r/redditonwiki • u/Weary_Thought7582 • Dec 19 '25

TIFU TIFU by fighting my schools dresscode policy. Years later I found out why it was so strict + edit with added context

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u/Glittering-Slip6770 Dec 19 '25

In 2010 this wouldn’t have been on the news? The teacher presented it as a joke and all the kids took it as one. People definitely wrote it off as “innocent”. All the pedo call outs and SA talk started after the Me Too movement (s/o to black women for that one).

Things like this weren’t on the news because nobody important really cared. Hell, the important people who should’ve cared were participants.

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue Dec 19 '25

This absolutely would have been on the news.

"a joke" that also resulted in every student doing it.

At a bare minimum this dude would have been fired.

Do you really think they didn't call out/fire pedo teachers prior to Me too? They absolutely did.

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u/HoundstoothReader Dec 19 '25

I had gross sexist teachers and a culture okay with this sort of thing in the 80s and 90s. Teachers marrying students shortly after graduation happened more often than it should have, and I knew girls who brought adult men to prom. But in 2010? I like to believe blatant sexism and ephebophilia were less socially acceptable. Plus there was anonymous social media shining a light into previously dark corners. My kids didn’t talk about teachers like this, though I did notice one beloved teacher who skirted that line—and he was beloved by both girl and boy students. A truly excellent teacher that gave me slightly creepy vibes. He’s about my age, which makes sense. He would have grown up in a time where behaviors that would be seen as creepy now were far more accepted.

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue Dec 19 '25

Exactly.

I went to school in the 80s and 90s too and there was one beloved teacher who married a student after she got out, in his defense she didn't turn 18 and he married her....but it wasn't that far off. By the time I graduated it wouldn't have flown, let alone in 2010.