>School, they say, is a rigorous academic and social training ground for the world of adults and employment.<p>School is a slave-labor camp whose purposes are 1) to keep the kids off the streets and out of the labor force and 2) to provide jobs for union teachers. Academics are an afterthought at best, usually not even that.
Sure, why not. Mind you, it is going to set him up for ridicule and he shouldn't complain about that (especially not if it is a tutu), but I don't see why not.<p>Girls can wear pants to school, can't they ?
The reason that kids would bully male students that would wear dresses to school or female students that wear pants to school is precisely because the administration forbids it.<p>The administration forbidding it is just confirming in their minds that the behavior of these students is not normal and worthy of derision. In cases where those in authority do not treat it as out of order, the students are far less likely to bully the child.
The solution is eliminating the dress code entirely and setting up kids to believe there is a "right" and a "wrong" way to dress. Once crossdressing seems natural and acceptable, kid'll stop being immature about it. The more you try to say something's wrong, the most people you'll unintentionally hurt.
I also believe that the failings of the group are always the failings of the leadership. If bullying is rampant in a school, it's because the school administration doesn't do enough to punish bullying. By banning cross-dressing, they only reinforce the bully's belief system.
I wear a kilt on occasion. I wore it to work one day. Technically, I was compliant with the dress code, as there was no mention of sex anywhere in the dress code document.