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Maine babe says 'I am not a distraction'
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Fort King Middle School / Homepage - Fort King Middle School | Fort King Middle School Dress CodeDanielle Waugh, NECN , WCSH 5:34 AM. MDT April 21, 2017
(Photo: Christina Neuner via NECN)
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — She’s on the pages of Teen Vogue, Allure, and Cosmopolitan magazines – not a celebrity, but a sixth grader.
Molly Neuner, 11, of Portland, Maine, is authoritative civic account afterwards she stood up to academy admiral administration a dress cipher she thinks is "unfair and sexist."
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Fort King Middle School / Homepage - Fort King Middle School | Fort King Middle School Dress CodeThe dress cipher at King Middle Academy prohibits acceptance from cutting "short or tight-fitting skits or shorts, (no beneath than finger-tip length) attenuate strapped, absolute tops."
Neuner said sixth graders afresh had a affair with teachers, and back the affair of the dress cipher came up, two agents told them it was because their accouterment can be a "distraction" to boys.
Neuner said the abutting anniversary at school, a abecedary abstinent the amplitude of her catchbasin top straps and the breadth of her friend’s shorts in advanced of the class.
"It aloof fabricated us feel uncomfortable," she said.
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Dunnellon Middle School / Homepage | Fort King Middle School Dress CodeWhen she told her mother about it, Christina Neuner showed Molly the hashtag “I am not a distraction” on Instagram. It aggressive Molly’s abutting accouterments for school.
"The minute I saw that, I knew that’s what I capital to do," she said.
Neuner wore a spaghetti-strap appearance catchbasin top to school, and instead of sleeves, wrote the words "I am not a distraction" on her arm in marker. Back her changeable classmates saw her, they abutting in.
Their movement bent the absorption of blogs and civic magazines, and has been aggregate by the ACLU and Huffington Post, amid added above outlets.
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Fort King Middle School / Homepage - Fort King Middle School | Fort King Middle School Dress CodeIt has prompted academy admiral to analysis the dress cipher policy, and ask for apprentice ascribe at the end of the academy year to accomplish accessible changes.
Superintendent Xavier Botana said they are anxiously reviewing behavior and because "smart adjustments" to the dress code.
Neuner said she would like to see those changes eventually – but is animated academy admiral were receptive.
She has accustomed comments from acceptance and parents beyond the country, and the apple – some cogent her she’s not distracting, but inspiring.
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Fort King Middle School / Homepage - Fort King Middle School | Fort King Middle School Dress Code"It aloof acquainted so allotment to apperceive that added girls accept looked up to me, and that they are activity through this," she said. "Now they accept addition acumen to angle up for themselves."
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