Posted on 04/02/2010 4:47:26 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Dress Deemed Too Short, Revealing On Top:
OXFORD, Ala. --
A high school senior in Alabama was suspended for wearing a prom dress that school officials said was too short at the hem and too revealing on top.
"I was so excited because it was my senior prom and I'd never been to a senior prom, so I was excited," Oxford High School student Erica DeRamus said.
DeRamus said she knew her school had dress code policies, but didn't think her dress would violate them. But when she got to prom Saturday, officials told her it was too short and too revealing.
"What cleavage? That's exactly what I said. I wasn't trying to be rude or anything, but that's what I feel," DeRamus said.
"If I felt it was too much cleavage in this dress, I wouldn't have purchased this dress," said her mother, Darrie DeRamus. "It would have stayed in that store and I wouldn't have even gotten it off the Internet and paid for it."
But principal Trey Holloday said it violated school policy stating that dresses cannot have cleavage falling below the breastbone or hems more than 6 inches above the knee.
"And so that expectation in our community is that it's there for protection of kids and not for management of kids," he said.
Erica's mother said she was never notified of the prom dress code.
But Holloday said all parents and students were told about it not once, but three times.
Of the 352 students who attended prom, 18 violated the policy, he said. Seventeen of them chose to be paddled, while DeRamus chose a three-day suspension, Holloday said.
"We're too old to be paddled," Erica DeRamus said. "This is high school. We are seniors. If you're going to act up, give us another option besides getting paddled, because this is not the 1940s. We don't take corporal punishment now."
"The thing that I would say is the difference between patience and tolerance," Holloday said. "They're young and sometimes they make young people's mistakes and we're very patient when those things are made, including this. But we're not tolerant of bad behavior or defiance."
The other girls father, Ig DeRamus...
But the policy was 6” above the knee and the dress was clearly way, way above that.
At least my girls shopped the second hand store and got some really nice dresses when they went to their proms.
I was on my first sip of coffee and read the title as:
“Senior Suspended For Skimpy porn Dress”
That dress is just not right for her figure. The dress itself is out of proportion. Those straps are too weak.
Do something with the hair!!! it’s a mop!
Maybe a boob belt would have helped. It surely makes Michelle a cover girl icon for supermarket mags.
The dress could easily accommodate busts of a smaller size, just not hers. When buying a formal, you not only have to make sure the dress size is correct, but that ALL aspects of the dress fit your body type.
I was thinking the same bout the “breastbone” thing, however, her cleavage could have gotten her in a great deal of trouble. Unfortunately, my daughter is only a size 5 and the poor dear has a terrible case of “DDs”, but she does not wear clothes that are revealing. We will have a challenging time finding an appropriate prom dress for her.
“If I wants my daughter to dress like a Ho, she should be able to dress like a Ho!”
Holy cow! Which street corner in Houston does she normally work?
Paddling for high school seniors? That’s just wierd...
i fully expect to see this on Bill Oreilly’s is it LEGAL segment! LOL!
DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Zoot! Oh, she is a naughty
person, and she must pay the penalty — and here in Castle Anthrax, we
have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon. You
must tie her down on a bed and spank her!
GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!
DINGO: You must spank her well. And after you have spanked her, you
may deal with her as you like. And then, spank me.
VARIOUS GIRLS: And spank me.
And me.
And me.
DINGO: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking!
GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!
DINGO: And after the spanking, the oral sex.
GIRLS: Oral sex! Oral sex!
GALAHAD: Well, I could stay a BIT longer.
“It is short and it does show cleavage. Its called date bait.”
And what is the percentage of unwed pregnancies in the black community?
SHEESH! At least it’s not about a guy.
Her mom will wonder where her wig has gone...
it’s positively pythonesque! LOL!
Solution: Privatize all proms.
Get the government out of the business of running proms.
High school seniors getting paddled? What, are they trying to make RNC Young Eagles out of them?
The dress appears to stick out in the front of the skirt. That happens when it’s hiked up too high. I suspect that she pulled it up in the front for this interview.
Here's another...
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