NEWNAN, Ga. — A Coweta County teenager says her jeans nearly got her suspended from school.
Instead, her mother took her home and she missed school picture day.
“Very upsetting. I just think it’s so ridiculous,” is what Keeleigh Lennon thinks about what happened to her.
Lennon is just a few weeks into her freshman year at Newnan High School and it’s not starting off the way she had hoped.
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Lennon showed Channel 2's Justin Wilfon the pants she said got her in trouble.
“She said that I could go to in school suspension. Or I could call my mom to change my pants. Or I could wear pants that they were going to give me,” Lennon said.
Lennon told Wilfon she chose to go home on Friday, after school officials believed the holes in her jeans violated the school’s dress code.
She said officials even discussed putting duct tape over the holes or cutting the jeans into shorts.
"That just doesn't make any sense because I'm showing less skin in pants than I would in shorts," Lennon said.
A Newnan High School freshman told me the school threatened to put her in suspension today because these jeans violated the dress code. Fair? @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/GZ3wJEFYqf
— Justin Wilfon (@JustinWilfonWSB) August 25, 2018
A representative for Coweta County Schools said the district would not discuss this specific case, but did say that all students receive a copy of the dress code, which says “No student may wear clothes with holes above the knees”
But Lennon believes the holes in her jeans are on the knees, not above them.
“I think these are perfectly fine,” Lennon said.
“I don’t believe that girls or boys should be dressed provocatively. This is a place to learn but I don’t think knees constitute inappropriate,” Lennon’s mother, Brandis, said.
Lennon and her mother believe the district has better things to worry about.
“I think they should just be worried about our education and how we’re learning,” Lennon said
After she left, Lennon missed school picture day.
Lennon and her mother now plan to fight the dress code. They're hoping to rally support at a future school board meeting.
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