In one North Carolina school district, students may soon find an unusual new directive in their school's dress code policy: a ban on "furry" costumes.
Officials in the Iredell-Statesville School District, which serves a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, appear to be undertaking a strange response to a social media hoax. According to Queen City News, a local news station, the school district was recently inundated with emails alleging that students identifying as "furries" had been coming to schools dressed as animals and bringing litter boxes into school bathrooms. While officials determined that the reports were false, some school board members appear to believe there is some danger to the hoax. As a result, board members have proposed an amendment to the district dress code to officially bar students from wearing "furry" costumes to school, "including tails, gloves, ears, or collars."
