Dress

the years the debate over school dress has been a hot topic, while dress codes are nothing new, they have been a growing issue that past few decades. According to Laura Birkett on the Toronto Star, “For as long as there have been teenagers, there have been adults aghast at their habits... often expressed by their wardrobe” (“Students Protest Dress Codes” IN7). Dress codes pose to have no actual effect on students in today's world. Birkett also explained that with dress code or without it kids will do

to studies there is no hard evidence that dress code are helping students at school. Some parents can’t afford the dress codes, students aren’t able to express themselves if they like to be creative, and there's actually no evidence that strict dress codes help students with behavioral problems. Schools that have dress codes do have some benefits, but not that many students like the dress codes. Some parents can’t afford some of the schools specific dress codes. That resulted in kids not going to

throughout many high schools. What is it you say? The answer is dress codes. “A set of rules specifying the garb or type of  clothing to be worn by a group or by people under specific circumstances” (Dictionary.com). School are failing to address equally among women, but shame and sexualize their bodies. Social media post and news broadcast are storming the nation as more and more situations with girls being called out for breaking the dress code. This is something not just another problem the country

A set of rules for clothing or an excuse to exercise sexism? Dress codes is a standard of clothing for school, office, club, or restaurant. Schools have dress codes to promote professionalism and a distraction-free learning environment. More standards of dressings are set in place for girls than males. This causes an unequal amount of bias towards women and sexism to occur in the dress code. Schools dress codes are sexist because they promote body shaming, encourage victim blaming, and value male

Comp 2 Mr. Armstrong 13 February 2017 The History of Dress Codes in the School Systems Dress codes should be required in the school systems around the world for students. School systems have caused and dealt with these issues for numerous years. The First Amendment of the United States gives U.S citizens the free will to talk among their different opinions. The Freedom of Speech Act allows the support from students involving their school dress code rule, also including their education and impacting

Complaint I: I think we shouldn’t have a dress code at school. I honestly feel that if I’m paying for my clothes, my own self I should be able to wear them. I feel like the majority of the clothes I wear aren’t inappropiate or if they are I don’t try to be , I simply wear them to express myself. I also feel that if they keep the dress code they need to be fair with it and not let some people wear it and some people not. Complaint II: I think school should start 9 o’clock and not 7:45 in the

The school dress code limits the way girls/boys dress,so they don't "distract the learning environment", and most rules are targeted towards young women. For example, “All shirts/blouses must have sleeves”, “Halter tops/tank tops/strapless tops/spaghetti straps/off shoulder garments are unacceptable”, etc. I also recognized that specific sets of genders are rarely applied to these set of rules. I do recognize that there are certain rules that apply to young men, and some rules are reasonable like

Dress for Success in School How many public schools today have school uniform policy? According to Hamilton, there are 23% of public elementary schools that have the school uniform policy (11). There are many public schools today making uniforms a rule to help the learning environment. During the past 20 years, the ranks of uniformed public school students in the US have swelled to 12.5 million more than 20% of the total (“Too School” 2). Many students will stop worry about everything else that

Dress code School's rule some clothes as too distracting or inappropriate because they believe some clothing items are too short or goes too low for example. There are only dress codes because they want to "promote a safe, disciplined school environment, prevent interference with schoolwork and discipline, and to encourage uniformity of student dress "according to https:education.findlaw.com. What they don't realize is we don't need rules for that. Dress code at school is a violation of not only

Dress codes are not helping schools like they are meant to do; they are actually harming students in the school. Dress codes shame students and make them insecure about their bodies. They also disrupt precious class time that is vital to students. Buying clothes to fit the school dress code is costlier than some families can afford. Not only are dress codes stifling, but they are also unfair toward specific body types and different genders. Dress codes also decrease a student’s ability to be different