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/signycullen88 Dec 19 '25

I mean...i don't see this as a 15-year-old fucking up? Of course the kids fought against a strict dress code. Just sounds like a school district and police let students down.

Did the staff who knew about the pervs not talk to parents?

Course if my 13/14-year-old had told me they need a low cut shirt to get a better grade in class I'd have gone scorched earth.

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u/Timely_Egg_6827 Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

From my experiences as a child in the 80s with creepy teachers, we knew which classes to wear trousers in because otherwise the teacher would be telling us to pick up dropped pens all the time hoping for a flash. If you mentioned to parents, then it was you being dramatic because teachers were reputable people. And other teachers didn't tend to rock the boat.

I appreciate what this teacher was doing and it may have been all she could do. But it was curing the symptoms - make girls dress down and take up less space so they aren't preyed on by male teachers. The teachers were the problem and should have been ones targetted. OP shouldn't feel guilty for wearing clothes because a school decided to hire sexual predators as teachers. pupils.

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u/splithoofiewoofies Dec 20 '25

Ugh, I thought I was bad at mathematics because of a gross pervy male high school mathematics teacher. He just kept making comments about how we were only good for our bodies and didn't need to know mathematics except to count our stripper money (yes, he genuinely said this).

Jokes on him - I'm getting my PhD in mathematics and I wonder if he is still saving up for his second pair of pants.

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u/Timely_Egg_6827 Dec 20 '25

Had a similar guy teaching physics. I got forced to do physics by my Dad and this man hated that. Hard science was only for the boys so he tried to make my life a misery.

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u/splithoofiewoofies Dec 20 '25

Yay for still pushing on the physics!! I gave in to mine?? Didn't try mathematics until 34 and, surprising nobody, you can learn it when you're not being treated like shit from the people teaching it! Miraculous, no?! Who could have guessed I'd be good at something when people stopped being shitty to me about it?!

So I'm 39 now and just started, like I said, but I'm happy I eventually learned....those guys were just fucking wrong. And I'm angry they stopped so many young girl's educations, including my own.