13 Y.O. Girl Sent Home From Graduation For Wearing "Revealing Dress"

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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 Eyewitness News 5's Brian Hamrick 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.

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/education/3306732/detail.html

But then again, getting me in a dress is almost as hard as getting our Commander-in-thief to say something intelligent...

Oh, nevermind.

"I don't think nothing was wrong with the dress"...

Oh, English...you poor, dead language.

8th grade...my first Shakespeare class....and an English teacher that I thought came from the depths of hell to make my life miserable.

Thank you, Mrs. Roth, whereever you may be.

edjumacating our children under Bush, aren't we?

...to Afghanistan

girl wore the same dress there would be no problem. Shite! Built like that at 13!!!! What are they feeding her. :scared:

Wow. Hooters like that. Thirteen years old.

that way.

unseemly... Poor girl, nothing wrong with her dress. Perhaps if schools paid more attention to things besides students' cleavage, school would work a little better.

Bazooms are getting bigger every year, and earlier.

haircut.

My son was so afraid to get in trouble for his hair covering his ears, (long, to the school, I guess) that he cut (read: chopped) them himself. Not a big deal, but, it surprised me. He is in public school though. I told him, that he should have them call me next time. ;)

I personally don't have a problem with that dress, but if the dress code says no cleavage, I should think the mom and daughter ought to have realized that dress wasn't going to work.

How long was it? How tight? A better way to avoid the "appropriate dress" problem is to have each dress approved by a dress committee. That's what's done at the private high school my kids attend, where the girls where long white dresses for graduation. (The boys were tuxedos) There are supposed to be no spaghetti straps and no strapless, but the year I was on the graduation committee, we decided to overlook that rule and trust the good taste of the girls and their moms. (The real reason for approving each dress is to make sure that number one, each dress really is pure white as per tradition, and second that no two girls chose the same dress.) Two girls went strapless. In my personal opinion one of the two really didn't look good in strapless (she was quite overweight) but that's a personal style issue, and it was otherwise a perfectly fine dress on a young lady who was going to be hard to fit anyway.

The real underlying problem here is that some adults (like this principal, who of all people should know better) forget that some 13 year olds are sexually mature with well developed bodies, while others haven't hit puberty at all. The young lady in question is one of the former, and for her the no-cleavage rule is quite frankly going to be very difficult to adhere to in the kind of style of dress that's otherwise going to work.

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there's nothing wrong with that dress.

A general fear of teens in general.

or school official could've solved it in 5 seconds flat!

1. chiffon scarf
2. safety pin
3. corsage

applied quickly to inch the neckline up a notch or two.

END of "problem"!

Sheesh!

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get me in trouble.

with her education. Don't they teach grammar in the schools anymore? ("I don't think nothing was wrong with the dress," eighth-grader Dannielle Fuqua said).

After four years of Bush*, maybe I'm just a little sensitive....

And, I agree. The dress only captured attention because she is more well endowed than most girls her age. I'm sorry for her that she has been so embarrassed by this incident, though.

I was one those girls that matured early .

What is a real shame is on someone built different
this dress probably wouldn't of been a problem for
the school .

The dress is pretty .

In Cincinnati.

Is anybody here really surprised?

There's nothing new about this. It's Cincinnati! And it's a private school!

I feel bad for the girl, don't get me wrong ... but come on. If it was a public school, I'd be on the soapbox. Private schools, however, can make any rules they want about what kids can wear when. Most of them are pretty strict about it, especially in Cincinnati. This can't have been a great shock to her. They sent a letter home saying 'no cleavage' -- did Mom not read it?

They used to send kids home from my (Greater Cincinnati area) public school for wearing pants with belt loops and not wearing a belt.

I don't think nothing was wrong with her grammar, neither...

"There ain't nothing wrong with my grammar - she's back home with my gran'pa!".

Ho ho ho.

P.

rather subdued for 8th grade graduation. I just spent Saturday helping my 8th grader pick out a dress for graduation. Of course, we saw many of her friends and mothers while shopping. Some of the dresses picked were much more revealing than that one. I'm Ok with my daughter's choice. :shrug:

You pay to go to private school, if you wanna show off the twins, go back to Johnny Bench Middle School. Enroll in English while you're at it.

And yes, I agree that a flat 13 year old wouldn't have caused the furor and I agree with the poster above about the inherent fear of burgeoning teen sexuality, but that's why the school makes the rules against things like exposed cleavage, right? The reason a lot of parents pay for private school is to avoid the Victoria's Secreting of their children before their time.

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It looks like most thinking people side with Danielle......

Again, we're talking about a private school's guidelines for decency, not the general public's. Looking at the sales figures, the general public thinks Abercrombie & Fitch thongs for tweens is okay, but a private school probably wouldn't allow those either. A private school either gets to set its own standards, or they don't.

And is it thinking people who are siding with her or just people who loves them some underage boobies?

we were ordered (the boys) to wear black shoes, with black socks that matched. yes, they inspected our ankles.

silly rules, but everyone is told about them ahead of time.

I see what kids wear today, in school, and its ridiculous. Boys prancing around with their pants below their genitals and girls with their pubic hair almost showing. Pleeeze!

so I shaved my head.

:shrug:

:D

Kudos to you! :yourock:

She wore the dress to Confirmation, which takes place IN CHURCH. They say nothing.

She wears that same dress to A SCHOOL FUNCTION, and they tell her it's too revealing.

Contradictions, anyone?

:grr:

That's all I'm going to say, because I think what the school did to this girl was pretty ridiculous.

You all can make fun of her speech or grammar, but that isn't the issue at hand.

arguement

13 years old is a bit young to be flaunting it, especially at a religious school function.

We weren't allowed sleeveless dresses, much less dresses that showed cleavage. But none of the girls in my class had that much cleavage to show. These days there are 13-year-olds who easily pass for twice their age.

Every school has at least one teacher who keeps a sweater on the back of her chair because she gets cold in class. All they had to do was lend her a sweater, a shawl, a coat - not send her home in disgrace.

BTW, my Catholic grammar school was very clear about what we could and couldn't wear - and that was back when minis were anything that showed more than the knees. A school principal should be aware enough of contemporary fashion to anticipate any issue and send out an announcement well before an event.