The Mississippi Copiah County School District refused to print her picture or her name after she insisted on being photographed in a tuxedo. "I guess in the back of my mind I knew that was going to happen, Sturgis said,but I did have a little hope. I cried. I put my head down and put my hand over my face."
Photo Phinish
Ms. Sturgis was determined
To dress just like a man
In the picture for her year book
And decided that she can.
But though she was insistent
And felt the fight fair game,
Her school left out her photo
And refused to print her name.
The ACLU insists, now,
She be treated like a guy;
But the schools hard-nose decision
Was enough to make her cry.
© 2010 Jim Gordon
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