Uh...what? Maybe I'm just a degenerate product of the End Days, but to my eye she looks cute, clean-cut, with a slight hint of academic bohemian that might blossom and be age-appropriate for me in...oh...20 years. ;-)

Methinks the principal has some serious issues.

If that girl dressed like that at my kids former Junior High, which was an extremely conservative Junior High about 100 miles from where the author lives, the principal would have been thrilled.

I suspect the principal was like my oldest daughter's vice-principal (my daughter got detention for dyeing the tips of her hair blue--it was supposed to be black, but her dumb friend bought the wrong dye) but it wasn't about the hair, but the fact that my daughter liked to tick him off and he knew I'd back her up if he tried to punish her without cause.

I think she looks cute, and pretty conservative. There must be something else going on with that school.

My mom got called for my clothes once. She was PISSED-at the school. You could see about one inch of my stomach if I moved the right way. Oh, the horrors.

BTW, I do think incidents like these are adults projecting their own sexual attitudes and fetishes to kids. I've also long observed that the people most critical of sexuality seem to have the most perverted minds. I seriously have heard more perverted shit being projected onto films or someone's behavior from conservative Christians than ANYONE else (including my own mind, which can be a wonderland of perversion, but even I never thought of some of things these critics have.)

Fave comment comes from somebody called "bettyfokker" and appears at the May 18, 2:43 PM mark:

I regret to inform you that your daughter's school is being run by a twatwaffle. My condolences.

I really, really don't want to know what that is.

I read that the issue was that dress code stated that skirts must be below the knee. Though I'm sure like most junior high rules they are selectively enforced. I agree it's s stupid rule but it has nothing to do with the principle being a conservative just a run of the mill school admin nit wit.

One of many reasons NOT to do public school.

Uggh. What an ugly belt. Still that is inappropriate? What the heck is that 1960's Korea where teachers and officials and yep police measured skirt with a ruler. To short back home to change. For some boys it was the hair, little too long and buzz cat then and there.

Really I think some teachers/adults need to learn when to raise a stink, when to ignore, when to give a warning.

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I was in Junior High in the mid-sixties when a boy could get suspended if his hair touched his collar. That skirt would not have been a problem then.

Its Tooele Ut, where the rules have always been selectivly enforced. That jr high school has always been oddly run

Seriously, only a guy like Warren Jeffs could look at a 13-year old girl dressed like this and think she was being provocative. Maybe the FLDS has a branch in Tooele?

This is so dumb

The only person throwing around phrases like "provocatively dressed" and "harlot" is the parent. The principal said the hemline was too short by half an inch. (Comment #2 posted by the writer). It's a dress code violation and it doesn't take a perverted mind to look at her and say "That skirt skims the top of her kneecaps, just a bit too short for the rules there."

In the same comment the writer says "It is interesting that the school yearbook came out the same day as her incident. The yearbook had many photos of students with much higher hems on their skirts or pants. The yearbook photos raise the issue of selective enforcement."

Yeah, or it made the principal suddenly aware of how non-enforced the dress code was and it was time to do something about it. And over there in the lunch line is a girl with a hem that's just a bit too high.

The girl was pulled out of classes and put in a office that has a large glass window where her peers can see her. She wasn't suspended or expelled or called a provocative harlot. At least not until her dad started writing a hyperbolic piece about the whole thing.

Right. The school administrator in one of the densest population of mormons in the state per capita decided to pull the one athiest girl out of class at the end of the day on a dresscode violation a week or two before school ended. Becasue cracking down on graduating students days before graduation would send a message to the rest of the student body about what they should and should not wear next year

When I was in high school in the 70s, every spring our principal would give a grand lecture about how just because it was warm, we had to maintain our standards and dress appropriately. He would threaten suspensions to those who didn't listen, but never actually suspended anyone. I've long felt that despite his conservative bearing, education was always more important to him and thus he was extremely tolerant of behavior that would get most students suspended today.

The only thing I can think of is the hem of the skirt may have to be below the knees.

@Elle the principal's office likely had windows so on one could be accused of rape or assault (touching a student on the shoulder to snap them back to reality and stop a fight between students is assault now).

My senior high school years were Sept 82 - May 85. The hemlines on skirts at the time were mid-calf. The guys liked that, most of the cute, preppy girls wore them.

To me that outfit was totally appropriate for school, business, or an evening out. The principal and the school needs to get a grip on reality.

@ Old RPM Daddy.

Thanks for the laugh. Oh boy I found that funny.

"The school administrator in one of the densest population of mormons in the state per capita decided to pull the one athiest girl out of class..."

I actually find it harder to believe the principal is aware of the religious leaning of every student in their building than I do believing the administration is spotty about enforcing dress codes.

The problem is she's a junior high student with boobs.

I had this problem in junior high, too. I was one of the few students with boobs. Things that were considered appropriate on others were considered whorish on me.

That's the way it will be till the other students catch up.

NicoleK, your comment made me laugh. My oldest daughter was in that situation in a very major way. In the seventh grade some boy snapped her bra strap; she turned around and kneed in him the groin, dropping him to the ground. Needless to say, nobody ever snapped her bra strap again.

I punched a guy who copped a feel! With the same results