Sexual Orientation In Schools Essay

The impacts that religion and sexual orientation have on high school students

Since childhood we develop our identities and our choices are influenced by our sexual orientation, religion and surrounding environment ( how the people around us like friends and parents dress). People of all ages have trouble to achieve one’s own personality but teenagers are the group with the highest rate of people with low-self esteem. Why do so many teens have problems with themselves? The answer is because many haven’t learned to accept their sexual orientation or are forced to wear some clothes for religions such as the Islamism.

Recently, at Northwood High School junior Caleb and father had to force the principal to apologize for being required to write a letter from their synagogue’s rabbi asking permission to wear a kippah ( a Jewish hat used by men to pray). The boy came to school one day with the hat and when one administrator asked him to remove it, Caleb refused saying that he was wearing it for religious purposes. The principal asked for a letter for a
In other words, they wear clothes from the opposite gender. Most schools forbid Spaghetti straps, strapless shirts, sleeveless shirts for girls and sagging pants, muscle shirts for boys. In the last few years, some teenagers have been dressing to expose or hide their sexual orientation. There have been different reactions to this situation. In Houston, Texas a senior was sent home for wearing a wig that disrespected the school’s dress code rule that “no boy’s hair may not be longer than the bottom of a regular shirt collar.” However, some schools are more tolerant about cross-dressing. In Los Angeles, a gay male senior was crowned prom queen. Dress conventions regularly mirror a generational divide, with teens growing up in a culture that is getting used to double-meaning and difference than that of adults who set up the