What on earth were her parents thinking??!!
It sounds like those awful kids beauty pageants in America.
I disagree - its the sexualising of young girls with adult style clothes and make up that I think is the issue - I have no problem with young girls wearing an Irish dancing costume that covers all their bits and wearing the equilavent of stage make-up with their hair made curly with ribbons - but a child wearing heels, midriff exposed, bouffant hair and adult style make up is just not on.The Irish Dancing Competitions are just as bad!
perhaps all students be obliged to wear the school uniform on the day?
Forcing all children to wear uniforms because of the poor judgment of a minority of parents is not the answer.
I disagree - its the sexualising of young girls with adult style clothes and make up that I think is the issue - I have no problem with young girls wearing an Irish dancing costume that covers all their bits and wearing the equilavent of stage make-up with their hair made curly with ribbons - but a child wearing heels, midriff exposed, bouffant hair and adult style make up is just not on.
Many schools already do this, it prevents any embarrassment for people who dont have the money to 'keep up with the Jones'. There is nothing stopping the child from changing into a fancy outfit to go extort money off the relations in after the church piece.
A family friend is a teacher in a school South of the Liffey - she told us that last year for the communion a little girl walked up to the priest to receive communion and as she put it into her mouth, her dress lit up. Her dad had a remote control - priest didn't know what had happened and it took a while to register.
I disagree. The same subtle sexualisation exists in the Irish Dancing industry (sun-bed sessions, fake tans, wigs, make-up, etc., etc.)
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