between being suspended for being a minority, and being suspended for pretending to be that minority for a cheap laugh

[Fifthfiend]

It seems to me that if students are wearing dresses to school to "get attention", the thing to do is to, you know, ignore their behavior, and treat them no differently from any other student, denying their attention-seeking behavior.

Rather than instead paying a lot of attention to them, in a way that gets that student on the evening news, while making yourself look like a bigot.

This would also have the salutary affect of not needlessly punishing students who are not out to get attention.

I mean I'm not a school administrator, I'm just saying, that's how I personally would handle that, is all.

[Token]

Originally Posted by The Sevenshot Kid

Okay, I would have suspended this kid too for calling me a sexist. That's being disrespectful to the principal. If you have a problem with the administration, tell your parents but don't make claims or insult sed member of the administration.

This kid could have just gone home, told his mom, and had her clear it up with the administration but instead, he acted like a kid and said something stupid. This is a kid being a kid. Not news.

For the record, this was blatantly disrespectful, and as someone who has been in the position of wearing something stupid to school and antagonizing the principal for calling me out on it, he deserved it.