"You Look Fat" Principal To High School Girls: No Leggings Unless You're A Size 2 Or Smaller

#1

Women who are reading this article: what percentage of your wardrobe is leggings, skinny jeans and yoga pants? 50 percent, at least? Maybe as high as 90 percent? Same here, which is why this story about a school banning their female students from wearing those things is making us bum hard.

#2 A South Carolina principal body shamed high school girls to teach them the school’s dress code

Telling high school girls they look fat is a pretty horrible way to teach them the school’s dress code, but that didn’t stop a principal in South Carolina.

#3

According to a parent’s Facebook post, she told girls that they could get away with wearing stretch pants in middle school, before they developed figures, but now most of them should no longer wear them.

“I’ve told you this before, I’m going to tell you this now, unless you are a size zero or two and you wear something like that, you look fat,” Taylor can be heard saying on a recording.

#4

One student’s mom took to Facebook to say that Taylor agreed to apologize to students, but she — and her daughter — were still livid about the situation.

“Body shaming teenage girls is uncalled for, inappropriate and unprofessional. When I spoke with her, she talked around the issue, and made excuse after excuse, effectively calling all of the students liars,” Lacy Thompson-Harper, whose daughter is a junior at the school, wrote in her post. “This has upset many, many more students than just those in the 10th grade. My daughter is in the 11th grade, and is livid. She has been ridiculed by students for her body, and shouldn’t be subjected to it from teachers. By the end of the conversation with Mrs. Taylor, she agreed to apologize to the 11th and 12th grade students during their assemblies, and to call back both the 9th and 10th grade students and apologize. Is this enough? I don’t know. But, I feel that parents need to know what was said by a woman who is an educator, and is supposed to be a role model for these kids. Right now, I’m a very angry parent, with a very angry daughter.”

#5

Student Allison Veazy told WCBD-TV that it was hard for her not to take Taylor’s comments personally, since she often wears leggings outside of school.

“It was very hurtful,” she said. “I felt like my size made me look disgusting towards someone in the clothes that I wear. I wear leggings outside of school and I wear leggings when I go and hang out with my friends, and to think that someone would think that I look like a stuffed sausage — that was kind of hurtful.”

#6

Taylor later agreed to apologize to the students, according to the parent, and the TV station reported that she later asked parents to call her if they had additional concerns.