I developed at a young age. By 3rd grade, I needed a training bra. By 5th grade, I had my first period. I was interested in boys earlier than my friends.

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The impact of developing breasts at a young age.
On night two of the new school year, my daughters' high school principal sent out the following email: "kids" were not to show "the three Bs: No bellies. No buns. No breasts. Lucky me. The educational authorities were on the clothing case. Our collective parenting failure to enforce proper dress fobbed off on the public school system. And yet, something was missing.
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After being pulled from her fifth-period class at Braden River High School, the year-old from Bradenton, Florida, found herself in the dean's office, and was told that nipples and breasts were "distracting" other students and "a boy was laughing at her," thus she was violating school dress code policy, according to the teen and statements from school officials. Martinez said that school officials originally told her that her third-period teacher flagged the dress code issue, but later said a student came to the office to report her. Martinez's mother, Kari Knop, took a picture of the outfit that caused school officials to ask her daughter to cover her nipples. Most days I don't wear one. It depends on my mood. I'm not wearing one right now, and why should it matter? BuzzFeed News reached out to school district officials Sunday asking why Martinez had been blocked from following the school's account, but did not immediately receive a response.
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