Kasey Landrum, Gay Tennessee Teen, Suspended For Wearing Makeup (VIDEO)

A Tennessee teen was briefly handed a three-day in-school suspension after being deemed a distraction for wearing eye make-up on school grounds 10 minutes after classes had ended.

As The Advocate is reporting, 16-year-old Kasey Landrum, who identifies himself as gay, was issued the suspension from Lexington High School after being told he violated the school's dress code. “The principal walked into the school and immediately started yelling at me for it, and told me to get outside,” Landrum is quoted as saying.

Though the 11th grader said it was not the first time he was called out by school staff for wearing make-up, Landrum notes that another "punk-rock" student who had been wearing make-up that same day was not reprimanded. "He had it on all day, and I was like, 'If he can wear make-up, so can I.'"

Landrum's mother Shelly Maness is quoted by LGBTQNation as saying she was "very upset" about the incident. “When I went to register him, about the make-up, [Lexington High School Principal Steve Lindsey] reminded us Kasey was not to be wearing any,” she adds.

After the suspension caught the attention of The Tennessee Equality Project and LGBTQNation, Landrum’s suspension was reversed, and a new school policy allowing all students to wear make-up was put in place.

Watch a video report on Landrum's case below:

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Comments

[Jennbrooklyn]

11:24 AM on 11/08/2011

It always seems to me that the "distraction" by students does not affect the students but the teachers because it is the teachers who face the students for 45 minutes straight.

[dirtydog1776]

11:19 AM on 11/08/2011

I do feel sorry for Kasey Landrum, as he needs a complete makeover. The way he looks now, he will still be leaving the party alone for a long time to come.

[RyanBurke]

11:36 PM on 11/07/2011

Anyone who says that uniforms should be worn because clothes/makeup cause a distraction are obviously too far removed from their teenage years to make an insightful comment.

[Brandon Theodore]

11:20 PM on 11/07/2011

Oh no! a dude is wearing makeup, Now there is no way I can focus on my school work because I care so much about what everyone in my class has on their face! This is ridiculous, first of all if it is not enforced for female students then THIS IS selective discrimination. I guess I can't speak for everyone but I know I can speak for a large group of people when I say: the makeup someone wears is not going to make us lose focus on our studies. This is blatantly an infringement on his rights and if I was this kid I would come back to school with clown makeup. I really hope his parents are doing something to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again.

[SkeeBee]

04:20 PM on 11/07/2011

In the land,
That isn't freeee
Surely not
For the,
Brave.

(GET IN LINE AND SUBSCRIBE TO GROUP THINK YA PINKO'S/COMMIES/SOCIALIST/LIBRULS!!!)

[sadwitness]

03:58 PM on 11/07/2011

I love those ideas of smaller government- wasn't that notion going to stop all of this? No wait, that is only for corporate americans, individuals will still be forced to comply with mob rule

[dirtydog1776]

11:17 AM on 11/08/2011

No, public schools are part of the "government controls" everything mentality, where bureaucrats with public mandates and policies tells everyone what to do and think. Public schools, where everyone is forced to worship and practice "diversity," is the exact opposite of limited government.

This is part of the reason that Obama is the focus of such adulation, as children are taught to sing and chant praises about him.

Private schools can and do set their own standards, but that is because dealings with them are done on an individual, consensual basis. Like going to a store where you must have shoes and shirt. You don't like it, you go elsewhere. In public schools, you support them with your tax dollars, whether you like them or not.

[MoeB]

12:57 PM on 11/08/2011

What "praises" are children taught to sing about the President?

Further, I went to both public and private schools...private schools are MUCH MORE restrictive on what "rights" children have...

And "government controls" is no better or worse than "private industry controls"...BOTH CONTROL.

[Ulalume s Ague]

01:49 PM on 11/08/2011

Your talking points are outdated and your logic circular-- Public Schools, you proclaim, require people to worship diversity and yet...YET...this student is suspended for wearing make-up? You spin me right round, baby, right round.

[Heidi McClure]

03:03 PM on 11/07/2011

This happened to one of my daughter's friends a few years ago, except he was not allowed to return to school afterward.

[PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS]

02:11 PM on 11/07/2011

Sometimes I think we need to reevaluate that whole secession thingy 'bout the South leaving the union during the civil war because it wasn't such a bad idea after all...............................

[aphextwin07]

12:29 PM on 11/07/2011

so girls can wear it but guys cannot? sexist much?

[Squiriferous]

09:38 PM on 11/06/2011

Looking like a raccoon in Tennessee is a great way to end up as some bumpkin's Davey Crockett hat.

[Marcus047]

10:58 PM on 11/07/2011

or as roadkill surprise. Seriously though, the school and principal are totally out of line.

[JTyroler]

09:05 PM on 11/06/2011

If another male student is allowed to wear makeup and the openly gay male student is not allowed, that is about as blatant of discrimination as you can demonstrate. The family should contact the ACLU and Lambda Legal.

[OldCowboy]

04:50 PM on 11/06/2011

Ahh. The Tennessee Fascists are hard at work. Good to know you can still find good old-fashioned, hard-core bigotry in the home of the Volunteers.

[Ulalume s Ague]

01:50 PM on 11/08/2011

...Volunteers... too eff'ing hilarious. Voluntary requirement in Tenn to shove your head up yerass and take a deep breath.

[mikey09]

04:48 PM on 11/06/2011

I'm a fan of school uniforms and clean faces. School is for education, learning, plenty of time outside school for style expression etc. Wish kids paid more attention to their homework assignment and not what they will be wearing to school the next day.

[TreeHuggingLiberal]

11:02 PM on 11/06/2011

As a retired teacher, I couldn't agree more. However, if a schooli s going to enforce rules - then the rules should be enforced for all students and not just some.

[nawseeya]

12:49 AM on 11/07/2011

as a retired teacher why would you say that this guys "makeup" would impede education, learningt, homework, etc?

i'm almost sure that they were learning just fine all day, till the principal sailed off the deep end.

[RyanBurke]

11:32 PM on 11/07/2011

The inability of many teachers far exceeds any distraction caused by clothes or make-up.

[Artie klein]

12:25 PM on 11/06/2011

Gangs wearing colors, unconventional use of make-up, revealing clothes,....I say form a dress code getting rid of all of those distractions for boys and girls. Focus on learning, not distracting.

[Christina-Xena]

01:06 AM on 11/07/2011

I agree...and they have them at this school. I found and posted their entire "attire" code (took 5 comments to fit it all in) a few pages back.

This kid thinks he's above the rules.

[dogtac69]

08:26 AM on 11/07/2011

Christina-Xena:

principal

[PillowCaseLaw]

01:09 PM on 11/07/2011

Selective enforcement is discrimination.

[Neenerpuss]

04:11 PM on 11/07/2011

In most cases the distractions are of the teacher...not the students. You want less distractions...limit the class sizes to a manageable amount of 18. Some school districts have class sizes in the 50's. A teacher spends all their time with behavioral problems and not enough time teaching.

[ZMP]

11:46 AM on 11/06/2011

Sexism at its finest. If girls can wear makeup to school, boys can. If you ban make-up for one, you ban it for ALL. Be fair.

[POR4319]

02:52 PM on 11/06/2011

Guys can also play shirts and skins football. Not sure that would go over so well with girls. Sorry, boys and girls are still different. Nothing's changed.

[Vintage59]

03:24 PM on 11/06/2011

I wouldn't have any problem with high school girls playing shirts and skins.

[Neenerpuss]

04:13 PM on 11/07/2011

Shirts and skins is OPTIONAL it is a freedom...not one is forcing them to take their shirt off.

Someone is forcing one gender no to do the exact same thing that the other gender can freely do.

[Squiriferous]

09:42 PM on 11/06/2011

The "childish" argument of "but so-and-so is allowed to do it" is almost always proven to in fact be the correct position.