Benefits Of A New Dress Code Policy

“We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”(Kristof) Feminism is a controversial topic because of oppressing dress code, narrow education standards, and sexism against both females and males.

Free dress at schools should be about being able to wear clothes that you are comfortable in. Many students at Animo Inglewood get in trouble just for wearing a shirt that shows their shoulders. It shouldn't really matter what students wear on free dress days as long as they don't expose too much skin. For example, wearing really short shorts and a crop top would be considered inappropriate. But the point is a lot of students face these problems on free dress days. We only get free dress about twice a month but is it, considered free dress if students are persistently getting in trouble for showing the slightest bit of shoulders.

Many people still believe a dress code is the answer to most school problems, but they’re wrong. I think that schools should stop enforcing dress codes. There are so many reasons and instances that prove that dress codes are completely unnecessary. One reason being that restricting student expression is against their first amendment rights. Another being that dress codes can be sexist. Also, contrary to popular belief, dress codes don’t prevent bullying.

In today's society students are continually bombarded with rules and regulations that they must follow, one of them is an ongoing controversy which is dress codes which schools enforce. Many ask themselves is school dress codes are a good idea, but this has become a complicated matter, especially for females since the rules apply more to them, many asserting it is sexist. Some people would claim that dress codes improve learning on school campuses and help promote a “distraction free” learning environment, but in reality dress codes are not only ineffective but hinders creative thought, demonstrates mistrust against students, and perpetrates sexism.

In the past days as the weather has improved, I have noticed a plethora of girls being dresscoded, to a standard I believe is inaccurate and biased. Girls are being removed from classroom settings to no one's benefit, strict dress codes are promoting stereotypes and negative ideas, and dresscode almost never affects guys I believe our dress code should be changed due to its unfair and shaming nature.

Some dress codes can be a hot-button issue in middle-school classrooms. While some people think of dress codes as a way to try to improve student discipline, others see the dress codes as a way to stifle individuality during a time when some students are jest learning to express themselves and others. Many schools have had a little success with the dress codes, but the administrators, teachers and parents need to take a closer look at all the issues that are surrounding dress codes before they start determining whether dress codes at schools are necessary for them.

Everybody has their own style. Making people dress the same will try to eliminate creativity. They are discriminatory to women and girls. Girls should not be forced to wear skirts or dresses. Dress codes or uniforms are sexist, boring, and expensive.

Implementing dress codes should not be in educational institutions of any level. This debate over enforcing dress codes in school environments has been a controversial subject in the educational institutions for years. Administrators have struggled to find effective ways to decrease the number of disciplinary issues. The primary solution that they have implemented is the introduction of dress codes. The introduction of dress codes has been a common way to help decrease the number of disciplinary issues. The topics of bullying, gangs, violence, and freedom of expression are thrown into this conversation, causing controversy within educational institutions. The implementation of dress codes causes students to abstain from freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and most of all are discriminative towards females.

The school dress code is enforced to keep students and staff members from wearing clothes that are considered to be too revealing. The manner in which the dress code policy is being enforced is leaving violators, such as myself, with the idea that their clothes are more important than their education. Not only does this extensive list, which is entailed in the dress code policy, hinders my education, but it is also biased towards females and it should be repealed because it is unrealistic after high school. Like most of my peers, during my time in high school, I had a big red target on my back when it came to violating the dress code. As I would walk to my next class, I was constantly called out by the school’s freshman director and told to go to the office; this felt like sitting in solitude for the rest of the day.

In today's modern era, jobs are requiring employees to attire dress code in order for the company to look professional and well maintained. Also it is becoming a safety regulation on how some clothes are worn.

Some of our most powerful and lasting ideas about the world around us are learned at school. Hard work pays off, success comes from working together, and girls’ bodies are dangerous and harassment is inevitable. April of 2013, a six year old girl who attended Tussahaw Elementary School in McDonough, Georgia where administrators told her mother that her outfit "was inappropriate and a distraction to other students." Who exactly would be distracted by a kindergarteners’ skirt? According to hundreds of schools in the United States, it’s boys and male faculty. While being stopped by a teacher because my sleeveless shirt was only three fingers in width instead of four, I saw a boy walking towards us in a tank top and didn’t even gain a second glance from the same teacher. That was one of the many examples that support the fact that how dress code is sexist, shames and humiliates young girls, and promotes rape culture.

Everyone is different, we all have our own sense of style and thinking. Outfit regulations keep you from being original and different. They cost a lot, stop you from being original, and are very sexist.

On a school day in 1994, a junior high student named Evan wore a sleeveless button down shirt for picture day. As Evan got to school that day he wasn't aloud to get his picture taken because of that shirt. The shirt was against the school district's dress code. Twenty years later school dress codes have changed a ton (Yingst).

Do you ever just think, why do we have dress codes? Whether it’s for school, work, for a sport, and others. Like, what’s the point? Well, let me tell you, I’ve been there. I hate dress codes so much. School dress codes are way too strict. Like, why do we need to cover our shoulders? It’s not like a boy is going to go up to a girl and say, “You have attractive shoulders!”

Almost all school have dress codes and there are some problems with them. BELTS, we are not required to where belts in school. You may think it’s not a big problem but it is because kids sag there pants all the time because they don’t have belts. It would not be a problem if we didn’t have to see there under where and privates all the time. It’s also addicting because when you start dressing a certain way it can be hard to change. Finally smaller kids see it and think it’s cool and start doing it and it can all be avoided if we just had to where belts.