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“We don’t need to make our dress code more restrictive as long as breasts, butts and genitals aren’t hanging out of clothing,” one parent tells the county school board.
Johnston County’s new student dress code requirement that clothes must cover from the upper chest to the mid-thigh has drawn complaints that it’s sexist toward girls.
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