[Hemingway's Ghost]

Why aren't lacy bras the devil's bras? Should schools make girls lift up their shirts to make sure girls aren't wearing Wonderbra's or other push up bras or water bras, etc?

Lacy bras aren't the devil's bras---sheer ones from Victoria's Secret are. And come now, schools shouldn't make girls lift up their shirts to police their bras.

The issue here was one of short skirts and thong panties at a school dance. Even though the story doesn't tell the backstory, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what was probably happening before all this went down: the school probably had a couple of instances at school dances where short skirts over thongs led to a lot of visible ass and a lot of raging hormones and inappropriate public behavior and all that kind of happy horsesh*t---hell, I was a teenager less than 15 years ago myself, I know what goes on. Stuff, in fact, that may be actionable and the school held liable for (use your imagination).

So the VP or whomever probably set and circulated a policy forbidding thongs under short skirts at the next dance. NBFD.

The VP was probably overzealous if in fact she did lift skirts to perform a panty check, but she's certainly w/i her rights as a school administrator to make that sort of rule and enforce it. See general_re's posts on this thread for more info.

[tomkat]

...hell, I was a teenager less than 15 years ago myself...

then THAT is my problem with all this !
[slaps forehead]

when i was a teenager, girls wore those hideous platform shoes
that put all but the sub-4 footers out of reach, thong or no ...

[general_re]

Yessir, that's about the size of it, I think. Ideally, the principal probably should have taken them into a locker room or something to spare them some embarrassment, but the school was within its legal rights to do what it did. It's a boneheaded thing to do, but not everything that is stupid is illegal, nor is everything that is legal a good idea. This'll blow over, I think.