17 Students Suspended From Remote Learning For Distracting Classmates With Their Bare Shoulders

Rose Burke
The Haven
Published in
5 min readDec 14, 2020

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BREAKING NEWS: Just weeks after transitioning back to remote learning, a public high school in Manhatten expelled 17 students for violating their arduous dress code. Despite studying from home, pupils are still expected to adhere to the school’s clothing regulations which forbid the exposure of the chest, thighs, and shoulders.

Ironically, the suspended students are being punished with permission to ignore their alarm clocks, browse the internet at their leisure, and binge episodes of Schitt’s Creek on Netflix. However, rather than reveling in all of this free time they now have on their hands, the outraged students have chosen to protest instead. They claim that not everyone is being held to the same standards and have deemed the school’s rules as sexist.

One particular student who was expelled for wearing a tank top that school officials designated “too revealing” didn’t understand why they were being singled out. Heres’ their comment on the situation:

I wore the tank top because it gets so hot in my bedroom. My mom keeps the heat up, like, super high this time of the year. I can’t focus on my classes if I’m literally melting at my desk.

Why does it matter what I wear in my own bedroom anyway? This is just…

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Rose Burke
The Haven

Satirical writer taking on life’s cruel sense of humor one word at a time. Published by The Independent, TSR, The Conium Review, and more. www.RoseBurke.com