17 year old student: 'I was suspended for being gay'

[kpete]

'I was suspended for being gay': Student, 17, says school kicked him out for wearing high heels
Asante Cotman suspended for three days in Virginia
Claims headteacher said he was disrupting lessons
But teen felt 'suicidal after suffering discrimination'
By MARK DUELL
Last updated at 10:12 PM on 2nd March 2012


An angry 17-year-old male student claims he felt suicidal after being booted out of high school for 'being gay and wearing high heels'.

Asante Cotman, of Charles City County, Virginia, was allegedly told to remove his heels because he was disrupting lessons at Charles City High.

The teen claimed he was not bothering anyone but the school principal suspended him for three days and allegedly told him not to come back.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109501/Student-Asante-Cotman-17-says-Virginia-school-kicked-wearing-high-heels.html#ixzz1o4UGfoaq

[madmom]

1. I can remember when I was sent home from school for wearing jeans ( I know I'm old) but their

rational was the rivets on the back pocket ruined the wooden desk seats. I asked why boys could wear jeans then, they said they were different, I then proceeded to inform them that I was wearing boys jeans (I wore boys jeans until my first pregnancy). I was still suspended and told I could only wear womens "dress" pants and then only when it was below freezing outside. Needless to say I gladly took the suspension and went shopping for MORE JEANS!!!!

[Yavapai]

2. At my high school, waaayyyyy back when,

they changed the dress code so that no jeans were allowed at all. They announced this in the morning and at lunch time, everyone was discussing it and no one went back to class that afternoon.

The next day, every one came to school in jeans. The principal gave in and allowed jeans from then on. That was in 1959!!!

That makes me feel proud (and old.)