Why We Should Not Have Dress Code In Schools

How would you feel if your kids were going to school everyday and you found out that the teachers were more focused on how they were dressed than their grades? Kids go to schools every day that enforce dress code laws and there are so many problems going on with dress code that keep kids from making good grades and may make kids feel left out. I believe that schools should not enforce dress code because schools are more focused on it than any other problems, dress code eliminates freedom of self expression, and most kids will oppose the law of dress code.

Many schools that enforce dress code are often more focused on student dress code laws than any other current problems going on in the school. Tom Houlihan, a former superintendent, stated that “school uniforms are a distraction from focusing
Kids should be able to dress how they want to and express themselves in a way that other kids may not. According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada “allowing students to choose their clothing is an empowering message from the schools that a student is a maturing person who is entitled to the most basic self-determination.” A child should be able to choose their own clothing showing that they are mature enough to dress appropriately without a dress code being enforced. Schools also remove the option of various social causes. How is a kid supposed to support something like Breast Cancer Awareness when school dress code restricts the colors of their clothes to school colors or something as simple as black, blue, and maybe white. In other cases dress code may be taken too seriously in some schools. In the court case Richards v. Thurston, a boy got in trouble for refusing to cut his hair shorter and the court ruled that “compelled conformity to conventional standards of appearance does not seem justifiable part of the educational