A DAD was left stunned after his 11-year-old daughter was handed an all-day detention by her school who said her outfit broke its dress code.
Clint Fore, a cop from Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi, said he was shocked when his daughter, Shiloh, arrived home saying she had been suspended from her school for the day.
West Wortham Elementary and Middle School deemed her clothing to be “inappropriate”.
Shiloh, a fifth grader at the school had gone to classes wearing black leggings and a baggy hoodie that came “almost down to her freaking knees,” her dad claimed.
When she arrived at school she said she was immediately stopped by the principal Michael Weaver who told her she had to spend the entire day in in-school suspension (ISS) because she had broken the school’s dress regulations.
Shiloh said she was just one of a number of students, all female, who had been stopped by the principal and given ISS for clothing violations.
She said she had been left feeling embarrassed and upset, saying being in ISS was “scary” and gave her “a lot of anxiety”.
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Shiloh told the Sun Herald: “My hand wouldn’t stop shaking. And I did not know what to do.”
Dad Clint fired off an angry email to the principal claiming his daughter had been treated unfairly and attached a photo of her in the clothes she had been wearing which had caused the suspension.
“Here we are in 2022 and girls have to worry about wearing outfits that aren’t even inappropriate,” he wrote.
“Young kids, especially girls at or around my daughter’s age are going through a bunch of changes. The last thing they need is somebody embarrassing them in the hallway for wearing something that is perfectly appropriate."
Shiloh’s mom, Ashton, also posted the photo on Facebook, writing: “West Wortham seems to think this is inappropriate enough to put my daughter in ISS for the day for a dress code violation without notifying her parents.”
The hoodie, which had been a gift from a family friend and teacher at the school, was “two sizes too big, almost,” Ashton claimed.
Ashton’s post attracted a lot of attention, with many comments coming from angry parents with kids at the school.
According to the Harrison County elementary school dress code, leggings can only be worn with a top “longer than finger tip in length.”
The photo of Shiloh in the sweatshirt appears to show it extending beyond her fingertips but she said her backpack caused it to ride up slightly higher than the officially approved length.
After doing a fingertip test, Shiloh claims Weaver “told me to pull up my hoodie so that he could see my shirt”, to see if it was long enough.
Weaver reportedly denied asking Shiloh to raise her hoodie in an email response to her dad Clint and refused to comment when approached by the Sun Herald.
The school district’s dress code policy says if a student is found to be dressed inappropriately then parents must be informed and asked to bring a change of clothing.
In the email, the principal apologised for not notifying Shiloh’s parents of her suspension but did not explain why Shiloh’s parents weren’t notified.
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