Mother angry after girls forced to wear T-shirts to school pool party

[Jazzy]

A mother decided to fight back against sexism when her son was invited to a school pool party which forced girls to follow strict clothing regulations.

Jennifer Smith, from Indianapolis, US, was outraged when her son brought home a permission slip for the party, which stated: ‘All girls must wear a non-white t-shirt over their swimsuit’.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Jennifer said she was ‘enraged’ by the rule.

‘Being a feminist and seeing things through that filter, I was just kind of enraged by that’, she said.

‘They’re saying little girls need to be ashamed of their bodies and cover themselves up.

And while she doesn’t have a daughter, Smith admitted that she wanted to set the right example for her son.

‘I have a little boy, I’m teaching him to think correctly, and this is contrary to what I’m teaching him’, she admitted.

Defending the regulation, the Principal of Rhoades Elementary said that the dress code was enforced after girls previously wore inappropriate swimwear.

‘Due to the varying sizes of students at this age, [making T-shirts mandatory] takes away the ability of kiddos making fun of others for wearing a shirt [since] everyone is required to wear one’, she wrote.

Do you see anything wrong that all girls must wear a non-white t-shirt over their swimsuit rule?

 

[DrLeftover]

How did those of us who now have gray hair ever survive a childhood where such a suggestion would have been laughed into the ground before it ever made it onto the permission slip?