My daughter was sent home from school in tears after teacher said her outfit looked like lingerie – but I got my revenge

A DAD has told how his daughter was sent home from school sobbing after her teacher claimed her outfit looked like lingerie.

Chris Wilson said schoolgirl Karis was terrified as she chose what to wear each morning after the male staff member complained.

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She was reprimanded after being told the teacher at NorKam Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, felt “uncomfortable” because of her dress.

Another teacher also commented that Karis’ clothes reminded her of a “lingerie outfit”.

The teenager wore a white long-sleeved top with a knee-length black dress with a lace trim worn over it.

Her angry father slammed the school for disrupting Karis’s education over her clothes and leaving the teenager in tears.

Chris said: “She wasn’t wearing it sexually. She wasn’t wearing it to attract attention. She usually wears sweatpants and a hoodie.

“She had a snowboarding accident a month or two ago and hasn’t been able to be active for a while. She had started going to the gym and feeling better.

“The day she decided to wear a dress and feel good, that’s how they reacted.”

After the incident allegedly destroyed his then 17-year-old daughter’s self-esteem, the father decided to take revenge on the school via social media.

He shared his outrage at the dress code in a Facebook video following the February 2021 incident.

The clip quickly garnered over 100,000 views, and an army of supporters bombarded the school with emails about the incident.

Karis stayed away for over a week as the clip quickly went viral – but only became increasingly worried about how she dressed for class.

Chris continued, “It was more about caring about what you wear to school than caring about education.

“She had lost more than a week of school and then she said, ‘Dad, I don’t know what to wear to school.

“She elaborated on that a little bit and said, ‘Dad, if I’m just wearing my sweatpants and hoodie, if I’m wearing something comfortable, do I adjust? If I wear something that makes me feel pretty, do I try to rub it on their face?'”

In the clip, Chris claimed he was told the employee who made the comments was “a little dated”.

He said he was then informed that the dress code states that outfits should not “distract from teaching or learning.”

The dad told CBC, “It’s actually a very modest outfit if you look closely… I think the first comments were based on the fact that it had lace.

“And the more you think about it, the more you say it, the more you realize that’s absurd. I’m frustrated, I’m hurt.

“I’m disappointed with the system. She was sent home in this beautiful dress and a turtleneck – because we know turtlenecks can be mismatched.”

Students at Norkam Senior Secondary showed their support for Karis by going on strike to protest the way she was being treated.

But the teenager was too scared to ever go back to school and refused to set foot in the classroom again after the outfit ordeal.

Karis finished her high school education at home but was still able to attend her graduation in person with her friends.

She has now started college in Alberta and wants to put the incident behind her.

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