Embarrassed, Demetra listened to her father and let her arms hang by her side. Her shorts came out just below her fingertips, which meant she had passed the fingertip test. Her pants were not too short at all. Tony thought he’d made his point, but school wasn’t done with his daughter yet.
The principal soon invented another reason why Demetra was wrong. When Tony heard that reason, a switch went off in his head. This was the last straw. This reason had to do with the boys in Demetra’s class. “Hey!” thought Tony. “I’ll make sure to let them know what I think about that.”