Nov 17, 2005 15:29
i woke up feeling nervous about wearing a skirt to school. my stomache felt as if it were playing rockem sockem robots with my intestines. once i put the skirt on i felt a little better, my stomache had started to calm down. this feeling of nervousness wasnt the only thing that i felt, i was a bit excited too because i knew that this day would not be a steriotypical day for me. when i got to school my fear started kicking in again, what I was afaid of I dont know. i started walking into school from the parking lot thinking to myself, I could just turn around and take off the skirt and just lie about wearing it, but i didnt, i kept on walking. I saw a group of my friends i walk into the circle. nobody notices. then my friend steven says "i hope youre wearing shorts under that." i smile and show him that i am. then other people notice and start to laugh. david comes over and says that its sexy.i explain to them why i wore it. i go into fritzs room and show him. he just stood there and shook his head with a big ole grin on his face. i head off for another section of school. i received many strange looks along they way but i dont know who those people are so i just smile, it was quite funny some of the reactions i received. i see nathan and nick. i go up to them and nick loved it, nathan just stood there and laughed. when i was walking to the gym coach aaron was standing in front of the boys locker room, he saw the skirt and just shook his head in disaproval. after p.e. i get back into the skirt. many weird looks and name calling in the locker room but i dont care. theyre allowed to have their oppinions.i walk outside and show some of my friends what i wore and explain why. jimmy after hearing why i wore it said it was "a good reason" and he'd do the same thing for his sister. while robert thought it was "very strange". i head to my second period class and see some of my friends along the way, i show them and they laugh. i took some pics with them and headed off to my second class. i walk into the class room, again nobody notices. then the people around me started to notice and were like " why are you wearing a skirt?" i briefly explained why then the pledge of allegiance started over the tv. the teacher mrs futch noticed my outfit. she called me up to her desk, and said to me "you cant wear that" i ask why, she said" you just cant" i asked if it was breaking the dress code and she was like i dunno.while she and i were having this conversation some of he boys in the room were saying "hey you fairy yeah you, the queer" or coughing fag. she didnt have a school handbook. she said " im gonna have to send you up to the office" i started explaining why i wore it to her and the girls that sat around the teachers desk. the girls thought it was an excellent reason and i had a good point about why guys cant wear skirts but girls can wear guy shorts. i go up to the office thinking " o boy, wtf have i gotten myself into now." i enter the office, the other students in there give me a strange look but i just ignore them.i go up to the desk and tell them why i was sent up there. the student workers thought my reasoning for wearing the skirt was an excellent one, even admirable for my love of my sister. i go into mrs sheffields office, and she told me how i cant wear it because its a "distraction of the process of education"i explain thats not why mrs futch sent me up there and my motive for wearing a skirt. she just kept on saying how its not about my sexuality its about disrupting the class. then she and i go to see mr smith, the assistant principal, and hes saying the same thing that mrs sheffield was saying. how its a disruption to the class. so i agree to take it off and they send me back to class.
all throught the period i just sat there thinking about how wrong that is, that a girl can wear guy shorts, but a guy cant wear a skirt. it was a very conservative(more conservative than others that were in class) skirt it came past my knees. it was wrong how they could descriminate against a guy because what he was wearing wasnt "the norm". so i thought about what they said, they said it was a disruption of the class, so i decided to wear it to lunch. the bell that tells b lunch to go back to class rang, that means i have three minutes before i can go to lunch. i started putting on the skirt. my teacher mrs hall covered her eyes and started saying "NO NO NO NO NO NO" i was like what? she said "if i see you in that skirt ill write you up. take it off". by the time she and i were done arguing i had just taken the skirt off and the second bell rang. so right after i took it off i put it right back on and headed outside, as nervous as i was when i first woke up. I walk over to my friends table outside underneath a tree and sit down. some of them look at me with questioning faces but for most of them seeing a guy in a skirt, or something similar, isnt a weird occurance. I head inside the cafeteria and sit down at a table with some other friends of mine and the girl to my left looks over and burst out in laughter. the people at the table dont know why shes laughing then i stand up at the table and show them all. they all think its quite funny, and then i explain why and they think its cool. i move over to my regular table and my friend carly started breaking out into immediate laughter also. then i explain to them why i wore the skirt. after we are done eating i get out of my chair to leave. as im walking towards the door i hear mr. smith yell. "hey you! come here!" i know he's yelling at me but i keep on walking as if he's not yelling at me. before i get outside an administrator catches me and says "mr smith wants to see you" i think to myself " ah here it goes" i walk towards him with a grin on my face, for i know what i have done. before i had to remove the skirt in the office i was only wearing it as a favor for my sister, but after that i was doing it to prove a point, and question gender roles. i walk over there and coach aaron is standing next to him and says to me "boy i told you that skirt would get you into trouble" mr smith says to me "son why are you wearing that skirt?" i start explaining to him why and he says "i know thats why, but why are you wearing after i told you to take it off?" i reply " the only reason i had to remove the skirt was because it disrupted class, but at lunch im not in class, there is no learing process to disrupt." he replied to me "i know yorue doing it for a good reason but im gonna have to give you a work detail, i dont wanna be the bad guy, but youre making me do this." i ask him "what happens if i dont take it off?" he replys "you'll be suspended." there was a silence. i stood there contemplated the pros and cons of resisting, but decided to choose the work detail because i dont know how my parents would react to me getting suspended. then i take it off and ask when i have to serve my work detail.he says "any day you want, we do them mondays and wednesdays" i said "allright, thanks" then walk back to my table where my friends had gathered again. carly comes running up saying "put that fucking skirt back on, right fucking now joshua schmucker. this is no longer about helping jessie this is about descrimination and injustice." i tell her "i cant, id rather have take the work detail, whether or not i put it back on itll be unfair. id rather get the lesser of two punishments." then for the next five minutes we all sat around the table discussing how unfair and unjust this is. mr tucker the principal walked by and i started asking him questions like "why cant i wear a skirt? why cant guys wear a skirt if a girl can wear guys shorts? why is it wrong, what makes it wrong? why isnt it norm?" i just kept ofn bombarding him with questions he could not truthfully answer. after he left there was talk of a boycott and protest at the table.i kept saying how we need to learn what they can get us in trouble for and what they cant. and thats where i am now. learning as much about the power they have, and how far i can push the boundaries. i plan on writing a letter to the board of education, questioning why guys cant wear skirts and asking them to make it legal or at least say thats they can not be worn in the dress code because their rules were very