Should Dress Codes Be Allowed In School?

Imagine you were going over an important assignment in class one day to then be taken out of class for seemingly no reason. Now imagine if that reason was simply for exposed knees and exposed collarbones on the dress you were wearing. This happens to girls everywhere, their education put second to their bodies. And their comfort and self expression taken from them in an environment they have to attend. This blatant sexism happens to young girls everywhere, they are treated like sexual objects not students. In the first place degrading young girls and treating them as objects in a school environment is sexism. When this happens it teaches young girls that their bodies are the only thing that people notice and teaches them it’s their fault and …show more content…
Many school administrators say the dress codes are to prepare students for the real world. And some agree boys should be taught not to stare, “There's no reason that schools can't teach both respecting oneself through proper dress and respecting others by not leering at them.”(Three) The schools don't want their students displaying inappropriate dress, they want to keep things modest and respectful. Many dress codes do in fact target men as well, saying the pants must stay at the waist and they should not were vulgar t-shirts. They inforce tank top rules on boys as well, and some places ban the use of gang colors and symbols. Dress codes are not the same for every school, some schools are very strict and conservative while others just ask you to not come to school in a …show more content…
A dress code can prepare students for future jobs and the dress code enforced there. Schools should teach boys not to stare, as well as teach girls modesty then a dress code would not need to be enforced. There are rules that target boys directly but their rules are more about inappropriate logos of tshirts, for girls on the other hand their rules target any piece of clothing on her, the rule can range form ‘it looks inappropriate” to exact measurements; also there are many more rules that target girls. Some schools are not strict about dress codes some simply say ‘no excessive skin’, but it affects girls everywhere that we’re being degraded that way. “To me, it’s not about being able to wear certain kinds of clothing,... It’s more about the message behind it…” (George) We don't want them to walk around school in bikinis we want them to wear the clothes that we don't have to be afraid we're going to be