De'Chara Moore, Kristen Thomas, and Kandace Owen are recent graduates of Mesquite High School. One of the Seniors' rites of passage each May is a Senior breakfast. These three girls and several others were denied admittance to the breakfast because they were dressed inappropriately.
Accompanying the newspaper article reporting this story was a photograph of the three girls. I immediately thought to myself, "They went too far. Aside from Kandace's dress being about 6 inches too short, the girls look very nice to me." True, they were told they couldn't wear sundresses which the girls had on, but each had on a sweater or shrug to cover her bare shoulders.
But then I read the article. The students were told that sundresses, even with jackets or cover-ups, would not be allowed. These girls chose to push the limit. Kristen said she called her mother when she was turned away, and she "almost started crying." Kandace said, "And we missed everything." Well, that's the breaks, girls, when you willfully flaunt the rules.
The other sad indictment here comes from the father of another girl who was turned away for the same reason as the aforementioned trio. "A friend of hers wore the exact outfit to church on Sunday and nobody even looked at it," he said. Yeah, I've noticed lately on Sunday morning you can't tell whether you're in church or at a singles bar.
"Breakfast is missed by seniors whose atire didn't make grade." The Dallas Morning News; May 7, 2011; p. 1B.
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