Parents Shocked at Assistant Principal's Outburst 'Blame the Girls' Because They Ruin Everything'

An assistant principal at a Tennessee high school has been placed on administrative leave after his comments about female students went viral.

While addressing a dress code policy regarding athletic shorts (which students are not allowed to wear at the school), Soddy-Daisy High School’s athletic director, Jared Hensley, said “If you really want someone to blame, blame the girls. Because they pretty much ruin everything.”

“They ruin the dress code, they ruin…well, ask Adam. Look at Eve. That’s really all you really gotta get to, OK. You can really go back to the beginning of time. So, it’ll be like that the rest of your life. Get used to it, keep your mouth shut, suck it up [and] follow the rules.”

The original video, which has since been removed from YouTube, contains announcements and other information that is produced by journalism students and broadcast to other students at the school, according to news reports.

Watch below from chattanooga times free press

Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson said the district had reviewed the video content and found Hensley’s comments “inexcusable.”

“We find the comments about young women in this video inexcusable, as the sentiments expressed do not align with the values of Hamilton County Schools. The situation is under investigation, and this employee has been placed on administrative leave effective immediately,” Johnson said in a statement.

“We hold our employees and our leaders to a high standard, and these comments do not match the high expectations we have for our employees. We seek to prepare all children for success in life after high school and expect our employees to provide an atmosphere that will empower all children to reach their full potential.”

Natalie Green, a mother of a daughter in Hamilton County Schools said Hensley’s statements “disgust her.”

“The fact that they’re coming from an educator is bad enough, but the fact that they’re coming from a man in a position of power is even worse. These remarks are blatantly sexist and misogynistic,” Green said. “And do nothing but perpetuate victim-blaming and reinforce the rape culture that is so insidiously ingrained in our society.”

Alicia Whitley, a mother of four Hamilton County students, related Hensley’s comments to the current controversy regarding accusations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted two women.

“This is how Kavanaugh is getting so much support from the GOP. This nation has made sexism normal and acceptable. People feel like they can say things like this with no repercussions,” Whitley said.

Mr Hensley has been placed on leave.

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17 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 20 Nov 2022
    9:53 am
Wow….i sure pity any woman that gets involved with this dude

- - curlytops said
  - 12 Oct 2018
    10:08 am
You do wonder if this is what he is posting on line in a more formal setting and thinks is acceptable then what would he be saying in the class rooms in casual situations off camera? Defiantly not a positive role model.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 05 Oct 2018
    10:48 am
How awful for the school and community. This is just one man’s sentiments and they are not acceptable in this time or place. Glad they removed him from the school.

- - tessie said
  - 05 Oct 2018
    10:01 am
I can’t believe a person in such a position of looking out for and teaching children would say this. I hope his leave is without pay. No woman wants to listen to that.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 03 Oct 2018
    3:32 pm
Well he is destined to be a lonely old bachelor with no sisters or mother to love!

- - rovermum said
  - 03 Oct 2018
    8:54 am
Wow… he’s obviously had a hard life, ruined mostly by girls. I hope he doesn’t marry a girl, or father a girl… God help them!!

- - ella12 said
  - 02 Oct 2018
    11:42 am
What a massive disrespectful moron, he has zero leader traits.

- - squeekums said
  - 01 Oct 2018
    9:01 pm
I wish i was shocked at his views but look who president and the support Kavanagh has

- - BellaB said
  - 30 Sep 2018
    7:04 pm
Good grief. I can’t believe anyone says things like this.
- mom93821 replied
  
  01 Oct 2018 , 5:01 am
  It really is such a shame in these times to express these views.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    01 Oct 2018 , 5:03 am
    
    I agree with you to say and express these things is hard to believe.
- - mom93821 said
  - 30 Sep 2018
    5:34 am
A peculiar video and not the right type of message that should be coming from a school leader. A school leader should be leading by example which includes the wise use of words when directed at students.

- - Blossom said
  - 29 Sep 2018
    3:00 pm
When I was in high school the dress code was our dress/ skirt had to be a mininum height above our knees. The rules were enforced more strictly when some went to school with them so short that you could see their knickers without them bending over or leaning forward. It was at about the time the mini came back into fashion. I didin’t go to a co-ed school. I went to the Girls Tehnical High School my Mum had gone to. It had a vastly different range of subjects to what the High Schools did then.

- - Ellen said
  - 29 Sep 2018
    8:36 am
Good to haer he got placed on administrative leave. He should get sacked !
So discriminative, generalizing, unnuanced and judgemental.

- - LuckyMum said
  - 28 Sep 2018
    4:21 pm
Seriously?? Wow I’m trying to work out if he was joking …

- - ashna9 said
  - 28 Sep 2018
    2:47 pm
Wow, not the position to be so opinionated in really.

- - mom90758 said
  - 28 Sep 2018
    1:17 pm
Quite opinionated the guy!!