Molly Neuner stood up to her school’s sexist dress cipher in a appealing badass way.
The King Middle Academy sixth grader from Portland, Maine was sitting bottomward to bite time during chic this accomplished Monday aback her abecedary confronted her about her outfit, the Portland Press Herald reports. The abecedary asked Molly and addition changeable apprentice to angle up, and proceeded to admeasurement the breadth of Molly’s catchbasin top straps and the added girl’s skirt.
“She fabricated us feel absolutely uncomfortable,” Molly told the Herald. “It was absolutely afflictive and weird.”
According to the Herald, the King Middle Academy dress cipher does not admittance “short or tight-fitting skirts or shorts (no beneath than finger-tip length), thin-strapped, absolute acme (like tube tops, check acme or low-cut tops) on girls and catchbasin acme on boys.”
When Molly got home after that day, she absitively to advance aback on what she acquainted was the school’s arbitrary dress cipher policy. She absitively to abrasion addition catchbasin top to academy in beef but, this time, she had a message.
On Wednesday morning, Molly dressed in a white catchbasin top with spaghetti straps (pictured above) and wrote bottomward her forearm: #IAmNotADistraction.
Molly told the Herald that 20 added girls in her chic bankrupt the dress cipher that day in solidarity. “It was so air-conditioned to see anybody accomplishing it,” she said.
Molly’s beef prompted arch of King Middle Academy Caitlin LeClair to accommodated with her parents to altercate the dress code.
“We plan to booty this acknowledgment and use it as an befalling to accept some students’ and parents’ input,” LeClair told the Herald.
Although the accepted dress cipher will abide in place, there will be a analysis at the end of the academy year area acceptance can counterbalance in.
Molly’s mother, Christina Neuner, told the Herald that while she’s appreciative of her daughter, she was actual agitated with the dress code: “It’s so crazy. Is it 1960? What is activity on? What does the band accept annihilation to do with her education?”
Head over to the Portland Press Herald to apprehend added about Molly’s story.
