Though it's veered OT, this thread is still (to some extent) about the original subject at hand, so we'll leave it where it is for now.
In an effort to get it back on track I will mention that the local news here ran a segment on this bruhaha (sp?) last night, in which both the girl and her mother were interviewed. Yes, the girl is quite developed for someone her age, but when she opened her mouth the ignorance that came out of it (and no, I'm not referring to her accent but rather to her use of the language and what she was attempting to say) made her seem like an even younger spoiled [censored] (hard to believe that she's in 8th grade really). Her mother (not a looker) was even worse... she basically insisted that it's impossible 'these days' to find any kind of dress without a plunging neckline of some sort for a woman with big breasts... as if Walmart stores only stocked cleavage-baring outfits for anyone with a Dcup rack. Though her clip was brief, it didn't sound like her mother had much more in the way of language or logic than her daughter did.
Folks can rail against the represive or puritinical mores of her local school/community all they want, but when it comes right down to it local standards aren't unreasonable. The girl didn't HAVE to show off cleavage in order to appear in a class photo, and wearing a dress with a higher neckline wouldn't have infringed on her Consitutional rights in any way so far as I can see. Furthermore (now I'm sounding like an old codger, I knwo) what sort of parent lets their buxom 13 year old daughter go to school ANY day with exposed cleavage sufficient to make a Vegas lounge singer proud? Come on, though she may have the body of a 21 year old, that girl is 13... a [censored] emotionally and intellectually! Who could possibly think that the kind of attention such an outfit would undoubtedly attract would be a positive thing for even the most intelligent 13 year old, let alone one like her? The mother bought the dress and knew it was being worn and sent her off to school that way... the mother is to blame IMO.
You could tell from their attempts to cast themselves as victims during the interviews that some attorney has convinced them that they've got some kind of case against the school or school district. Ah, America!