Cheerleader uniform too short for school, yet somehow fine for games

The Pinellas school district in Florida won't let its cheerleaders wear their uniforms during school hours this year. One district principal says the issue boils down to fairnesss and an attempt to hew to a recently implemented stricter dress code. Countryside High School principal Gary Schlereth told the Tampa Bay Times, "A parent looks at their son or daughter getting 'dress coded' for wearing something short, then they look at the cheerleading uniform and they say, 'What about that?'" The logical objection to the double-standard of a district-approved uniform being banned in school has been raised: Christine Johnson, mother of one of Countryside's cheerleaders, asked the Times, "... Why can they wear it in front of thousands of people at a football field if they can't wear it on game day at school?" Another school principal, Lakewood High School's Bob Vicari told the Tampa Bay Tribune that, "I have at least 80 to 100 students that have come to me with positive comments about our new dress code," which doesn't sound like a thing high school students would really ever do, but we'll take his word for it.