Sexualization Of School Dress Codes

Boys will be boys, and girls need to conform to keep things under control. Under a strict dress code, school officials make female students conform to the perverted minds of teenage boys. School dress codes claim to teach students how to dress properly for their future career and create a safe environment in school, but in reality it often sexualizes young women’s body parts and underestimates young men’s maturity. Establishing strict dress code rules perpetuates rape culture and prevents young people from having freedom of expression.
Commonly, young women from the age of 10 to 17 years old get sent home from school because their clothes are too sexual and provocative,“Most girls were called out or given a detention based on their clothing
Educators and school districts claimed that their dress codes are just protectingon and ensuring ement of kid’s safety and study environment, but while unknown to negative effects on young women’s mental health from dress codes’ objectification and sexualization. Sexualization can impact on girls’ well-beings and health. According to a 2007 study conducted by the American Psychological Association the study found sexualization can lead to negative consequences such as “cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, sexuality, and attitudes” as well as “ appearance anxiety and body dissatisfactory”. It’s wrong to sexualize young women because it could affect students’ emotion. Not only is sexualizing women is unhealthy, but also it causes the presence of a they have a bad influence for on young girls. There tends to be a belief for these young girls that their developing female bodies are dangerous. Gender studiesy scholars report that gender biased dress codes generally have negative impacts on women and send messages that their body can harm peoplea person. Along with Laura Bates; a founder of Everyday Sexism Project states, “teaching our children that girls' bodies are dangerous, powerful and sexualized, and that boys are biologically programmed to objectify and harass them” (Bates,11). She concludes that how sexualizing can also underestimate boys’ maturity. In the end, dress
On the other hand, according to researchers from Sam Houston University conducted by Jimmy Creel and Angela Stallings about the dress code effect on students’ learning achievement. They showed that there’s no correlation between dress code and students’ academic achievement in school. Creel and Stallings conducted students with school appropriate clothing while taking their Texas Assessment test and they conclude, “Our studies suggested that the implementation of a standardized test dress code had no significant impact on the improvement of TAAS scores among the targeted population” (Creel and Stallings, 4). They also found that allowing students to express themselves can create “Unity and pride” (Stallings,