IS THIS ANY WAY TO IMPROVE THE STATE OF EDUCATION?

I agree with banning short skirts, low-cut blouses, certain types of grooming or any other distraction from the classroom, but this was an outside event. With the dismal state of education in America, you would think that school officials would be more concerned about smarting-up their students instead of worrying about what they will be wearing to a social function.
　
FIFTY HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BANNED FROM THEIR OWN HOMECOMING DANCE BECAUSE THEIR DRESSES WERE ‘TOO SHORT’
　
Mail Online
September 28, 2010
　
Fifty high school girls were turned away from their own homecoming dance because their dresses were too short, it has been revealed.
　
Pupils at Mesquite High School, in Dallas, had spent hundreds of dollars on their dresses and were left in tears after being refused entry.
　
Angry parents were escorted off the school premises by security guards after they tried to point out some girls were being allowed in with identical dresses.

Christina Barnes, 17, spent $400 dollars on her dream dress and worked extra shifts as a part-time waitress to save up enough money to pay for it.
　
Her mother Sarah told CBS11: 'It was horrible. It was horrible. She was in tears. All her friends were in tears.'
　
Jaclynn, also 17, said that she was told: 'Your dress is too short, your dress shows too much cleavage.
　
A poster for the school dance called for 'modest' attire and cautioned against wearing anything 'too short' or 'too tight'.
　
But several of the girls said they were unaware of the warning because their dates bought tickets for them.
　
Around 900 bought tickets for $30 each.
Christina's father Bryan said he felt insulted by school officials.
　
'I'm one of the most conservative dads out there... it's questioning my integrity, my judgement.'
　
Parents of some of the girls took photographs of other pupils being allowed to enter the dance wearing apparently shorter skirts.
　
Christina has now demanded an apology and a refund for the dance she could never attend.
　
She said: 'I don't get that back. It's my senior year, my last year of high school.'
　
Ian Halperin, a school district spokesman, said that the policy for outside events is longstanding and that students had been told what to expect.
　
'The students had been told all week long during the announcements there would be a dress code,' he said.
　
'The whole point of this is it should have not been a surprise to any young lady that her dress would be reviewed before entering the dance.'