Mom Left Fuming With Anger After School Makes 5-Year-Old Girl Cover Her Body And Change Clothes

By Samantha in Social Issues On 24th October 2021
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There are many rules and regulations in this world and while some are understandable there are many that are not only difficult to understand but one also struggle to find the meaning behind these useless regulations. 

An example to quote here is this article where a child aged only 5-years-old was forced to change her dress in school-based merely on some pathetic rule of the school. 

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Kindergarten is the age where a child is growing and learning to socialize, making friends, and is in the age of curiosity and innocence. However, this five-year-old Minnesota girl was treated badly by her school merely on the basis of what she wore. 

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Furious and upset with what her daughter went through, the child's mother Emily took to the internet to write an open letter to her daughter's school principal. 

In her letter, the mom welcomed the principal to join her on a shopping trip making it a point that current trends make it impossible to meet all the dress code requirements.

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What is amusing here is that one common justification given for strict dress codes is the possibility of 'distraction.' Now one is forced to think how a mere five-year-old's dress can possibly distract any decent human out there. 

This simply means that these schools are sexualizing little girls based on their own gross thinking and forcing these girls to comply with rules when they don't even know the meaning behind it at this innocent age. 

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The girl's mother took to social media to share her anger and frustration over what her daughter went through at school. 

In her recent Facebook post, Emily Stewart, says the treatment her daughter Harmony went through was unfair and ridiculous.

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She wrote a public post on social media 

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This is the beautiful dress that Harmony happily wore to her school 

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This is what she was forced to change into 

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Internet supported Emily 

 

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Harmony came home in a completely different dress and was told at school that her dress was not appropriate. Imagine the trauma the five-year-old must have gone through after being told this. 

Emily says her daughter came home crying her eyes out. As a fellow parent, it's tough to read about a young kid being put in this kind of situation. 

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Parents took to social media to support Emily 

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But Emily was not having any of it and she followed up her original post with a live video on Facebook where she slammed the school for their actions, described the situation, and outlined her next steps. She made it clear too she wasn't about to let the school board have the last word on this.

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It worked and Emily's social media post went viral 

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The best part is that Emily's post got heard not only by social media and TV channels, eventually, but it also put the school in the hot seat too and they were bound to take an action. The school board relented and changed its policies. Emily shared the good news in a follow-up post on Facebook a few days later.

This is the big win not only for Emily but for all the young girls out there who are forcibly sexualized at ages when they don't even know the meaning behind this term. 

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A big shout out to Harmony and her mom Emily on this win!!!

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