A Texas teen says he was suspended from his high school for wearing nail polish after returning for in-person classes.
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17-year-old Trevor Wilkinson is a senior at Clyde High School and he says after the Thanksgiving holiday, his teacher pulled him to the side to discuss the nail polish he was wearing. The school’s dress code policy claims that boys are prohibited from wearing nail polish and make-up and Wilkinson says it’s discriminatory towards gay teens such as himself. Administrators told him he had three choices: to take classes remotely until January, to go home and remove the polish or keep the nail polish and remained suspended. Wilkinson says he’s decided to keep the polish on and called the school’s dress code policy towards boys “unjust and discriminatory.”
“I got ISS (in-school suspension) for having my nails painted,’ Wilkinson writes in the petition. I was told that I will continue to get ISS until I take them off. It’s a complete double standard because girls are allowed to paint and get their nails done. Not only that, but freedom of expression is valid enough that the dress code and policy is not okay. I am a gay male and I’m beyond proud. This is unjust and not okay.”
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A petition was created to fight Wilkinson’s case against the school and so far it has received over 14,000 signatures on Change.org. In response to the petition, the Clyde Independent School District said, “The District conducts a diligent and thoughtful review of the dress code on an annual basis. That review process results in the development of a final dress code that is consistently implemented and enforced during the next school year. Parents and students are provided a copy of the dress code prior to the start of each new school year.”
SOURCE: Daily Mail