Parents Fighting Rule Against Strapless Dresses at Middle School Dances
Not the school's call, they say
The eighth-graders' annual dinner dance here has become a lesson in civil liberties and gender studies after a middle school principal banned strapless dresses.
She considers them too distracting for boys.
h/t Hugh Akston
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Typical Hugh... concerned with strapless dresses on tweens. Clearly, they are distracting to young boys.
Look, I was just doing my daily search for "middle schooler strapless dress" and I happened to come on this story okay?