Brickbat: Shame, Shame

Miranda Larkin, 15, had only been attending Florida's Oakleaf High School for three days and didn't realize the school required dresses and skirts to be at least knee length. And she says she certainly didn't expect that when she showed up wearing a dress than ended above the knees that school officials would force her to change into what she calls a "shame suit," a neon yellow shirt and red sweat pants with "DRESS CODE VIOLATION" on both.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The shame suit should be the new school uniform.

[Snark Plissken]

It was for me. But Mother is quite harmless now, harmless as one of those stuffed birds.

[db]

I would have worn a "shame suit" as a badge of honor, and my classmates would have had respect. Kids these days. If peer pressure is being used to enforce dress codes, it's worse than we thought. The schools are getting the.students to forge their own chains.

[Snark Plissken]

She was so ashamed she took a selfie and plastered it all over the intertubes.

[UnCivilServant]

The dress code at my high school was a simple two-stage test:

1: Are you wearing clothes?

2: Is half (or more) of the class spending more time looking at you than the teacher and/or their desk?

If the answers were 1 - yes and 2 - no, they didn't care.

[Rhywun]

And nothing else happened?!

[UnCivilServant]

You showed up, so they got their state dollars, it didn't matter if you learned anything.

[Rich]

Bring back the Dunce Cap!

[UnCivilServant]

...for the administrators!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Why do they take a good idea and make it retarded? The idea of dress codes, or even school uniforms, is fine by me. If a student violate a dress code, send them home or have them go the the naughty-kids classroom. But these guys want you to wear a ridiculous t-shirt.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

With that hair, and the DRESS CODE VIOLATION T-shirt, I would think she belongs in a rock video by Twisted Sister.

[Almanian!]

What, third time lucky going through this on HyR.

Wow. For magazine called REASON...

It was SO much better when Postrel was around to hate on the HyR commenters...

[userve32]

Sometimes you jsut have to roll with it dude.

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[jmomls]

Wow, nothing says "TAKE US SERIOUSLY AS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT" than harping on about some goofball who couldn't find her pants to wear that day.

Whoop-de-doo.

[Acosmist]

Yep.

[Anomalous]

Is this like slut-shaming?

[DWC]

Things have changed so much since back in the day when I was in school. Late sixties, early seventies - girls routinely wore the mini-est mini skirts you can imagine. Skirts routinely stopped just at the crotch. I think I damaged my neck straining to get panty peeks and lord knows it was tough to concentrate with all of the naked legs and thighs.