A Texas dad is upset school officials forced his 5-year-old daughter to wear a T-shirt over her dress.
Jef Rouner wrote a blog post for the Houston Press about the incident.
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Rouner writes that his daughter went to school in her rainbow sun dress. When she walked out of school, she’d covered the top of the dress with the T-shirt. She had also put jeans on. Rouner packed the extra clothes in case his daughter became cold.
But, when he asked if she’d felt chilly, his 5-year-old said she had to change because “spaghetti straps are against the rules.”
“She’s five. Cut her hair and put her next to a boy with no shirt on and she is fundamentally identical. I guess you could argue that a boy would not be allowed to wear a shirt with spaghetti straps either, but the day they sell anything like that in the boys section of a Target I will happily withdraw my objections,” Rouner writes.
Rouner says his daughter has worn the dress to church.
“You know what really grills my cheese about it? It’s not even the shirt they made her put on over her top, it’s the pants they made her wear underneath. It’s a full-length dress that she has to hold up to keep from getting wet in uncut grass. She even had a small set of shorts underneath because it was gym day,” he writes.