Pinellas (Fla) schools say cheerleading uniforms are dress code violations

Tampa Bay Times ^ | 8/26/2013

[LucianOfSamasota]

No worries.

The Muslim-in-Chief will have them wearing burqas soon.

[An.American.Expatriate]

This thread is useless without pictures ...

[NonValueAdded]

Thank goodness I grew up in the era of the miniskirt.

[KarlInOhio]

Letting the girls wear their uniforms creates a double standard, he said. The district's dress code requires that shirts have sleeves and skirts fall to at least mid-thigh.

I don't know what their rules are for pants, but I expect a lot of the school's sports uniforms would be out of dress code for the classroom with tank tops and shorts.

Sorry, just not feeling sorry for the cheerleaders.

[ClearCase_guy]

"Doesn't matter what you're doing; it's wrong."

It's all about control.

[Autonomous User]

This isn’t about a dress code. It is about eliminating and not recognizing student achievement. No one is special. Everyone is the same. Lets not keep score at that football game either. There are no losers....Well....except the School Administrators.

[cincinnati65]

Brought to you by the same school district, where policy says that bus drivers sit by and watch students beat other students for narc’ing on them.

[DManA]

I’m sure swimming suits would fail the test too but would you have the swimming team wear a 1900’s wool suit?

[Lou L]

Just as a football player or a gymnast wouldn't wear their uniforms to class, perhaps cheerleaders shouldn't be in theirs, either.

It seems like a nice warm-up suit might be appropriate. I would think most cheer groups have these anyway.

[Menehune56]

[hosepipe]

Jogging suits are nice too but there is a time and place for everything..
The man needs to have a talk with his “Twit” daughter..
And the teachers(male and female) and janitor can stop it with the “Cheer leader” fantasys...

[Menehune56]

Add a cheerleader exemption to the dress code, logical solution, no big deal...

[PeteB570]

When I went to HS the football and basketball players wore their jersey over their regular shirt on game day....

And the cheerleaders wore their’s.

[Jeff Chandler]

[NEMDF]

It might actually be about a dress code, IMHO. And I think it is a good thing that the school is banning sleeveless tops, short skirts, and is also trying to eliminate a potential double standard. The cheerleaders can figure out something else. Wear the tops with a shirt under them and jeans.

[Still Thinking]

Countryside principal Gary Schlereth said he is working with the cheerleading team to find a compromise.

Instead of a "compromise", how about just a total capitulation -- to common sense? Wouldn't that be more equitable?

[llevrok]

I agree with the warm up suit idea. Arms and legs covered. Problem solved.

[chessplayer]

If you had a daughter that was a cheerleader in high school, you wouldn’t care if adult males were ogling her like a slab of meat at a game? The uniforms they wear today are far more revealing than they were when I was in hs. And the routines they perform are far more sexualized.

[RitaOK]

Modesty is now a point of ridicule. Enforcing rules of modest dress in the class room is now counter cultural, after years and years of increasingly immodest fashion trends, bordering on circus wear.

This is a small start, but it is a start.

Now, if the churches would only dare to address the Sunday style show, used for promoting cleavage and limbs, boat shoes, deck shorts and tank tops. Abomination is here and we hardly notice, and certainly never protest.