This is the resulty of Britney Spears and that ilk.
Posted on 05/17/2004 2:51:27 PM PDT by Blue Highway
CINCINNATI -- Imagine it's a special day at school, and you're asked to leave because of what you're wearing. That's what happened to a 13-year-old girl at Holy Family Catholic School in Price Hill on the day of her May crowning and graduation pictures, WLWT reported.
"I don't think nothing was wrong with the dress," eighth-grader Dannielle Fuqua said. But she was told otherwise because the dress was too revealing, according to the principal.
"I was crying until I got home, and I was still crying when I got home," Fuqua said. Added her mother, Kathy Meyer: "They said Dannielle's dress showed too much cleavage."
Meyer bought the dress for her daughter because it was so similar to the one Dannielle wore to confirmation, and there were no problems with it, according to the family. Meyer added that Dannielle is simply mature for her age, and that's the only reason the dress shows perhaps more than it would on others.
"There's cleavage, but when you're as big as Dannielle, there's going to be cleavage," Meyer said. "There's nothing I can do about that."
No one from the school wanted to talk on-camera, but officials said they felt they made the right decision, and added that the dress didn't meet the standards for the occasion.
According to a letter sent home to parents, dresses should reveal no cleavage. Also, Catholic schools are allowed to set their own standards. But Fuqua said she's convinced it's a simple case of over-reaction.
"It's not something I intended to do, to get the wrong dress so I wouldn't be able to go to May crowning and graduation," she said.
This is the resulty of Britney Spears and that ilk.
That's what happened to a 13-year-old girl
A teenage girl crying about something is news?
Don't blame the 13 year old.
Blame the BimboMom.
I wouldn't let my 13 year old daughter wear this.
Her mother should act like a mother:
13 is too young to show cleavage.
Is that the thirteen year old?
DITO!!!
Sure is something wrong with the grammar, though..
oh, I don't know...maybe buy her a dress that isn't cut so low?
Where's the girl's father in all this? As a father, I wouldn't let my daughter leave the house looking like that.
Yes thats the girl, and I am guessing thats the mother sitting behind her.
Look, I sympathize with her, as it is frustrating to be over developed (my daughter has a similiar problem--and yes it is a PROBLEM). It is very hard to find clothing that fits well--but it can be found. We looked over 2 hours on Saturday to find a confirmation dress that didn't make her look like a 5 buck whore.
The school would have put the place on lockdown if they saw what John Kerry's daughter was wearing in Cannes over the weekend!!! :o
OK, warning, this is a "when I was 13" posting, 42 years ago when I was 13, and on through high school, if we showed up with our knees showing, our hems were ripped out. If we showed up with hair that measured more than one inch (this was the days of Hairspray), it was wet down and bobby pins were applied. We wore saddle shoes, sport shows were not allowed. We wore plan cotton socks, bobby socks and "popcorn" socks were not allowed. Cleavage??? no one knew what that meant but I imagine that if someone showed up with it showing, she would have to wear a habit.
Poor little baby. I do know, however, that when my daughter was that age, 10 years ago, it was really hard to find clothes that didn't make her look like a whore and I'm sure it's worse now.
Hmmm. Sounds like she needs to spend less time shopping and more time studying.
Most Catholic schools have dress codes. If mom wants to raise her kid as a typical undisciplined, narcissistic brat who likes to wear the latest slutwear, she should send her kid to the guvmint skools.
"I don't think nothing was wrong with the dress," eighth-grader Dannielle Fuqua said.
This is just wrong. She's barely a teenager.
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