Teen Boy Told To Dress Like a Man or Go Home

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Unless they make the rule for boys AND girls, there is no way this is unacceptable.

This poor kid. He left his parents to be himself; you know that wasn’t easy. He asked ahead at the school before classes started… how many teens are this self-aware and confident? He rocks.

Expressing yourself is not a right. What if he liked to express himself by not wearing anything at all? Or wearing t-shirts with anti-gay slogans? His outfits are meant to provoke and shock. If he really wanted to dress like a girl he would wear dresses and things the other girls are allowed to wear to school. Many of the public schools here have dress codes or require uniforms. Rules are there for a reason. His outfits are distracting. Girls dont wear pink wigs and big hats to school. This jerk thinks he will get famous or rich from this.

I think he should be allowed to wear tight jeans, or dresses. But I don’t think he should be able to wear the hats and pink wigs. In my public school, we were not allowed to wear hats. I think that is reasonable. Is a wig a hat? I certainly wouldn’t have been able to wear a clown wig all day at school, is a pink wig too much different? I only think you should be allowed to wear a wig if you need to medically. He should just grow his hair long if that’s “who he is.” But as for dresses and high heels, whatever. As long as it’s reasonable and in-line with what other girls are allowed to wear, that’s fine. It’s just clothing. To comment on “All’s” post anti-gay t shirts spread hate and that’s different than a dress.

Talk about having a pair of balls, that Jonathon sure has them. Those school administration idiots never learned a thing from “Columbine”. Oppression in society is everywhere. With brave guys like Jonathon walking the earth, maybe one day we can all be free to be and show our true selves.

Please do some basic proof-reading of your work before you publish it. First, you spell the kid’s name as “Johnathon” at the beginning of the article, then “Johnathan” later in the article. Secondly, the sentence “if he could wear heals and wigs to school”, “heals” is the verb “to heal (medically)”. The word you are looking for is “heels,” as in the type of shoes. Sheesh! Your grammar teachers in school must be doing a face-palm right now. Moron.

Heels, not heals. Dumbass.

Please do some basic proof-reading of your work before you publish it. First, you spell the kid’s name as “Johnathon” at the beginning of the article, then “Johnathan” later in the article. Secondly, the sentence “if he could wear heals and wigs to school”, “heals” is the verb “to heal (medically)”. The word you are looking for is “heels,” as in the type of shoes. Sheesh! Your grammar teachers in school must be doing a face-palm right now. Moron.

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All I can say is only in Georgia! I don’t knock a person for who they are or wish to be. All I say is, God is the only one they have to answer to, that is a fact. Homosexuality is a sin but if he wants to be a sinner that’s his choice, he has to live with the consequences of those acts. A child at that age I feel is just confused, but if he’s gay he’s gay for whatever the reason. If he wants to wear a dress let him wear it, if he wants to wear a wig (not pink, blue, purple, etc. or any unnatural color in school) let him wear it. But I will say, the school is not denying him his education, he is denying his own education. They went too far by saying he should dress like a man, but school is a place for learning not a fashion show, drag queen show, or club you should dress appropriately. That goes for the saggy jeans, yuch! It’s obviously more important to him to dress like a girl, which he is not, than to get an education. Standing up for his rights by not going to school is hurting noone but himself. Stand up for yourself another way. What was worn was a bit too much for school, it’s school not a drag show. There is a time and place for everything and people should be respectful of that. When the school said yes I am sure they were not aware he would be wearing pink wigs, but the question remains if a “real” girl had on a pink wig would there have been something said? Don’t know. Any way gays, homosexuals, and transgenders get away with alot of crap down here, but society caters to that. Gay parades, honestly that is nothing to celebrate but they can knock themselves out. I feel sorry for the people who are that way due to them being molested or grow up feeling confused abut their sexuality but when you choose it I have a problem. People now don’t care about the laws of God and just do all kinds of sinful acts then want special treatment. I give none. Don’t get me wrong I have friends that are gay but it’s their soul that will burn for it.

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He can quit school, but at the end of the day he will just be a teenage boy who dropped out of school because he couldn’t dress like a girl. No education, and we know how important an education is, more important than choosing not to get one cause you can’t dress how you want. School is an institution and there are rules. Yeah you have freedom of choice, but just as your boss tell you to wear business attire and optional jeans on the week end. Guess what, you abide by that or not get a paycheck and loose your home and car. You can’t walk in an establishment and say I don’t care if you say no shoes no shirt no service but i’m gonna walk in barefoot and shirtless nd you better serve me. No, no shoes, no shirt, no service. Period.

Settle down, ‘mature’.
He may or may not be gay; it’s actually irrelevant. Kids who don’t go to school are sometimes dropouts, but sometimes they are home-schooled or educated through a long-distance program. And to your final point: The school told him he would be permitted. he did the responsible thing and asked in advance, and now the school is not only going back on their own word, but doing so in a gender-normative and wholly offensive way. Define MANLY for me.

The school went so far as to have a police office pull him out of class to talk to him about his safety. Interestingly, the police didn’t talk to the kids they considered a threat to that safety.

Okay - I am sick of all the lies this kid is spreading about our wonderful school. I am a member of the executive PTSA board at North Cobb High School and am very familiar with the “Jonathon” situation. Our leftist liberal media needs to “get it right” and quit spreading untruths! Jonathon was given every opportunity that any child at North Cobb is given. Administrastion was very accepting of him and cared absolutely nothing about the way he chose to dress - that is until he showed up at school in a pink Hello Kitty wig and a big white bow. There is nothing natural about that - when I think of a pink wig, honestly, I invision a clown in a circus - not someone who is right, left, black, white, pink, gay, straight, transexual or anything like that. All I see is someone who is desperate for attention!No child in a public school would be allowed to go through the day in a pink wig because, duh, it is a total distraction to the educatory process! Teenagers are not to the point where they can filter out such absurdities as pink hair and focus on the more important classroom education that their teachers are working toward. Therefore, any reasonable person ought to be able to see that this was not a “cross-dressing” issue - instead, it is a school dress code issue. NO child could have gotten away with this! Also, our principal, assistant principal and all of our administrators are extremely caring people. They NEVER told Jonathon to “dress more manly” or to resort to home-schooling. They merely objected to his pink wig! These comments that are being published all over the news are all “Jonathon fabrications.” He is weaving a web of lies through our sensationalist media. And they are stupid enough to let him get by with it!

Meh. Expressing oneself inside a classroom has limits. A student’s right to self-expression ends when it infringes on other students’ rights to learn. This kid seems like a bit of attention whore, imo, who likes to push boundaries. From looking at the clip posted on feministing it seems like everything he was wearing between his neck and his ankles would’ve been fine with the school. The shoes, though, are a safety hazard, plain and simple, and probably noisy as heck when he walks. Hats (excluding headscarves and skullcaps worn for religious reasons) are usually prohibited inside school buildings, for the primary reason that they are distracting and/or considered disrespectful. Honestly, if he tried to wear that hat in the classroom, he’d have to be in the back row, because no one behind him could see the chalkboard! Yes, he should dress in accordance with his gender identity. No, he should not be allowed to wear hats and wigs for nonmedical or nonreligious reasons, because that is a generally well-agreed on rule, and no one, male or female, should wear those shoes to school.

I always wonder why people care so much what kids wear to school. If we didn’t care so much, maybe there would be more diversity in appearance, and the teenagers wouldn’t have as much to freak out over? I don’t care what the kids wear, I care if they’re safe and learning.

Comments I love what he or she wants to be . AM 100% behind his clothing please give him a chance. He not hurting you . love gina

Our collective addiction to conformity is the factor that will eventually be our downfall.