It’s unfortunate that school officials can’t see how pulling so many girls out of class is more distracting than someone wearing a skirt that may or may not be four inches above the knee, and how unfair it is not to enforce the same rule on guys, ESPECIALLY when it’s 90 degrees outside.
As for the school district: They stand by their actions. “That code has been enforced all year long,” Perris said. “On the last week of school, that should not have come as a surprise to anyone.”
But some students who were cited for violations claim that the school was singling out girls who weren’t even violating the dress code.
It was two days before graduation when students were taken and escorted by campus security to the office for On Campus Intervention (OCI) for dress code violations, where they had to wait to be brought clothes that meet dress code requirements. The regional school board spokesperson, Karen Perris, confirmed the events to Yahoo Canada.
Female students also feel the school is targeting girls unfairly with their dress code. While Murrieta’s dress code for girls is very specific, there are very few rules for boys. The dress code only explicitly bans bandanas, sagging pants, and tank-style shirts exposing underarms. Perris told Yahoo news that “you don’t typically find boys wearing leggings or skirts, so that’s why it’s different,” but based on a picture one student posted to Twitter, it looks like a boy wore the shortest shorts of all to school that day.
Most students were cited for wearing skirts or dresses that were too short. But while Perris says that only 25 girls were cited for dress code violations, students claim it was more like 60. One student uploaded a video of all the girls who were dress-coded on their way to OCI, and there definitely were a lot of girls, most of whom don’t seem to be wearing anything particularly revealing.
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