(WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas principal says a video shown to students about the dress code “missed the mark.”
Flowermound Marcus High School Principal Will Skelton sent a letter to parents Friday apologizing for showing the video that didn’t mention dress codes for boys and only addressed girls wearing gym shorts. He also said the song choice in the video wasn’t a good one. M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” was the featured tune.
“Yesterday we showed a dress code video that featured only female dress code violations, and was accompanied by a poor song choice,” Skelton said in the video. “Construction in and around the campus prevented us from holding student orientation, which is typically accompanied by a fashion show that demonstrates what to wear, and what not to wear. We believed a video would be a good way to replace the fashion show, but this video absolutely missed the mark.”
Skleton said that he is “a firm believer that when you make a mistake, you own it, you apologize, and you make it right.”
For the entire letter click here.
The video is catching grief on social media.
Today my school was shown this video. So sad how ONLY girls are shown as the violators. I understand why my school has a dresscode, but what about the boys who wear shorts, or show their shoulders? It’s 2018…Why are we still over-sexualizing teen girls? pic.twitter.com/fCXymYAIEG
— cat (@catmoring) August 16, 2018
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