High school outlaws yoga pants and leggings (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtr-B7tmNZPpxOYZjwCDt091OChwN2vPxnT-lLRj7T-t5EQ8h4uiwx_qiEo7BnjIwnfsWz7wKJ2kanUKS71Fm7-21yDGJUeS-wO_LwzR4z3XlMlKvscoxb-9HzpSUakx45XRP3ks5oAE/s1600/yoga-pants-collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtr-B7tmNZPpxOYZjwCDt091OChwN2vPxnT-lLRj7T-t5EQ8h4uiwx_qiEo7BnjIwnfsWz7wKJ2kanUKS71Fm7-21yDGJUeS-wO_LwzR4z3XlMlKvscoxb-9HzpSUakx45XRP3ks5oAE/s1600/yoga-pants-collage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41580" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A recently enforced ban on yoga pants and leggings by a high school in Rockport, Massachusetts, has some students and parents saying the policy goes too far. Rockport High School’s dress code states that students are not to wear the offending pants however, students say the policy was not enforced until recently.</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41603" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41602" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="0" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41601" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="9" href="" id="cover-621dae6769d7b56cf726a3daa02cdd6a" name="cover-621dae6769d7b56cf726a3daa02cdd6a" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; position: absolute; top: -100px;"></a><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41600" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 476px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 630px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 567px; zoom: 1;"></span><div class="cta-text large" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41622" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; top: 238px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View photo</div><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 315px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 238px; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div><img alt="" class="editorial " data-preembed="image" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GfI8G8UBeYpXdml_NLyjlw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-11/71f684c0-9343-11e3-8cd5-a93cc28bfa81_dress-code-WHDH.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 630px;" title="The Rockport High School dress code illustrating what not to wear. (Rockport High School via WHDH)" width="630" /></figure><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">The Rockport High School dress code illustrating what not to wear. (Rockport High School via WHDH)</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">After school faculty expressed concern that students were not following the dress code, the principal took the opportunity during an assembly last week, to remind the kids about the policy.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">20 female students protested by wearing the body hugging pants on Friday. They were sent home and told to change their clothes and some received a write up, warning them not to wear the outlawed pants to school. Thomas Boucher a sophomore at Rockport high told <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/24668375/rockport-high-school-bans-yoga-pants%29" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WFXT Fox 25</a>, “Taking kids out of classes, missing school work and time to learn just because of material clothing does not make sense at all.”</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oG5Zb7hYmwledOvCOGHWAQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-11/72526060-9343-11e3-a200-3d1a63f899ac_HS-leggings-WFXT.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="Rockport High School students opposed to the yoga pants and leggings ban. (WFXT)" width="630" /><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">Rockport High School students opposed to the yoga pants and leggings ban. (WFXT)</div></div></span></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41626" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It's called attention to something that no one even thought about," said senior Aidan Wright to the station. The administration seems to disagree, saying that the ban is in place because the form fitting pants are “distracting” and not acceptable in the classroom environment. Wright responded telling <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.whdh.com/story/24677067/rockport-high-wont-allow-yoga-pants-leggings" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WHDH 7</a>, "I don't appreciate having to be responsible for a boy paying attention or even being told that it's my responsibility to not distract someone with my body. I don't like being objectified in that way." Parent Janine Boucher agrees, "I just think it's absolutely ridiculous. There's no reason for this to have been blown out of proportion. This is crazy, these poor kids."</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2ABE6H1uNvwt_GLzgIPjUw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-11/722535e0-9343-11e3-8cd5-a93cc28bfa81_Aidan-Wright-WHDH.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="Aidan Wright, a senior at Rockport High School opposed to the school's no yoga pants and leggings policy. (WHDH)" width="630" /><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">Aidan Wright, a senior at Rockport High School opposed to the school's no yoga pants and leggings policy. (WHD …</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">According to the Superintendent of Rockport Public Schools, Rockport High’s principal will be reviewing the dress code along with a newly formed committee.</div><div class="yom-fig-frame" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41657" style="margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 714.125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41656" style="float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QYVLvalCCIc2NdEMbtv1mA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-02-11/72a00b30-9343-11e3-8701-0917f8b5e43c_Rockport-High-School-WFXT.png" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="Rockport High School (WFXT)" width="630" /><div class="legend" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41655" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">Rockport High School (WFXT)</div></div></span></div><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392140668704" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392140668708" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392140668711" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392140668715" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"></span><br /><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392198034882_41645" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Videos and more info: <a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/24668375/rockport-high-school-bans-yoga-pants%29" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WFXT</a>, <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.whdh.com/story/24677067/rockport-high-wont-allow-yoga-pants-leggings" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WHDH</a></div>

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