The authority of high school administrators has now deteriorated to the point that they feel they have to make concessions to student activists female students over rape culture

Boston Latin School, one of the oldest public exam schools and best high schools in the U.S., recently decided to enforce its longstanding dress code, and the result was a politically correct student uprising over the progressive chimeras of "patriarchy" and "rape culture," according to Heat Street.

The code is hardly unreasonable. It prohibits gang-related colors and symbols, sexually explicit logos, hemlines higher than four inches above the knee, leggings worn as pants, and shirt-shoulder straps narrower than the width of three fingers. Like all school dress codes, it's designed to reduce potential tensions -- either sexual or gang-related -- so that students can maintain some semblance of focus on schoolwork. 

But the schoolgirls at Boston Latin are less interested in schoolwork than in social justice activism. They created a Change.org petition in which they claimed the code sends the message that “we still live in a patriarchal society where men can decide whether a female’s clothing is appropriate or inappropriate.” They also complained that the dress code creates “a sense of shame towards girls bodies” and reinforces the notion that “yes, it is our fault when girls get raped because they should have covered up and avoided the situation by dressing in a way that does not attract another person.”

Presumably they'd feel more empowered if they turned the school hallways into a slut walk.

So rather than ignore the petition with its social justice buzz-phrases and lunatic assumptions about human nature and simply punish anyone who violated the dress code, administrators actually met with student representatives and caved on the leggings issue -- unless the leggings are “sheer or see-through.” The rest of the dress code, according to Heat Street, will stay in place and take effect on Nov. 1.