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i heard about this on the radio, so I had to find out what the details were.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1898773~Girl_sues_for_right_to_wear_tux_to_prom.html
I'm honestly kind of tired of stories like this because I think it's been done and schools should have learned their lesson by now. You don't get to tell some kid what they can/cannot wear (outside of violence, sexual acts, drugs, and foul language) if it's part of their gender expression because there are federal laws the prevent that sort of discrimination, and kids know it - especially activisty gay/lesbian kids.
I mean, if kids are suing their parents for grounding them (in Canada) and other kids have sued schools for simmilar gender restrictions (in America), then why would this public school think they'd be able to get away with telling this girl what she can and cannot wear?
Kids are so empowered by the law these days you can't do anything to trample their rights. I'm still waiting for the day some 12 year old presses charges against the school bully for assault and battery. Because that would have been something I would have done if I'd known the assault and battery charges when I was little. But people don't tell you these things when your a kid. "kids will be kids" and "just let them work it out of their system" right? right?
I would have had the b$%&*es arrested let me tell you. :)
then again, I don't understand why it matters what she shows up in. It's her prom as long as she doesn't start a food fight, or mow everyone down with an m-16, why does it matter?
I have pictures of my senior prom and the girls dancing with their dresses hiked up to their waste as they "drop it like it's hot". And there was Matt who wore a cowboy hat and a tie-die shirt under his prom jacket. But no one died, we didn't trash the place hosting it, and there weren't any fights - so why does it really matter?
Dress code is "formal attire". Tuxes are formal attire. - for men, but I mean I've got a friend who married her wife in a tux so women wear them. And pants use to be only for men too. Wasn't there a time when a woman wearing pants was "asking for it" because pants were too provocative. and that judge who ruled pants too hard to get off so the vicitm would have to help her attacker take them off in order to rape her. Now no one batts an eye at women in pants. maybe tuxes are going the same direction?
I just don't see the big deal.