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Testing School Limits III

Lola Stonehouse went to school in Winnipeg, Man., Canada. Since it was about 30 C (86 F) outside, she wore a pink and orange ankle length sun dress to school. The school sent a message back to Lola’s parents: the dress was “inappropriate” for school. The school’s director said she was following the dress code of the Pembina Trails School Division, but the division said it has no dress code, and besides: the nursery school was acting independently. Lola is 3 years old. “It was just a straightforward simple sun dress that had crisscrossed straps on her shoulders, and apparently they were too thin,” said Lola’s father, Jamie Stonehouse. “That’s all we were told. We weren’t given any specific details or anything, other than her straps on her dress weren’t two inches wide, therefore it was deemed inappropriate.” Stonehouse pointed out that two inch wide straps on a girl her size “would pretty much be like her wearing a T shirt.” (MS/CBC) ...If there were two straps at least an inch wide, would that count?