New Jersey parents demand girls' right to bare arm — in strapless dresses

Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 10:02 in Psychology & Sociology

A New Jersey principal's ban on strapless dresses at a junior high school dance because they would be "distracting" to boys has enraged parents, who called on Tuesday for its reversal on the grounds it violates their daughters' constitutional rights. The dress code shreds the 14th Amendment right to equal protection since girls for the past six years have been wearing sleeveless fashions to t...    

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