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Survey of Texas districts’ prom dress codes highlights administrators’ concerns with revealing dresses, tattoos, and piercings

According to the Cleburne Times-Review survey of local school districts’ prom dress codes, most ban excessive displays of flesh. Alvarado High School, which recently held its prom, instructed students not to wear dresses that showed their midriffs, excessive skin or dresses that sat higher than 4 inches above the knee. On the other hand, Joshua High School, which will hold its prom later this month, has no prom dress code.

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Civil rights organization calls on Alabama high school to stop censoring student’s speech in support of gay rights

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has sent a letter to to Brookwood High School (BHS), the Tuscaloosa County School Board, and the school system’s superintendent demanding that they respect students’ constitutional rights or face a federal lawsuit, says al.com. According to SPLC’s letter, BHS student Elizabeth Garrett was forced to remove a sweatshirt she was wearing because school officials believed its message supporting gay rights was potentially disruptive. The letter also seeks to overturn a policy prohibiting same-sex dates at the school prom.

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Two students subjected to search at prom sue New Mexico school district

Two female students at Capital High School (CHS) have filed a class action suit in federal court against Santa Fe Public Schools over being searched at their school’s prom, says the Santa Fe New Mexican. The suit alleges that SFPS violated the students’ constitutional rights by performing “overly intrusive searches” of their bodies and belongings at the school’s prom last month.

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Michigan school district decides to allow students to vote for gender neutral prom court

After a controversy in the fall of 2010 over a transgendered female student who ran for homecoming king, the Detroit News says, the Mona Shores School District has announced Mona Shores High School students will not vote for a prom king or queen, but instead a two-person prom court. The decision came after the Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-MI) threatened to sue for suppression of free speech and gender discrimination.

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Nebraska school district revises school dance attendance policy after problems with sexually suggestive dancing

Southwest High School in Lincoln, Nebraska has implemented a new policy this school year stating that all school dances except prom are for Southwest students only, says the Lincoln Journal Star. The new policy stems from a problem all Lincoln Public Schools have been dealing with for years: dirty dancing.

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Student accepts Mississippi school district’s offer to settle suit over same-sex prom date ban

A lesbian student, who was prohibited from bringing a same-sex date to her high school prom, has agreed to settle her suit against the district district, says the Associated Press.

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