‘Actually, I don’t need your permission': Student gets back at principal who gives classmates demerit points based on dress code

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Eleonora Bader
Feb 1, 2024 10:00 AM EST

One student became furious when her school principal gave one of her friends demerit points for 'dress code violations'. The most annoying part was that even though she was wearing the same thing as her friend, she didn't get told off. In a sense, this student was upset that they hadn't been punished. That's some real loyalty right there!

The issue was bigger than that, though. This principal would only give certain girls in the school dress code violations. Unfortunately, this was a recurring thing. So a lesson had to be learned, and OP was the student who was going to teach it! Since OP was in charge of the art club, she had been planning a project where she gave 10 disposable cameras to each grade. Everyone would pass the cameras around and take pictures of their day. Later, OP would have them developed and mounted on display… She knew that her principal would never give her permission for such a project, so she turned to someone else instead…

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    "I don't need your permission."
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    Got revenge on my teacher for only dress coding certain girls
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    Remembered and thought this out of the blue I'd share. Background info: I (16f at the time) went to a school that was K-12. We had multiple principals, one for the elementary school, one for middle, one for high school, and an overall principal who was in charge of all of them.
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    The principal of the high school, who I'll call Ms. Smith, was notorious for only giving certain girls dress code violations. It always seemed to be the more "developed" girls that got in trouble. I once confronted her about it after she dress coded a friend of mine for having a short skirt while ignoring the fact that mine was even shorter. She
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    mumbled some bu it about my outfit being “more modest overall" and gave my friend a demerit (our school's policy was 3 demerits = detention). This really rubbed me the wrong way. So I hatched a petty little plan.
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    I was in charge of the art club. I'd been planning a project where I gave 10 disposable cameras to each grade in the HS to pass around and take pictures of their day. Afterwards I had them developed and mounted a display (before you ask, thankfully all of the pictures came out PG).
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    I knew I had to get permission from the principal. Instead of going to Ms. Smith, I decided to go straight to the principal of the whole school, Mr. Jones. He gave me the green light. I didn't inform Ms. Smith of the project.
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    On the day I distributed the cameras, Ms. Smith found me during 2nd period and informed me she'd confiscated them due to not getting her permission. It was then that I informed her that I didn't need her permission, because Mr. Jones had given his. She started at me with a sort of goldfish expression. I told her I'd be happy to return the cameras to each grade, but I
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    had class, so could she do it? After an awkward pause she agreed. I thought the idea of her having to visit each individual classroom to eat her own words was hilarious. Even though she'll never know why I pulled that stunt, it brought me joy to know I'd embarrassed her just like she embarrassed my friend.
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    After_Ad_7740 · 7 hr. ago I cannot stand teachers who pull s t like that. I had a paper route for one year that was ten houses long on a street that had a middle school on the other side of the street. I was 20 when i was doing papers and had to deal with an idiot teacher who insisted on trying to dress code me an adult doing a f n job for 's sake. I fought
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    with them for the entire spring semester until i lost patience and called my boss who told the teacher to knock it the fx off or they would be the ones to explain to the street exactly why paper delivery was being cancelled. 315 Reply Share
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    MrsTurtlebones - 6 hr. ago Please tell more about this. What did she say to you? Did she think you were in school? What right did she think she had to dress code you? 89 Reply Share
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    After_Ad_7740 · 6 hr. ago The women in my family hold their ages well. At 20 I looked 17 or 18. And i sort of resembled a girl who went to the school because the jacket i was wearing i had bought from the girl at a yard sale the summer before. So every thursday i ended up having to deal with this teacher who had her nose so far into the clouds that she could never see that lookalike doesn't wear
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    glasses like i do. She started f ng at me about my black long sleeved shirt and black sweatpants and black winter boots which i wore because it was middle of spring thaw and there were deep puddles of water on the ground at both intersections. Apparently black wasn't allowed at that school. If i wore any lighter colors the news ink would show up like a sore thumb. Reply Share 127
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    ArchangeLillie - 7 hr. ago Got a good laugh out of this, thank you. My HS was similar, only dress coding certain girls. Was so infuriating. Wish I could have pulled a stunt like this 249 Reply Share
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    Danivelle 7 hr. ago A good project would be to have a select group of girls, both "well developed" and less so wear the exact same outfit to school. No mods, just exactly the same outfit in the appropriate size. Take a picture of the outfit, take a picture of each girl before school. Note who gets "dress coded" and by which teacher(s). Post in school newspaper or post on social media.
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    Not the most "popular" girls either. Average everyday girls. 80 Reply Share
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    omegatryX - 7 hr. ago Our HS was interesting like that too. You got coded for shoes that werent black full leather, and you got coded for socks that werent full white. (Yes that included colour piping on the black leather shoes.) There was girls who wore literal thick clumpy makeup - mascara, blush, lipstick, eyeliner the works, but I got coded for a tinted moisturiser that was only noticeable if you looked closely because it was in my hair lol.
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    Imaginary-Yak-6487 · 8 hr. ago I don't get it. 21 Reply Share _embr. 8 hr. ago Teacher irritated OP with dress code nonsense, OP got unrelated revenge by making the teacher look stupid over the camera nonsense. Took me a minute to figure out too.
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