Planned Protest Over a Milford School's Leggings Policy Ends Quickly

A planned protest over whether pupils at West Shore Middle School could wear leggings or yoga pants to school fizzled out before it even really began on Tuesday.

Isabella “Bella” Ray, 12, planned to wear the popular leggings to school on Tuesday to make a point, and had started an Instagram campaign for other girls’ to do the same, the Connecticut Post reports.

At issue, was the school’s dress code policy, which prohibits spandex, but didn’t specifically address leggings, the Post reports.

Some girls ,including Bella, believed school officials were selectively enforcing the dress code, and some girls were told they were dressing inappropriately, while others weren’t told that.

Hence, Bella’s crusade to wear leggings to school on Tuesday.

But it was all for naught, as Principal Vince Scarpetti met with Bella and her mother and clarified that girls can wear leggings with a shirt of a reasonable length, reports the CT Post.

Read the full CT Post story here.