Hoping to avoid a digital age wardrobe malfunction, school board officials here decided to keep a middle school principal’s controversial strapless-dress ban for next month’s eighth-grade dance.
As a compromise, board members said they will allow single-strap gowns and clear spaghetti straps at the June 12 off-campus dinner-dance.
The issue has divided this small Hunterdon County community of 16,000 about 35 miles west of New York City and resulted in the district canceling another dance scheduled April 26 at Readington Middle School after the principal received an emailed threat. Police did not consider the threat credible.
“Kids are fighting among themselves and saying, ‘Your mother said this’ and ‘My mother said that,’ ” said Angie Gibble, mother of a middle school student who thought the cancellation of Friday’s dance at the school, which has an enrollment of about 800, was a passive-aggressive message from administrators to say: “Keep fighting us (and see what happens).”
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