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Sam Saurs, 15, of Port Orchard, Wash., told his mother he didn’t think wearing high heels would be too difficult. Her challenging response: try it for a day. He accepted her challenge, and went one further: he said he would also wear a dress. “I was pretty,” Sam said, but when he showed up at school, officials at Sedgwick Junior High School got ugly: they suspended him for the remainder of the school year. His mother said the school’s action was “offensive” since the student handbook doesn’t disallow dresses or heels. School officials backed down — a little: they reduced the suspension to three days, but still banned him from the ninth-grade dance. Sam is defiant. “If anything,” he said, “it makes me want to be more out there and more spontaneous and crazy.” (RC/KING Seattle) ...That kid is going to go far — but he may hobble.