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HENRY COUNTY, Georgia -- A single mother in Georgia was told she couldn't attend her daughter's father-daughter dance. Amy Peterson and her 6-year-old daughter, Gracie, had been looking forward to the dance for months, according to WSB-TV.
Peterson said she let the school know she would be attending the dance with her daughter, and even got dressed for the dance by wearing a man's dress shirt, bow tie and painting a beard on her face.
"She was okay with it," Peterson said. "She was excited that her friends were going to get to see this."
But an hour before the dance, Peterson said the school principal contacted her and told her not to attend.
"She said, 'No. I forbid you to come and if you show up we will turn you away,'" Peterson told WSB.
Peterson said she had to break the news to her daughter that they couldn't go.
"To me, I've identified myself as her father and her mother because that's what I've done for six years," Peterson told WSB.
The school released a statement explaining the decision:
"If you don't want things like this happening, put parent-child dance," Peterson said. "Don't put a stipulation on it's a mom or a dad."