A Texas assistant principal blamed girls’ ‘tight clothing’ for the bad grades of male students

[TexasTowelie]

A high school administrator in Fort Bend County, Texas, is under fire after telling female students the way they dress distracts boys from their education.

During a school assembly last week, Clements High School assistant principal Phil Morgante told female students not to wear crop tops or tight clothing–because they prove a distraction

“Ladies, I know you’ve been working on your abs since the Olympics, right? But your shirts can’t be up here. It’s gotta cover the whole gut…Ladies, I blame you all for boys’ low grades because of tight clothing,” said Morgante, according to local news site Click2Houston. One student appears to have recorded his comments–the recording was uploaded to SoundCloud by Odyssey, the website which originally broke the story on Wednesday:

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And students immediately expressed their outrage at the underlying sentiment, even if Morgante’s comment was an attempt at a joke:

Read more: http://fusion.net/story/343597/texas-high-school-low-grades-tight-clothing/

[apcalc]

1. These male administrators are out there all right.

I have worked with a few who blamed women teachers and students for male 'distractions'.

I feel it reveals much more about them and their inner workings , as if we must all adjust our behavior to keep them towing the proper path.

Nope. No more. Take redponsibility for your thoughts, behavior, and performance, buckos.

[Buzz Clik]

2. No filter on that idiot's mouth. Maybe he needs to time off to think about it -- unpaid.

[Loki]

3. Having lived in Texas for almost 20 years,

this kind of stupidity doesn't surprise me at all. The one proud state, has become a shadow. The only thing it has is gas and it smells.

[shenmue]

5. Zoiks

[SusanCalvin]

4. My gosh that was stupid.

It sounds even worse when you hear it (audio at link in OP).

That's a standard start-of-school lecture, so one has to wonder how many years he's been saying that.

[packman]

6. I believe ALL females should wear a head-to-toe

black robe with only their eyes (maybe dark glasses) showing. Works in some countries, I hear.

[procon]

7. The kid's comments are right on target; they get it.

@lisadyu9
I'm sorry my shoulder made your son get an F


@lisadyu9
teach boys not to sexualize female bodies!!!

From the beginning, when some pre-hominid male critter first crawled out of the primordial ooze, every culture that mankind ever invented has blamed women for the poor decisions made by men. The fact that young boys are STILL being taught to sexualize and objectify girls is almost as harmful to them as it is to their female classmates. Why are boys taught that they are brainless animals in rut, emotional, lust filled, raging beasts that are incapable of controlling their even their baser instincts?

It's beyond alarming that in the 21 century women can still be reduced to their body parts and a swatch of fabric, as if that is justification for anything that men want do to them.