Just when you think you’ve seen it all regarding schools being overly strict about what students can wear, a story like this comes along and leaves you shaking your head and wondering where all sanity has gone.
16-year-old Stephanie Dunn was recently sent home from Woodford County High School in Versailles, Kentucky, because she was wearing a shirt that showed her collarbone. Her collarbone!
Join me now as we intone it together: WTF?!
The principal of the school, Rob Akers, told Dunn and her mother that Stephanie’s collarbone was just far too distracting for the boys at the school. So what should Stephanie wear instead? A burka? That would probably please Principal Akers greatly.
So Stacie Dunn, Stephanie’s mother, decided to take to Facebook, and with perfectly directed anger she posted this:
“So this is my daughter at school today. I had to come to the school because according to her school principal what she is wearing is out of dress code and inappropriate for school. When I got there I found a group of female students standing in the office due to being out of dress code also. This is ridiculous! WOODFORD County High School and the principle have been enforcing a dress code where as girls can not show even there collar bones because it may distract their male class mates. This is ridiculous! Parents are being called away from their important jobs and students are missing important class time because they are showing their collarbones! Something needs to change! PLEASE SHARE MY POST! Something needs to change!”
Ms. Dunn also noted in her Facebook post:
“There is a video of the principal explaining why the dress code is they way it is that I am going to get a hold of… He basically says that boys are horny teenagers who can’t control their primal instincts and so it is up to the girls to keep covered so the boys aren’t distracted!”
Online friends did indeed locate the video, and you can see Mr. Akers explaining his bizarre reasoning below. Sounds to me like a classic case of projection: Akers is projecting his own twisted fantasies onto every other student at the school he oversees. If he wants to find the real source of the problem, he should look in the mirror.
