When Emily Stewart packed her daughter, Harmony, off to school recently, the youngster was wearing the sun dress and jeans her mum had carefully chosen for her.

When she came back, she was wearing something completely different.

Harmony, 5, hadn't spilt paint down herself, nor had she had a nasty fall in the playground.

Instead, the school nurse had made her change, the reason being because she thought Harmony needed to "cover up."

Emily, from Minnesota, was flabbergasted and, while she didn't want to criticise the school too much, she did want to make a point about the message we send girls.

She wrote on Facebook :  "Now, I knew the weather would be nice today. I sent her to school with a light sweater over her dress and jeans underneath of it.

"It's a new dress that her grandma got her and she really wanted to wear it."

Emily continued: "As a mother, how am I supposed to teach my daughter to love and celebrate her body when she has people telling her she 'needs privacy.'"

"Why was her dress looked at as an inappropriate outfit to begin with?"

Perhaps the most distressing part of Emily's account is the effect it all had on Harmony.

"I asked her when I picked her up 'why are you wearing a T-shirt?'
She said, 'I was told I had to put something on because I need privacy.'
I then asked 'how did that make you feel when they told you that?'"

"She started bawling.

"She was excited to wear that dress to school and show her friends and play in it on the play ground."

During a further conversation with Harmony's teacher, the mum was told her daughter's outfit was hanging a little low and she thought it best if she changed.

Happily, speaking out did pay off for Emily.

She later revealed in an update that the school updated their dress code. She wrote: "I'm excited to see all the changes the school board will be and is currently making to the school dress policy."

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