Violet Burkhart was two hours from finishing her last day of high school when teachers pulled her aside and sent her home for a dress that was “half an inch” too short. According to WSOCTV, Central Davidson High School’s dress code doesn’t allow “Shorts, skirts, skorts and dresses shorter than mid-thigh.”
While mid-thigh seems to be difficult to quantify and open to broad interpretation, a point that’s reinforced by Violet’s account of wearing the dress several times earlier in the school year without being sent home, it seems clear that her dress (pictured below) is long enough by any reasonable standard.
Her mom, upset with the decision on the part of the school to ruin her daughter’s last day as a senior, decided to respond to the disciplinary action by wearing the dress to her daughter’s graduation. Amy Redwine, her mother, said, “If I thought this dress was inappropriate, I would have never allowed her to wear the dress.”
In a show of solidarity for her daughter, she elected to wear the dress to her graduation ceremony, stating,
“If her dress is too short, then my dress is too short and I’m going to wear it in front of everybody and be proud just like she should have been able to on her last day.”
Here’s a photo?her mom posted showing them together at graduation, dress and all:
Dress codes have recently sparked a wave of backlash across the nation, as girls ask a very direct and fantastic question — as the weather starts to heat up, why are we telling girls to cover their skin, rather than telling our boys to stop objectifying and depersonalizing women?
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