Dress Code
It started as a dare. But Chiddix Junior High School ninth-grader Josh McElwee decided it was more an extension to a classroom lesson where students dressed in the native costumes of other nations: he came to school wearing one of his mother’s floral dresses. Principal Ed Heineman didn’t appreciate the learning experience, and sent McElwee home. The principal aside, “people really didn’t care, except some of the seventh- and eighth-graders,” McElwee said. Chiddix Junior High is located in the Illinois town of Normal. (RC/AP) ...Florals? In Winter? You march home right now, young man.Author’s Note: I read this story aloud on the CNN Morning News — my first TV appearance.
Original Publication Date: 05 March 1995
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 1.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 1.
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