A FAMILY has been left fuming after their five-year-old daughter was sent home due to her outfit being “too revealing”.
With the kids now back at school after the six-weeks break, many parents will be dropping their little ones off to school for the first time.
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And although parting with your kids is undeniably hard, what you don’t want is for them to be sent straight back home again.
In a resurfaced Reddit post, a social media users shared a snap of Emily Stewart’s daughter Harmony, who the mum had sent to school in a spaghetti strap dress, one top of a pair of blue jeans.
However, when she got to school, the five-year-old had been told her outfit was “inappropriate”, and had been made to wear a pink t-shirt instead.
“As a mother, how am I supposed to teach my daughter to love and celebrate her body when she has people telling her she ‘needs privacy”, Emily wrote in a Facebook post as the time.
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“Why was her dress looked at as an inappropriate outfit to begin with? She is five, why is she being sexualised?”
The mum then revealed that her daughter had started crying following the incident, and found it “super embarrassing”.
“How do I teach a little girl that what she wears and her appearance is not nearly as important as her education and self development when things like this happen?” Emily added.
At the time, Emily’s post caused uproar, and Jason Healy, headmaster at Hugo Elementary, Minnesota, where Harmony attended, was forced to announce that the school was renewing it’s protocols.
Emily later updated her Facebook post to reveal that the school’s policy had been changed, and now no longer includes “the ability for adults to make determinations about the appropriateness of a child’s body”.
Now that the post has resurfaced online, it has garnered newfound attention from social media users.
Taking to Reddit, one person fumed: “We really are living in a clown world.”
A second person said: “Well, we’ve done it. We’ve gotten to the point where society ‘sl*t shames’ five-year-olds over spaghetti strap sundresses.
“Nice going, society.”
A third person said: “Even at 5 years old we’re telling girls what to wear.
“Disgusting.”
A fourth added: “That is certainly dumb…”
