Florida Girl Banned from Her Prom for Wearing a Suit

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NBC News. “I said, ‘Sophie doesn’t wear dresses. She doesn’t like to wear dresses — it’s just not her.’ And [the vice principal] said, ‘Well, unfortunately, those are the rules.'”Sophie said she hadn’t thought it would be a problem to wear a suit to prom.

In fact, she’s previously worn suits to other events, including a Valentine’s Day dance in February.“I was thinking I could possibly argue that with them if they said that I couldn’t come in, but I ended up being just kind of too shocked and nervous to really say anything to them,” she told NBC News.“They have never denied her before but we were willing to take that risk because that’s just who Sophie is,” Holly said. “I’m very proud of her for taking that risk.”Holly did some research and found a court decision from 2022, in which the 4th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals found that a charter school’s dress code requiring girls to wear skirts and prohibiting them from wearing pants violated Title IX’s prohibitions on sex discrimination.The school in the case, Charter Day School, a K-8 school in Leland, North Carolina, appealed, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, allowing the decision to stand.Although Holly doesn’t plan to take any legal action against the school, she hopes it changes its dress code.