Pinellas schools say cheerleading uniforms are dress code violations In a perfect world, every father would think his daughter is beautiful. David Fraser agrees. "Yeah, but she's actually beautiful," he says of his own daughter, 15-year-old Jeana. "I mean, she looks like a cheerleader
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Yes, because cheerleaders are the benchmark for beauty. Ugh.
I've never understood school dress codes re: size of clothing. Making sure no one wears t-shirts with obscene language or imagery, yeah, but short skirts? Tank-tops? Who gives a damn? I do think that it makes sense that, if girls are being cited for shirt skirts and the cheerleaders aren't, then the rules should be changed to make it more fair. But shaming the cheerleaders for wearing the outfits that the school picked for them, is not the way to do it. Readdressing the skirt length requirements all around is.
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"A parent looks at their son or daughter getting 'dress coded' for wearing something short, then they look at the cheerleading uniform and they say, 'What about that?' " Schlereth said.
While he explained away the uniforms as "spirit wear" in the past, Schlereth felt it wasn't fair anymore.
I don't see the big deal. Dress codes are only fair if they apply to everyone. Granted they are doing it in a weird way by going after bare arms first but cheerleaders shouldn't get special treatment.
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On the one hand, I am not here for the sexual double standard and a girl is a person of worth whether she's wearing a burqa or a bikini or nothing. On the other... time and place. I couldn't wear something as revealing as this uniform to work and that was in a pretty casual environment, and I think I'd get talked to about professionalism if I wore it to med school.
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I can wear jeans to class, but I would be expected to dress more formally were I presenting at a national meeting, say. My dress would be appropriate to each of those situations. To get closer to the scenario here, I did ballet and performed at times in just a leotard and tights - not school appropriate, but de rigeur for dancers, I don't see a huge issue with saying school wear should be more covered up, while the cheer uniform - which isn't as skimpy as some - is appropriate to that activity.
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it did really annoy me when I was in high school that everyone else was expected to wear skirts/shorts that were fingertip length or longer but cheerleaders were allowed to wear skirts so short their asses were hanging out.
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Also, a friend of mine who was a cheerleader tried to wear a miniskirt to school that was longer than her cheerleading skirt, and was told to change. She brought up the argument that it was longer than her cheerleading skirt, but was defeated in that the cheerleading outfit was only acceptable under the circumstances for which it was authorized for wear... whatever that means. >_>
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