Posted on 04/15/2007 6:09:25 PM PDT by Ellesu
That girl shouldn’t wear anything more revealing than a Van!
A PICTURE of a dress means NOTHING. That alone should be clear. When your wife looks at a catalog etc. at PICTURES of bathing suits or dresses etc. - when she tries them ON she may not like it. The critical test is PUTTING THE DRESS ON and SEEING how it looks on the girl.
Apparently the rules aren’t vague. OTHERS were NOT turned away. OBVIOUSLY they UNDERSTOOD the rules.
“The girl made the call (clearly with her parents’ backing) based on the official’s prior approval of a picture of the dress.”
Parental approval does NOT matter. It is SCHOOL approval that matters. A PICTURE doesn’t matter. It’s HOW the dress looks on the girl and apparently they saw it as too revealing.
“How could the official approve a picture of a halter style dress — whether on a hanger or a skinny flat-chested model — and then turn the girl away for wearing the same dress, based on a rule that prohibits clothing “that exposes the student’s back”?”
A PICTURE doesn’t SHOW how it will look on the girl. A “skimpy flat chested girl as you put it - the SAME dress will LOOK differently on a more endowed girl as this girl is.
“When 1/5th of the girls going to the prom are turned away, and it includes girls dressed like the two in this picture, something’s wrong.”
I might have to read further in the article. I don’t remember seeing anything about 1/5 turned away.
“This is a PUBLIC school and it is clearly attempting to enforce standards of dress that aren’t consistent with the community’s standards.”
Perhaps they don’t want LOW standards and problems. You can’t define what a “Community standard” is either.
“It’s one thing to have a fairly strict dress code for regular school days to maintain concentration and give kids a clue about what’s acceptable in a workplace, but what’s appropriate for an evening party isn’t the same as what’s appropriate for the office or for school.”
Most PUBLIC schools really don’t want problems. Maintaining less revealing attire will lead to less problems.. Males are VISUAL and they’d like to minimize those kinds of issues. You don’t have to be a mental giant to figure that one out. These are JUST KIDS. They aren’t going to the “office” or the “workplace”. They are KIDS going to a dress up affair.
“These kids and their families have been through an awful lot the past couple of years, and certainly don’t deserve to be jerked around like this. I predict the school officials who participated in this will get sued and lose.”
It’s NOT about the “parents”. I don’t know what you mean by being “jerked around”. I also don’t know what you mean by these parents going through allot thees “past couple of years”. ALL this school is doing is trying to have some standards that don’t show cleavage as would NOT be allowed in school.
An example; My friend has two daughters, nice young ladies both of them. One is built like a stick and pretty flat on top. The other is a little over her ideal, but what stands out is her bust line. We are talkin’ huge here. Like two zeppelins in a dead heat. Giant.
So basically the dress that would look very nice on the one sister looks like terrible on the other.
You just can’t clip out a pic of a dress and since it looks great on the sz 4 assume it will look appropriate on the sz 16 with the 48 inch bust line.
Me too. I thought my DSL went south on me!
GEESH!
I just read through the whole thing, as YOU SHOULD TOO:
“But Jefferson Parish schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski said Gardner did nothing wrong and that the ones in error were girls who showed up with dresses that didn’t comply with a district code that says: “A student will not wear clothing that exposes the student’s back, chest or midriff.”
“The policy, which also strictly restricts any use of fishnet or see-through clothing, has been in effect for years and is included in a handbook that parents sign, Nowakowski said. He added that students who didn’t gain admittance Friday night were given a chance to leave and alter their dresses to bring them into compliance, and that some did just that.”
“Twenty to 25 girls “didn’t meet the code and so they were turned away because they didn’t want to fix the dress in order to come inside,” Nowakowski said.”It (the dress) should have covered the breast, and that’s not what happened last night.”
Good grief!
These girls could have gone home and changed.
The rules are CLEAR:
“A student will not wear clothing that exposes the student’s back, chest or midriff.”
It’s been in effect for YEARS and PARENTS SIGN the handbook stating such!
These girls gambled and LOST. TOo bad.
Follow the rules like everyone else.
Can’t open, dang it. But I saw those a couple of years ago anyway. LOL!
Oh my! I would think she would have wanted to cover that stuff up, not let it all hang out!
There was definitely some cleavage on display at the prom.
pssst! She’s 17.
“Mod” was the style! Dresses got shorter not lower, LOL.
Those dresses in your picture don’t look at all out of line. Seem to be entirely reasonable.
Embarrassed that her dress is judged to be too revealing, but not embarrassed over the fact that she’s wearing it to begin with. Her embarrassment is misplaced if you ask me.
They make little jackets to cover this stuff up.
If nothing else...use a little sweater.
Maybe she was embarrassed because they told her that her chest was too big. ? Who knows?
You could have gone all night and NOT posted THAT.
“reading the comments posted below the article, school needs to worry more about teaching the students to spell, not their dress wear.”
This is such poor writing that it is scary. This girl is graduating this year. The parents should be more concerned with their lack of education. wow!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3e2_1174165560
Same here with a cable connection. Must be giving the "dial ups" fits.
They won’t keep a sweater or jacket on and just post pone getting asked to leave. If this event was so important to the girls then they’d have read the rules and wore something that wasn’t an issue. It’s still a SCHOOL event and they have the right to a dress code that has been in effect for YEARS. Parents SHOULD be reading the handbook they sign in these rules, if it’s important to them ... .
I’ve seen prom dresses that I would deem inappropriate. I don’t see anything wrong with either of those.
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