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Seriously?! What century are we living in?!

 

Fla. teen loses National Honor Society title over sundress - NY Daily News

 

A 17-year-old Florida honor roll student was stripped of her National Honor Society title for wearing a spaghetti-strap sundress while delivering an election victory speech, her outraged mother said.

 

Cameron Boland, a junior at Fort Myers High School, broke the dress code when she bared her shoulders on stage after being voted in as historian for her school's National Honor Society chapter, mom Caroline Boland told the Daily News.

 

"The lunacy of this is so, so crazy. It was not salacious. It’s a kid’s dress. Shoulders are a common sight in southwest Florida,” Boland said. “She put it best by saying, ‘What everyone is showing me here is my shoulders are more valued than my brain.’”

 

The straight-A teen, who is her class president and a basketball team captain, had offended students with her white, strappy American Eagle dress, district officials told WINK News.

 

The school disqualified her from the post, overturning the election in which she ran unopposed less than an hour after Cameron delivered her victory speech.

 

"She sent me a text saying she was 'super excited' because now she was historian for the whole county," Boland told Yahoo Parenting. "Forty-one minutes later she sent another text saying, 'I was disqualified because my shoulders were bared and that is a dress code violation.'"

 

Now Cameron and her mother are fighting the ruling. Caroline Boland went before the school board Tuesday, saying her daughter should be reinstated and issued an apology.

 

It's unclear if the decision was reversed. Boland said she hasn't heard from the district since.

 

The Lee County School District did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.

 

"It is clear the adults, the advisors involved made mistakes and no one wants to own up to those mistakes," Cameron told WINK News. "We want a reelection or given our spots back."

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I feel like maybe there is something more to this story, because it is unfathomable to me how wearing a dress could be an offense enough for expulsion from NHS.

 

I agree. Have there been dress code issues at the school? Has this student had previous issues and been warned? I would like to hear the rest of the story.

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I feel like maybe there is something more to this story, because it is unfathomable to me how wearing a dress could be an offense enough for expulsion from NHS.

 

Was she expelled? I thought she just gave up her position as Historian.

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National Honor Society is one of the biggest Jokes of High School.

 

I don't think it's a joke but it sure doesn't do anything for members that I know about. Just something else to put on a college or job application I suppose.

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Agreed, they make this big deal about it, and its really nothing.

 

I recall this being a faculty popularity contest during my days, and judging by how selection goes these days, I suspect the same. College application padding IMO, although I seriously don't think most that are applying need it.

 

I would rather have a kid that did good things and was a good student than a sash to keep up with on graduation night.

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I'm not a big fan of NHS. I also got booted from NHS, along with several other athletes. Our NHS advisor refused to accept the community service we performed as athletes (for example, I was very involved in Special Olympics). He let us know in late April that we were in danger of losing our status if we didn't do some NHS based Community service, a requirement that he hadn't told us about prior to then. With that being the middle of baseball season, along with the fact that I wanted to call his bluff, I didn't seek out other service opportunities. Sure enough, he lived up to his word and I didn't get to walk with the extra NHS bling. No big deal as I was already set for college and wouldn't be sending out any more applications.

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If you remember back about 16 years or so ago, there was a local KY school that was in a big todo with NHS because they didn't allow two specific individuals in. Was a really big todo at the time, well unfortunately I was part of that NHS group (not by choice.) I had specifically stated I wanted no part of NHS to begin with, yet was selected anyways, eventually quit/resigned whatever you want to call it.

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I'm not a big fan of NHS. I also got booted from NHS, along with several other athletes. Our NHS advisor refused to accept the community service we performed as athletes (for example, I was very involved in Special Olympics). He let us know in late April that we were in danger of losing our status if we didn't do some NHS based Community service, a requirement that he hadn't told us about prior to then. With that being the middle of baseball season, along with the fact that I wanted to call his bluff, I didn't seek out other service opportunities. Sure enough, he lived up to his word and I didn't get to walk with the extra NHS bling. No big deal as I was already set for college and wouldn't be sending out any more applications.

 

Ditto.

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