[EODGUY]

I'm actually surprised by your perspective on this issue, XS. The examples you cited are obvious and do not require that an adult in a position of authority physically lift up (in this case closely synonymous with removing) a young girls skirt in public to observe/display that girl's underwear.

Although the article does not indicate the specifics of the school dress code, the actions of the vice principal were intrusive. If there were obvious violations of the dress code, the students should have been escorted from the dance.

If inappropriate dress is suspected, investigation of the matter is the responsibility of the parent and if there is a disagreement regarding the parent's opinion of appropriate dress versus the stated parameters outlined in the dress code, the school would prevail and the student would not be allowed to attend the dance.

Please tell me that you see the difference between school administators enforcing obvious violations of the dress code versus conducting an intrusive/intimate search in public view?

I respect you and would request that you respond on the thread or privately, but please personalize this issue and consider your assessment if your daughter was searched in such a manner in a school where you did not have complete faith in the staffperson conducting the search.

Sincerely,

EODGUY

[xsmommy]

, girls who arrived at the dance wearing short skirts were immediately asked: "What kind of underwear do you have on?" When Garvik's daughter red-facedly announced that she was wearing thong underwear she was told to "go home and put on appropriate underwear," according to Garvik. Teal's daughter made it in and claims to have witnessed faculty lifting the skirts of girls to assure that the offending underwear was going nowhere near the dance floor.

EOD, i think this section of the article right here is what determined my opinion on this.

#1.ONLY girls wearing short skirts were ASKED what kind of underwear they had on. NOT all girls, not girls with LONG skirts, just girls in SHORT skirts, who, if wearing thong underwear on the dance floor would be giving a free show.

#2. They were told to GO HOME AND PUT ON APPROPRIATE UNDERWEAR. that is a perfectly legitimate request to make of a student.

#3. THE PERSON who is claiming that the vice principal lifted the skirts, is the one causing the ruckus.

So, i happen to believe that this V.P. was aware of problems at previous dances, with girls wearing inappropriate undergarments AND SHORT SKIRTS (please note, that had they had thong underwear on and LONG SKIRTS, they were not asked about the type of underwear) and so she preemptively decided to police the issue in advance of them reaching the dance floor, but TARGETING girls in SHORT SKIRTS to ASK about the propriety of their underclothing. i have not a single problem with this.

As i said, i just came from a jr high dance, i know how those kids DRESS, i know how they behave on the dance floor. i was responsible for producing 7th grade parent chaperones to police this particular function and the Principal, who is a nun, was at the door, and while she would never presume to lift a skirt (and there is no PROOF that it was done here either!), in my view she is perfectly entitled to inquire about inappropriate underwear of a girl wearing an assbearing skirt!!!