A 10-year-old South Carolina student was disciplined for wearing a tank top to school on a sweltering day and forced to put on a jacket, an NBC affiliate reports. The girl's mother, Alicia Rogers, said the principal particularly objected to the shirt's crisscross straps in the back. Rogers wants an apology for "the humiliation" her daughter felt when other students asked her "why she was wearing a jacket while sweating." The mother says the fifth grader now feels anxious about the clothes she wears to school.
Rogers is calling for a change in the way the school handles dress code violations, criticizing the fact that nobody called to alert her of the situation or to ask her to bring a change of clothes.
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