Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app
Continue in app Continue in browser

BoredPanda Add post form topAdd Post
Tooltip close

The Bored Panda iOS app is live! Fight boredom with iPhones and iPads here.

Honor Student Gets Suspended, Banned From Graduation And Almost Arrested For Wearing This Shirt
User submission
41.4K
1.7M

Is This Shirt Too Sexy? This Honor Student Was Almost Arrested For Wearing It

ADVERTISEMENT

You’d imagine that a student with a grade point average of 4.4 and multiple scholarships would have to do something pretty extreme to get suspended from school for two weeks AND banned from their graduation, right? Wrong. Because this student from Hickory Ridge High School in Harrisburg, North Carolina just got suspended, and almost ARRESTED, for nothing more than wearing a shirt. It wasn’t emblazoned with cuss words. Nor did it contain offensive imagery. It was, as you can see below, just a normal-looking shirt, but her high school principal said it violated the Hickory Ridge dress code.

Summer was sitting in the cafeteria last week when the principal told her to cover the offending item of apparel with a coat. Despite Summer complying with the request, the principal, this time accompanied by the school security officer, then sent her to the control room to change her shirt entirely.

“The security guard was within five feet of me,” Summer told WCNC. “He had his hand on his gun. The principal said, ‘I’m gonna give you an ultimatum. We have tried to call your mother. You either come with me to the control room to change your shirt or we will arrest you.’” This time Summer refused and ended up being suspended for “insubordination.” She’s also been banned from all end-of-year events, which includes her own graduation. What do you think? Was the principal right to enforce the rules, or has she gone too far? Let us know in the comments below. (h/t: 22words)

Do you think there’s anything wrong with the shirt this girl is wearing?

Image credits: WCNC

ADVERTISEMENT

Apparently it violated her school’s dress code so severely that the girl, named Summer, got suspended

Summer, who has a 4.4 GPA, has also been banned from her own graduation!

Image credits: WCNC

“You either come with me to the control room to change your shirt or we will arrest you,” said the principal

Image credits: WCNC

“The security guard was within five feet of me,” said Summer. “He had his hand on his gun”

Image credits: WCNC

Needless to say, the internet was understandably outraged

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

See the video below for more information:

1.7Mviews

Share on Facebook
Dominyka Jurkลกtaitฤ—

Dominyka Jurkลกtaitฤ—

Author, Community member

Read more ยป

I'm a Panda bear and maybe should live in a zoo, eat leaves of bamboo, but I'd like to spend my time just posting for you!

Read less ยป
Dominyka Jurkลกtaitฤ—

Dominyka Jurkลกtaitฤ—

Author, Community member

I'm a Panda bear and maybe should live in a zoo, eat leaves of bamboo, but I'd like to spend my time just posting for you!

What do you think ?
Add photo comments
POST
Hans
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A school that has a security officer, actually: a security offer wiedling a gun, and the right to arrest people? A school principal who calls armed security when handling a calm girl? We live in sad times.

Hanna
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like this --- we will soon be like Iran and other middle eastern countries where dress codes are enforced for women. I wonder if they would have arrested a guy who's pant crotch was at his ankles and his butt crack was showing?

Load More Replies...
Paul K. Johnson
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Comon now.... this shirt makes it obvious that she's female. Once we allow young women to wear things like this around old male principals it's a slippery slope to allowing those same women to expose their ankles. You people just didn't think this through.

Shari H
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know you're joking, but they used the pronoun "she" when talking about the principal. Obviously old female principals are the lecherous ones...

Load More Replies...
Anne Madag
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's against in their school's rules, they should warn her first, at least she will know , not banning immediately .

William Christopher
Community Member
7 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

She denied her warning when she refused to go with the principle. Like the school said, she wasn't punished for the shirt, she was punished for the insubordination.

Load More Replies...
Load More Comments
Hans
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A school that has a security officer, actually: a security offer wiedling a gun, and the right to arrest people? A school principal who calls armed security when handling a calm girl? We live in sad times.

Hanna
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like this --- we will soon be like Iran and other middle eastern countries where dress codes are enforced for women. I wonder if they would have arrested a guy who's pant crotch was at his ankles and his butt crack was showing?

Load More Replies...
Paul K. Johnson
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Comon now.... this shirt makes it obvious that she's female. Once we allow young women to wear things like this around old male principals it's a slippery slope to allowing those same women to expose their ankles. You people just didn't think this through.

Shari H
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know you're joking, but they used the pronoun "she" when talking about the principal. Obviously old female principals are the lecherous ones...

Load More Replies...
Anne Madag
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's against in their school's rules, they should warn her first, at least she will know , not banning immediately .

William Christopher
Community Member
7 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

She denied her warning when she refused to go with the principle. Like the school said, she wasn't punished for the shirt, she was punished for the insubordination.

Load More Replies...
Load More Comments
Related on Bored Panda
Related on Bored Panda
Trending on Bored Panda
Also on Bored Panda