On a warm and summery day, Jef Rouner decided to let his daughter wear a full-length rainbow-patterned summer dress to nursery.
But, when he went to pick her up later that afternoon, he discovered that she had been forced to wear a T-shirt over her dress and jeans underneath because she was technically violating her school's dress code.
"There are literally no male-specific guidelines anywhere on that list," he writes.
"I mean prohibitions against exposing the chest or torso could hypothetically apply to boys except that they don't. They don't sell boys clothes that do that."
Jef went on the to defend his daughter's dress, which he says she was very excited to wear that day.
"I didn't pick up my daughter's dress at My First Stripperwear," he said firmly.
"It's not repurposed fetish gear from a store for very short people. It's a dress from a mall chain store in her size.
“She's worn it to church, and in the growing heat she was looking forward to wearing it a lot because it's light and comfortable.
“You know what really grills my cheese about it? It’s not even the shirt they made her put on over her top, it’s the [jeans] they made her wear underneath.
“Because the top part of the dress apparently exposed the immoral sinfulness of her bare shoulders she also had to pull on jeans - even though her legs remained completely covered - as part of her punishment.”
Jef, like many other parents, went on to express his disbelief that these restrictive dress codes are still in place in 2015 – and begin at such a young age.
"We still live in a country where someone can decide the shoulders of, and I can't stress this enough, a five-year-old girl are so distracting that they must be sent away and decently hidden," he said.
"Now I have this child, the one that argues scientific points about everything from the top speed of land animals in Africa to the classification of the planets with me endlessly, wordlessly accepting that a dress with spaghetti straps, something sold in every Walmart in America right now, is somehow bad. Wrong. Naughty," he continues.
"And most importantly that the answer is to cover up."
According to the Huffington Post, Rouner says he plans to discuss the school’s decision to ban his daughter’s dress at an upcoming parent conference.
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