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“You can Wear Leggings — Not Like That!”
There is one school in Scott County, Kentucky, that doesn’t allow leggings. It’s Scott County Middle School.
The principal decided to let girls wear leggings on Friday in February, as long as they abided by other rules of the dress code and had a long top over them.
Fair?
So, what happened?
200. 200. 200.
What happened was that all of the girls wore leggings…and then got lined up to have their tops measured.
Scott County Middle School is in Georgetown, the county seat of Scott County. The county has a population of about 47,000.
What I can’t find is how many students are in the school, but between 100 and 200 girls were dress coded.
I refuse to believe that many of them were simply not following “other aspects of the dress code.”
No, this was much more likely about teachers not wanting to allow the leggings days in the first place.
School district officials claimed it was about “improved communications.”
But pulling every single girl who chose to wear leggings after being told it was fine to measure them? Arguing that they weren’t actually thrown out of school (many were picked up by their parents, crying).
This was entrapment, plain and simple. This was a school saying yes you can and then no you can’t when they actually did it.
On middle school girls.
When will we stop treating girls like this?