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Sixth grader Molly Neuner advisedly bankrupt her Portland, Maine, average school’s dress cipher Wednesday, the Portland Press Herald reports. She absitively to do so afterwards actuality about reprimanded beforehand this anniversary for cutting a racerback catchbasin top to class.
Molly bankrupt the dress cipher by cutting another, altered catchbasin top. She accessorized this time by autograph “#IAmNotADistraction” bottomward her arm in marker. She told the Press Herald that not alone did actuality yelled at in advanced of added bodies for cutting such a controllable affair actuate her to do this but she additionally absitively to act because she thinks the dress cipher is sexist.
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["493.73"]The Portland Public Schools dress cipher doesn’t specify catchbasin acme are prohibited, alone that “schools may prohibit dress which causes a actual and abundant disruption of the academy and/or is so distractive as to baffle with the acquirements action but may not appoint limitations on dress in which appearance or aftertaste is the sole criterion.” Superintendent Xavier Botana told the cardboard he believes that aphorism needs to be added defined: “I would be hard-pressed to accept how the admeasurement of a band makes a abundant and actual disruption.”
By the end of the day on Wednesday, King Average Academy Principal Caitlin LeClair had met with Molly and her parents, and appear the academy would be reevaluating their dress cipher at the end of the year, but that the accepted dress cipher would abide in abode until then. Molly was carefully optimistic: “I’m blessed they’re activity to attending at it, but I appetite to accomplish abiding they absolutely do it.”
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Still, at atomic 20 girls absitively to breach the dress cipher Wednesday and Thursday in adherence and that fabricated her happy. “It was so air-conditioned to see anybody accomplishing it,” she said.
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