Let's Play Dress Up

A Burlington county school district wanted grade-school boys to dress up like girls for Women's History Day.

Calls to the school were referred to district Superintendent Michael Livengood. Despite the letter's apparent call for boys to dress up in women's clothing in some form, he said no one had called the school to complain about the issue and believes it is being blown out of proportion.

Livengood acknowledged, however, that the initial letter could have been "worded differently" in some parts.
"The letter home could have been worded in a better way, but it wasn't," he said. "Maple Shade schools are not trying to have boys cross-dress, that's for sure."

The timing of the fashion show coincided with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's "Day of Silence," Giandomenico said, and she felt it was no coincidence. She said that she's open to "alternative lifestyles" and has male friends who dress as women, but that it's not something third- and fourth-grade students can handle, particularly her son, who has Asperger's syndrome.

Livengood? Cross-dressing? Fashion shows? That's one nutty school district.