A PICTURE is not the same as wearing it PLUS the “picture” didn’t show the back.
You’re right with this:
“obviously doesn’t come anywhere near complying with the printed dress code and says it’s okay for the prom.”
And THAT is why they were turned away.
Perhaps you finally understand?
Never mind. You just like to argue and IGNORE the RULES that are in WRITING that BOTH, parents and kids HAVE in thier little handbooks that PARENTS signed.
A halter dress is a halter dress, and it’s obvious from a photo of the front that it’s a halter dress. And even if it wasn’t obvious, how can a school official look at a picture of a dress in which there’s no way to tell what the back looks like, and tell the student it’s okay, if it has to comply with a written rule that says it can’t expose the back?
And I guarantee that the vast majority of dresses on the girls who WERE admitted showed a good deal of exposed “back” and “chest”. These are PROM dresses. The rule doesn’t state how many square inches of back, or of chest, may be shown, even though clearly a lot more than zero is acceptable. It is therefore legally unenforceable due to vagueness. You can be sure there are other unwritten exceptions to the general dress code. E.g. no student is going to get turned away from participating in a school swim meet for wearing a modest bathing suit, even though a similar outfit would be clearly unacceptable for class.
One more time: This is a PUBLIC school. It is not at liberty to enforce rules capriciously, or to deny students admission to school-related events (in this case paid for largely, if not entirely, by the students and their parents) based on rules that no one can pin down the details of.
Um, sorry, but she brought a picture of both the front AND back. She asked the teacher, “are you sure, I’m not built like her. I’m you know...heavier on the top.”
The teacher told her it was beautiful and to go and buy the dress, and then she was turned away by this exact woman. Tell me this is right. Tell me you wouldn’t be raising hell if this was your daughter.