Isn't it a little sad when you have to explain to teenage girls why they have to wear a shirt to school?

There are many ways to show school spirit. This is not one that I would choose. If I had a daughter I wouldn't let her out of the house like this to go to school. There is a time and a place for a bikini and school is not one of them - if they had worn it to the football game only it may not have been against school policy but still questionable IMO. Using the argument that the guys do it so why can't we..... Well, simply put a woman's body is different than a males. When you play pick up basketball how often do you see women playing shirts and skins and being on the skins team??? Thinking this is inappropriate has nothing to do with being a prude or not being "enlightened" it has to do with keeping a certain amount of decorum in a school setting. In my high school we got sent home if our skirts/shorts or our shirts were too short and that was long before the micro mini and bikini style shirts that some girls wear today. I never felt comfortable showing that much skin in school anyway - I also think that leaving something to the imagination is worth something!!!

As a parent many years ago I would never even dream of sending my daughter to school "dressed" in nothing but a bikini and some war paint. whether it was just for a football match or not. Maybe I am a bit old fashioned. as nothing surprises me what kids, yes and their parents get up to these days.

I am in total agreement with you! Where are the acting parents? I am the mother of at 16y/o female high school student. She primarily wears pants to school, but she is in touch with her feminine side also. Today it's hard to tell when you see someone dressed like a male, but it's actually a female-there's no evident femininity there. I tell my daughter to be proud of her gender and to walk tall as a female in a generation where identifiable traits often aren't identified!

Probably not appropriate to be wearing bikini tops to school. Maybe it would of been more appropriate to go to the game like that but not the school.

Here is the pic of what those two girls looked like painted up:

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Deta...

Some of the schools here had to go to dresscodes because the gangsta types were wearing their pants down below their butts. I see idiots walking around all the time like this and I can't understand it.

You'd be surprised how many "parents" are out there that don't do anything for their children. You would also be surprised at the number of "parents" who go too far and shelter their kid so much that they have no concept of what the real world is like.

It was a football game, not a regular school day. They were showing up at the football stadium in a swimsuit top and body paint? Is that so wrong when the boys can show up totally topless and in body paint?

Either both genders should be disallowed from doing it or both be permitted to do it. Eliminate the double standard, it's no longer the 19th century.

Not sure why I get so many negatives... either everyone can do it or nobody can do it. Pick one. Give them all t-shirts to decorate and let them paint their faces, both boys and girls if it matters so much to you. Everyone is so hung up over a teenage girl wearing a swimsuit top and body paint to a hs football game. No one mentions the skimpy cheerleader outfits.

It wasnt a big enough problem for expulsion, but it was innapropriate.

Same thing happened at my school but the girls were told to change. Which they did. But then again, this is Canada.....

Well, nice to know that a new generation of girls are being properly raised to cater to the prurient interests of the public and calling it 'self-expression'. --- And women wonder why they don't get any respect.

Thats a fine example of modern day parenting there.

Sounds like momma raised a couple ho-ho's.