Mesquite ISD stands by decision to turn away girls whose homecoming dresses were deemed too revealing

They didn't get kicked out of the dance because the dresses were too short, they were kicked out because they were horrible dresses they bought on discount racks.

I think it's cool they're enforcing a dress code and demanding some modesty but it was pure stupidity on their part not to set clear guidelines well in advance. They ended up making a mess of it from the sound of it.

The photo of the silver dress....as short as it is and being free-flowing you can bet she was showing off her "assets" all night in that thing. I wonder how many times she was asked to pick something up for people?

Have you seen some of the prom dress catalogs? I've seen more conservative stuff in Frederick's catalogs!

"The students had been told all week long during the announcements there would be a dress code," Halperin said. "The whole point of this is it should have not been a surprise to any young lady that her dress would be reviewed before entering the dance."

This right here tells me, the young lady KNEW they were going to check, and just thought she'd by pass it, and she got caught. IMO, she seems like she just didn't like getting caught.

geez, admin imposing their culture on someone else's cultural event...

haven't they seen Footloose?

"It was fingertip length," insisted Ebony, a 15-year-old sophomore. She held her hands to her sides, demonstrating the length of the purple dress she had worn Saturday night. "It wasn't too short."

But her mom had told her the dress was too short. So she didn't tell her mom she was turned away.

This to me shows that they were aware of the dress code and chose to ignore it. The mother should have put her foot down on this and told her daughter no.

This girl suffers from that disease I like to call the teenage years. That is they are under the condition were they believe that they are the first to go through something and all adults are idiots. Show me one girl who's been through a public high school with a dress code requiring fingertip length attire that cant fudge that length a little. Now playing devils advocate when I was going through school the girls would have their dresses picked out way longer than a week prior to the event. So that may have been an issue, not a justifiable one but still an issue

I think it is awesome. Next time cancel the damn event. Kids these days think they are born with some kind of bill of rights. Horse.... !!!! They are out of control and the parents are for the most part useless cowards or absentee. Hooray for the ISD. I have had enough of the kids gone wild. Allowing your daughter to dress like this weeks corner meat or your son to dress like he's some drug dealing thug. It not only looks bad it sets a dangerous precedent and sends all the wrong messages. Trust me the local criminal element doesn't have your liberal sensibilities mom&dad.

With three girls growing up, we had our share of "but everybody is wearing them like this" My answer to it, as middle daughter was going out the door was to grab the back of it, and pulled straight down. I told her "now it's a rag" No more discussions about mom and dad's dress code. Yes, she was shocked, made, and all the things a 16 year old goes through. Of course didn't speak to me till the next day, and we talked about it.

Uniforms for everyone, I agree.

When I went to my senior prom in 1973 we had a dress code. Back then there was a fashion trend toward "hotpants" which were very very short, tight shorts worn by woman. For the prom, there were dresses made with splits up the front with hotpants underneath. Looked sorta like a hooker uniform or something one would wear while on the pole. In any case, everyone was told not to wear them but people did anyway and got away with it. So what can you do. Kids need to express themselves. The two dresses I saw in the photos in the article were actually conservative considering some of the stuff I have seen. But a dress code is a dress code I guess.

Uniformty is akin to dictatorial control that robs people of individuality. Great armies, volanteer or conscription, police or fire departments are extraodinary and they each have a chain of comand need to be identity sensitive.. Civilian populations in free societies, free democracies, unless voluntary, should not be restricted to be uniform.

It should be the exclusive responsibility of parents to teach their children life etiquette.

You're right. Uniforms for everyone.

Finally some girls getting the short end of the dresscode stick