When you send a girl home because her shorts are too short or her clothing is immodest you are telling her that covering up her body is more important than her education" (anonymous). School dress codes should not be as strict as what they are now.…
I am rarely ever the one to post, especially about my issues, but I am speaking for many. While the discussion and arguments about school dress code are going on so isn’t downgrading, stereotyping, and bullying. Many comments have been made by people who are stereotyping others for instance cheerleaders. We are being stereotyped as preppy, snobby, slutty, “the populars”, and the list goes on. We are being used in examples like “The people who wear intentional holey jeans and revealing clothing are “the populars” and cheerleaders.” And “The cheerleaders wear skirts hiked up their butts and push their boobs up to the sky, but I got in trouble for wearing the clothes I did, this is favoritism.” This being all untrue is stereotyping, downgrading…
How would you feel if you weren’t allowed to express the way you felt at all? Better yet, how would you feel if your education was being disturbed because of your clothes? Many girls all over the United States are taken out of their class to change their clothes because they are “too revealing.” This is something that girls all over the country have to deal with this, but girls at our school also have to deal with it. The dress code at Lincolnview is unfair because the rules are ridiculous, it is unfair/sexist, and students cannot express themselves.…
The rule that I would most want changed at our middle school would be the dress code. We should be able to have our shirts untucked, be able to wear whatever we want, and our school performance should not be based on what we wear.…
Dress code sexism and sexism in general has been a problem for centuries. In the past, dressing double standards didn’t exist because people didn’t question the standards, thus resulting in the embedded, controversial problem that there is today. Now people and especially, middle school and high school girls are recognizing the problem that is dress code sexism. Some solutions to helping dress code double standards is definitely not literally fighting back, but fighting back by being vocal. For example, people can protest, put posters around the school, contacting the local paper, using social media and hashtags to spread awareness of the problem, because like previously said, the majority don’t consider dress codes to be problematic. The best…
Strict Dress Codes in our public school systems are rules that are being used to bring down the moral of fellow students and can be used to suppress students with opposing beliefs to a majority all while squashing a student's freedom of expression, which is why something has to change.…
To deliver my judgement on how students should dress, I spent my time studying an article that was written by Kneia Dacosta and was from the Journal of Negro Education. The article was called "Dress Codes Blues: an Exploration of Urban Students' Reactions to a Public High School Uniform Policy." and the authors of the article performed an interview study on 22 African American magnet high school students who attended a school with a uniform policy and focused on asking student what they thought about their uniform policy and how they reacted to it. The results were shocking. 75% of the students were opposed to the policy. Out of the 75% who opposed the policy, 56% if the students opposed the policy because it restricted their freedom, 25% said they opposed it because of the price of the uniform, and 19% opposed the uniform because they thought it was pointless. The uniforms were pointless to them because as soon as school was over violence would incite and even with…
When kids are dress coded they are pulled out of class to go sit in the office and either change or go to ISS. They miss an entire day of an lesson and fall behind in school just because they do not have on the proper attire. This also make it harder on the teachers because it is their job to make sure that the students aren't behind in their class. In an article named The High Cost of School Uniforms (written by Matt Forster, and Denise B. Geier) says , " Teachers have complained that schools' policies are distractions from teaching and learning, and parents' rights groups object strenuously to being told how to dress their children. ". Pulling kids out of classes to antagonize them about their outfit choice is not fair to the teachers who take pride in teaching our younger youth, also its not fair to parents who pay taxes to send their kids to school to get an education they do not send them to be harassed about their…
Public schools across the United States have been dealing with the issue of dress codes. As of 2008, twenty-two U.S. states specifically authorized schools to institute dress codes or uniform policies (8). School boards may generally create and enforce dress code, but they must do so without violating students’ constitutional law (9). Schools are finding difficulty in enforcing their dress code among students. Parents feel as if the schools dress codes are condoning their students for expressing themselves and say that it is unconstitutional and wrong. Parents, students, and administrators all have the idea of uniforms in the back of their mind but, they will have to give up things to have them. Though a dress code for high schools students is appropriate, uniforms would be a better option.…
Dress codes. Dress codes are something that everyone has to deal with for almost their whole lives, but schools are where dress codes seem to be the most prominent. It seems that every couple of weeks a school has made the news because of their strict dress code or their punishments for breaking the dress code. As a teenage girl, the dress code is something that I have a love-hate relationship with. It can either limit what I can wear or make me thankful for giving me guidelines when I don’t know if something is appropriate enough to wear to school.…
Dress codes are common across the nation in both large and small schools. However, they are often disputed by students for being suppressive and discriminatory. Applying dress codes to schools has been proven to deter violence. But if schools go beyond preventing violence, they can start something highly controversial. Reforming or eliminating dress codes would create a healthy and educational environment for…
Did you know that most of the in-school suspensions given at school are from dress code violations? School dress code has been around for years now. Centrals school dress code consists of khaki, navy, or black uniform style pants, also a collared polo type shirt. Anything other than this is a violation like hoodies, leggings and much more. School dress code should be changed because the students have no creativity,the expenses are high and behavior problems.…
Ever since school was created it had always been important to dress nicely and appropriately for and better learning environment. Most schools require uniforms to help this issue. But schools that don’t have uniforms usually have dress codes instead. Schools usually bans tank tops or shorts because they are seen as inappropriate. But there are dress codes in many school that can be seen as sexist and shames mostly girls for it.…
A student in the United States can never be sure if they will be dress-coded on any day. Enforcing dress codes shows students that how they dress is more important than their education. Students are too often pulled from classrooms and sent to the office to wait for new clothes to be brought from home, or for other teachers to decide…
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,…