Boy wears dress and heels to school, gets suspended

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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A 15-year-old boy has been suspended from school after wearing high heels and a dress to school as a part of a challenge laid down by his mother.

Sam Saurs, a ninth grader at Sedgwick Junior High School in Port Orchard, said he told his mother that wearing high heels wouldn't be that hard. Saurs' mother challenged him to try it and he accepted. To take it even further, he decided to wear a dress, too.

After Saurs showed up at school Wednesday in the dress and heels, the school suspended him for the remainder of the year. That suspension was later reduced to three days. But Saurs won't be allowed to go to the ninth grade dance or the class party at Wild Waves.

The South Kitsap School District said the issue has been resolved and would not make any further comment about the incident.

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[Guest]

that is a bunch of "dinodung" who the hell are these school "officials" ( if you can call them that) think they are, are they trying to punish the kid for crossdressing, by not letting him go to other events!! give me a break!!!

[radiodave]

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[legs777777]

Society should let people do what they want to without judging, I dont have a problem with that.

[heellover21]

why would you suspend somebody for that? why not send him home and make him change instead? what is the big deal anyway? some girls dress like guys. whats the dfference? there is nothing wrong with guys wearing heels.

[Histiletto]

The world is full of those who follow the prevalent attitudes and traditional thinking like sheep with no thought as to individual rights. Society's attitude is based on the idea that people are flawed and don't know enough to choose from their own desires about their appearance socially. When mankind first began clothing their countenance, they did it for protection from the elements that discomforted them. They already had items they wore or attached that signified their achievements, skills, affections, and/or things they wanted to be identified by. Then civilization took over the standardizing of these personal choices and decided who should have them. Each person's right to choose their own look or style of adornments was usurped. This initial action by society should be thought of as the origination of bullying. Since then, these attitudes have been promoted and fortifide by the social rules and laws until they became the standard ways society operates. The agency of individuals was trampled under by the wills of the empowered and by those that asserted their ideals and desires upon others. Hence the situation like the boy wearing a dress and heels to school. The standards of society are so ingrained, that any person's right to choose their own adronment isn't given any consideration, due to it becoming a non-factor in our social relationships. Hopefully, the activities like male heeling and other unstereotypical acts will help to restore these fundamental rights of personal agency to choose for ones self how we decide to attire socially. There will always be a sense of propriety for the acceptance of concepts relative to ones attitude and understanding, which keeps things somewhat in the focus of truth. When truths are hidden, propriety becomes unjust and cruel to the innocent. The title of crossdressing and other gender labels have been acknowledgements of human behavior, since mankind began. In the past few millenia, these have been modified and used to degrade people by those who are homophobic, because the standards can't account for the reasons men like the same things women have been stereotyped with and visa versa for women. Men and women are people with the same potential feelings, talents, and desires. They are not aliens to each other, but compliments for each other. Nature has given them specific processes to reproduce mankind and they are still individual human beings with asperations and dreams to be shared and achieved. The importance of individuals has been taken for granted and forgotten in most social dealings, but when each person that tactfully strives to make a difference in correcting flaws, they can sway others, even whole groups or communities to different perspectives.