Carey Burgess was wearing a collared shirt and khaki skirt while walking to a vending machine for a snack at her high school in South Carolina when she was abruptly sent home.
According to a post on Burgess' Instagram account, a teacher walking behind her told her that her skirt was "too short" and that she should "go to in-school suspension and then go home." Burgess, the student body president at Beaufort High School, had worn the outfit for her Teacher Cadet lesson later that day.
"Thank you for bringing me to tears in front of my friends and classmates because you do not have the decency to pull me aside and explain the problem," Burgess wrote.
"So maybe I am in the wrong," she continued. "Maybe our society isn't yet advanced enough to handle 3 inches of my thigh. This is a patriarchal society and I am a woman. I have to be kept in my place, or I may do something that is so rarely seen in Beaufort High School -- learn."
We'll say this: No matter what she's wearing, this girl's got guts.