Jonathan Escobar, 16, North Cobb High School Student, Withdraws School Won't Permit Him to Dress as a Woman

Jonathan Escobar, a student at North Cobb High School, has withdrawn because he says an assistant principal at the school told him last week he needed to dress more "manly" for school, or consider being home-schooled. He had only been a student at the school for three days. Your next question should be, what's the reason for this? Well, according to Jay Dillon, spokesman for Cobb County schools, Escobar arrived at school in a dress and heels. But Escobar said he never wore a dress. He says he opted for "skinny" jeans all three days with flats. He said, in a media interview, that the chooses to wear clothes that express himself. Skinny jeans, wigs, "vintage" clothing and makeup are the staples of his wardrobe. "I don't consider myself a cross-dresser," he said. "This is just who I am." He reportedly wore a pink wig to school last Wednesday.

The school district lists the dress code on its homepage and the rules state that students should "refrain from any mode of dress which proves to contribute to any disruption of school functions." Hello people, it's not every day that a male student parades throughout the school in female clothing. Clearly this is ridiculous and he/she should be homeschooled. This country is slowly losing its sense of what is right and wrong. Where will this political correctness end?

Escobar said he moved to Cobb County from Miami to live with his older sister. His Florida school didn't have an issue with the way he dressed, but his parents did. His sister, Veronica Escobar, urged her parents to let Jonathan come to live with her. Now she says she's shocked by what has happened.

Escobar says he wants to be allowed to attend school and eventually graduate. But he doesn't want to stifle what he calls his art. It is called crazy. I attended high school in Jamaica and the vast majority of the schools on the island have a dress code. Every student wears a school uniform. If this was the case in all the schools in the United States, this ridiculous sideshow by Jonathan Escobar would be a non-issue.

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Photo credit: Jonathan Escobar, Atlanta Journal Constitution