Anywho-
Tinker vs. Des Moines applied to this situation: the school was in the wrong. I dont see this disrupting the classroom since it was an extracurricular activity. Students' Freedom of Speech & Expression has been protected by the courts for years. She should have been allowed to wear her dress.
http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=849
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The students in Tinker did not disrupt the school day with their protest activity. They merely wore black armbands over their shirt-sleeves to show their disagreement with a policy of the United States government. They did not interrupt classes or walk out of them; they did not conduct a sit-in in the school's administrative offices. They did not block the hallways, allowing only those who expressed agreement with them to pass. Despite the peaceful, nonviolent nature of the activity, the school officials panicked and suspended students from school as though they had engaged in the sort of disruptive behavior mentioned above.
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The student did not disrupt the school day with her dress. She merely wore a tacky dress to show her sentiments on the South. She did not interrupt classes or walk out of them; she did not conduct a sit-in in the school's administrative offices. She did not block the hallways, allowing only those who expressed agreement with them to pass. Despite the peaceful, nonviolent nature of the student's dress, the school officials panicked and barred the student from prom as though she had engaged in the sort of disruptive behavior mentioned above.