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Ohio boy fights for right to wear make-up to school
Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 11:17 AM
HAMILTON, Ohio (WLS) -- An eighth grade boy from Hamilton, Ohio, is fighting a school ban over wearing makeup to class. Thirteen-year-old Matt Allsup wears black eye makeup, lipstick and fingernail polish. Matt's mom supports her son's choice. They point out that every student at Matt's school is required to wear a character badge pledging to value uniqueness in others. But school administrators say Matt's makeup is against dress code and a distraction. "None of my classmates found it distracting or anything and it's not extreme. I don't see why I can't wear it," said Matt Allsup, wears makeup.
"He's being sexually discriminated against. Nowhere in the rules does it say that males can't wear make-up," said Mindy Ball, Matt's mother.
Matt and his mother plan to hire an attorney to take the issue to court.
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Some mother!! This lady should be doing her job and make her kid dress up like normal. What do they think public school is for? A halloween fashion show?
I applaud the principal of that school for rejecting the 'goth look'. That's the easiest way to make a school safe from mass killings. Now if only we could get a law...