MEMPHIS (NBC) -- A high school senior from West Tennessee says she was banned from attending her prom because her dress resembled a Confederate battle flag, WMC-TV in Memphis reported.
"It wasn't done to offend anybody," Texanna Edwards, 18, told the NBC station. "It was done just for the sole fact that I just wanted a rebel flag dress because I thought it was cool."
But officials at Gibson County High School officials in Dyer, Tenn., did not agree with her coolness factor. Principal James Hughes declined comment to WMC.
"He told us y'all have to leave because the dress is inappropriate," Edwards said. She said that last year she wore a camouflage dress to the prom without any objection.
She said she doesn't understand why the dress was banned because students in school wear rebel flag shirts, hats and belt buckles.
"I don't see the point of not letting someone in their one and only prom, senior prom. The year they graduate. Doesn't represent anything bad," student Cody Beasley told WMC-TV.
Gibson County Special School District Superintendent Eddie Pruett,
however, said a teacher had warned Edwards months ago that the dress
might be inappropriate, The Associated Press reported. Pruett said there
have been racial tensions at the school in recent years and the high
school principal worried the dress could have caused more, according to
the AP. 
She wore that to prom? How trashy. If theyre are racial tensions in the school already, why fuel the fire? Thats just asking for trouble and since it is a school sponsored event then the school has the right to make that decision. If she wants to be an idiot and wear it anyway, then thats on her.
Quoting TAG2.0:She wore that to prom? How trashy. If theyre are racial tensions in the school already, why fuel the fire? Thats just asking for trouble and since it is a school sponsored event then the school has the right to make that decision. If she wants to be an idiot and wear it anyway, then thats on her.
Quoting Punkie74:
If there are racial tensions in the school and they feel the confederate flag fuels that they should ban it as part of the school dress code not make the decision at the door to the prom.
Quoting TAG2.0:
She wore that to prom? How trashy. If theyre are racial tensions in the school already, why fuel the fire? Thats just asking for trouble and since it is a school sponsored event then the school has the right to make that decision. If she wants to be an idiot and wear it anyway, then thats on her.
Where does it say the school lets kids wear that attire?
While I don't see it as a prom dress, I am on her side. If the kids can wear things with the Confederate Flag on them to school, then the prom should be no different.
Quoting TAG2.0:
Quoting Punkie74:
If there are racial tensions in the school and they feel the confederate flag fuels that they should ban it as part of the school dress code not make the decision at the door to the prom.
Quoting TAG2.0:
She wore that to prom? How trashy. If theyre are racial tensions in the school already, why fuel the fire? Thats just asking for trouble and since it is a school sponsored event then the school has the right to make that decision. If she wants to be an idiot and wear it anyway, then thats on her.
Where does it say the school lets kids wear that attire?
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- steveiguana
on May. 7, 2012 at 9:40 AM