UPDATE:
5/2:
The principal at Divine Child High School has canceled a plan to require female students to wear “modesty ponchos” at prom if their dresses are too revealing.
Eric Haley, issued a statement Tuesday that was also sent home to students' parents.
Haley says the poncho will not be used at prom, and was only a reminder to students about the school's dress code policies.
In the statement, Haley also says he encourages students to use their own wraps or shawls in order to meet dress code requirements.
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5/1:
Officials at a Catholic high school in a Detroit suburb will require female students to wear "modesty ponchos" at prom if their dresses are deemed too revealing.
WJBK-TV reports that some students at Divine Child High School in Dearborn are calling the new prom policy a method of body shaming.
The pink ponchos are on display inside the school with a note, saying the "modesty ponchos" will be handed to girls wearing dresses that violate the school's requirements.
Theology teacher Mary Pat O'Malley came up with the idea. She says the school is trying to focus on inner beauty and the ponchos are intended as a light-hearted deterrent.
But a student says the school has gone too far. She calls the ponchos a form of shaming.
The school's prom will be held May 12.
