She said she was then pulled out of class for distracting male students when a boy laughed and told his friends that she wasn't wearing a bra. Lizzy Martinez, a junior at Braden River High School in Bradenton, Florida, went to school braless because she didn't want straps to irritate a bad sunburn. The shirt Lizzy Martinez was wearing when she was allegedly pulled out of class. I should be able to speak my opinion without being disciplined." "I believe in equality and women's rights.
I knew going forward with this would get backlash, but it was a risk I was willing to take because I believe that something should be changed," she said. "I spoke out because it was very degrading to keep getting pulled out of my education for something so silly. Mike Hawkins, the school's principal, told the CBC that " anyone needs approval to post anything around the school."
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Johnston was then suspended for breaking the dress code in protest. Both Johnston and Wood encouraged students to dress the way they wanted. Johnston hung posters up around the school with messages like "Stop objectifying women," which were swiftly taken down by the vice principal. Mallory Johnston and Grace Wood, students at Essex High School in Essex, Ontario, protested their school's policy of suspending girls whose bra straps were showing. In a follow-up Facebook post, McKinlay wrote that she spoke with the principal and other school board members and was "quite confident they are addressing the situation." "But why should she have to worry about dressing a certain way to curtail a boy's potential behavior? So, like, it's her fault if the boy touches her because of what she was wearing? A boy's potential inability to control his hormones warrants my daughter's inability to attend her classes today and miss valuable curriculum?" "Perhaps she should have worn a different pair of jeans," McKinlay wrote. McKinlay acknowledged that her daughter did violate the school's dress code, but called out the double standard of "sexism" and "victim blaming" of telling women to dress a certain way to help men control themselves. The student's mother, Palm Beach County Mayor Melissa McKinlay, wrote in a Facebook post that a school official "told that she needed to consider the guys in her class and their hormones when choosing her wardrobe" and called for the administrator's suspension. The Palm Beach Post reported that a Forest Hill High School student was removed from class and given an in-school suspension for wearing ripped jeans that violated the school's dress code. Not the ripped jeans that McKinlay's daughter was wearing. The school reached out to the parents and apologized that same day." After further review of our dress code policies, we realized that the shirt did not violate our policies. "Students are at the heart of everything we do. The Department of Defense Education Activity public affairs officer, Jade Fulce, released the following statement, ABC News reports: She said on Facebook that she "felt like the shirt represented categories of children who are marginalized, and she will be the one that has their backs even when those teachers and admins don't." Further, she said she was going to "celebrate bravery and her values." Frank Ocean wearing the same T-shirt while performing at a music festival.Įmery, a seventh grader in Fort Bragg, N.C., wore a T-shirt to school with the words " Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet?" Per Yahoo, teachers asked her to cover it up with a sweatshirt, claiming the text was offensive.Įmery's mother, Katie Moore Smith, disagreed.
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