(Gay) Student Banned From Wearing Tuxedo In School Yearbook Picture

[matcom]

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FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. -- A north Florida high school student is being told she can't appear in the yearbook wearing a tuxedo.

Clay County school officials stood by their decision banning the photo.

Fleming Island High School's principal pulled Kelli Davis' picture because she was dressed in boy's clothes.

About 200 people attended a school board meeting Thursday night. More than half of the 24 people who spoke supported the teen, who is openly gay.

The teen's mother has asked the school board to reverse the principal's decision and apologize for firing the yearbook editor, who refused to take the photo out after her adviser told her to.

School officials say sexual preference is not the issue. They say because Davis didn't follow Fleming Island High's rules, she won't appear in the yearbook.

http://www.wftv.com/education/4232606/detail.html

[Postmanx]

1. If the school has dress code for yearbook photos

and it is evenly applied, who cares? Also, what does her being gay have to do with anything?

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Rules? There are rules for appearing in a yearbook. If she wore a boy's

sweater and didn't tell anyone, would she have still been excluded? That's just wrong.

[Parche]

3. photo

Republican censorship again

[miss_kitty]

4. Damn I have a woman's tuxedo she could have worn

then she would not have broken any rules.

[sui generis]

7. I wasn't aware that Tuxedoes are "mens clothes"

Please show me the rule book.

I'd like to see it in print because I have some questions for the author.

Are there women in the yearbook who wear jeans to school? Aren't those "men's" clothes? How do jeans differ from Tuxedos in qualification?

[miss_kitty]

15. Well my tux-like ensemble has buttons on the left side

while hers MUST'VE had them on the right. A glaring diff, don't you agree? and positively shocking! :eyes:

[CBGLuthier]

5. Here is an article with the dress code

http://www.news4jax.com/education/4231174/detail.html

Kelli Davis, 18, had her senior class photo taken in a tuxedo top and bow-tie outfit provided for boys rather than the gown-like drape and pearls provided for girls. The school's principal decided it could not appear in the yearbook because she didn't follow the dress code.

[Misunderestimator]

9. Now THAT dresscode is preposterous!!

I wouldn't have been CAUGHT DEAD in a drape and pearls in a HS yearbook. Wow... it's like we're back in the 1950s there.

[underpants]

6. They told me that the high heels would make me too tall for the picture

Damn maybe they had other reasons.

[Misunderestimator]

8. My god... an actress can wear a tux to the Oscars, but god forbid

we let a girl wear a tux in high school. Sooooo... lemme see... any girl wearing boys' clothes (that would include trousers and shirts I would imagine) will not appear in the yearbook... riiiiiight, it's not about her homosexuality ... of course not. :eyes:

Good for that editor for standing on principle.

[Misunderestimator]

10. Her parents ROCK... I totally missed this part:

"While the board's ruling will keep the photo from appearing with other senior pictures, it will appear in the yearbook. Kelli's parents bought a two-page ad in the back of the book for $700, which will feature the picture."

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. That is awesome!

n/t

[Q3JR4]

13. Yes!

To her parents, :yourock:!

It's wrong that they had to pay $700, but I would have done it just to stick it to them.

[ET Awful]

11. Where I went to school, we would've gotten a huge group of people

together, and we all would've switched just to really piss off the principal :)

Half the school would've been "cross-dressing" in the year book, and that included the varsity football team :)

Then again, I went to a weird school :).

[mark414]

14. "sexual preference"

what a bunch of idiots