Margot Mifflin » school dress code http://margotmifflin.com Mon, 14 May 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fashion Police Brutality http://margotmifflin.com/2010/04/fashion-police-brutality/ http://margotmifflin.com/2010/04/fashion-police-brutality/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:11:34 +0000 margot.mifflin http://margotmifflin.com/?p=1422 What’s more astonishing? A) Seventeen Alabama students were paddled for violating their school dress code on prom night; B) Corporal punishment is still legal in 20 states; C) Over 200,000 public school students are paddle-whacked each year; or D) Mainstream media coverage of A doesn’t mention B or C. Thank you, Jezebel, for putting the story in perspective.

And kudos to fashion offender Erica DeRamus, below, who just said no to the paddle–and got suspended. “This is not the 1940s,” DeRamus told Fox News. “We don’t take corporal punishment now.”

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