Speech codes

Have you ever gotten dress coded? Well I have, even though what I was wearing wasn’t even bad. Schools have always had a problem with dress code, because students want to wear what they like! First, everyone expresses themselves in many different ways. When teens express themselves through their clothes they shouldn't get punished for it. Second, a dress code should not harm anyone's religion or heritage background. Kids shouldn’t have to worry about getting dress coded for the way they look, because

important ones, is the dress code. From experience, if a dress code is in place to have students dress up properly, then students for one, look nicer. Although, they also tend to act better. Personal appearance has a mental and emotional impact on how we will act for the day, as well as how we see the world. Traditionally I see better behavior with student that dress more formal. Some people may state that it doesn’t allow people to be themselves. This is true, but dress codes are actually meant to get

time for finding and expressing yourself, and it’s extremely hard to do this already monumental task while being told the way you dress is “wrong”. Of course, dress codes can be okay if they’re reasonable. If a dress code tells students not to show up to school in swimsuits, that’s understandable. However, if a dress code tells girls to dress a certain way in order to avert the male gaze, that’s unacceptable. In today’s society, a woman’s body is constantly discriminated against and hypersexualized

identity issues.The problem with school dress code and opinions on how things should be done and classified have been around for years and years. So yes, make sure it is within the borders of decency and as long as it doesn't express anything offensive or threatening then let kids wear what they want! Therefore, students should have the ability to dress accordingly and not have to participate in wearing school uniforms. Studies have shown

colleges are consider placing speech codes and regulations on campus because of allegations concerning racist speech and harassment. There are some, such as, Cinnamon Stillwell and Charles R. Lawrence III, who are in favor of speech codes because they consider some of the actions a form of harassment. While others, such as, Harvey B. Silverglate, Greg Lukianoff, and Howard M. Wasserman opposes the codes and regulations because they insist that no matter how profane the speech, it is still protected under

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects free speech. The Constitution what written many years ago, and times have certainly changed. Should there be speech codes on college campuses? This is a widely debated topic, and there are many pros and cons to this topic. Although the First Amendment protects free speech; I believe there should be a speech code on college campuses to cut down on violence and for the safety of the students and teachers on college campuses. There

Our most basic right, the freedom of speech, is being threatened. Nat Hentoff’s “Speech Codes on Campus” clearly explains the situation unfolding on college campuses and elsewhere across the United States. A speech code is defined as a limitation on specific words that might be found offensive to anyone. This limitation can create some major problems elsewhere that can be overlooked. Some might even argue that speech codes offend the very people that it is trying to protect. Censorship is a tedious

A Comparison of Two Authors In a world where freedom of speech is protected by our governing law, where exactly do you draw the line on what is acceptable to say in public? This has become an very important topic in classrooms all over the United States as many universities and other educational institutions across the country have begun to implement speech codes in an effort to suppress language deemed inappropriate for a scholastic setting. This has become the trend as many colleges have outlawed

“Congress shall make no law... prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...”. This is what our first amendment speaks about. The freedom of speech and expression. Schools have been violating this law in the place of school dress codes. There should not be a dress code in school because it violates the first amendment, they do not support creativity and they are expensive. Dress codes violate the first amendment. Students should have the ability to express themselves as it

The Hidden Speech Codes in Colleges In the article “Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges” by Harvey A. Silverglate and Greg Lukianoff the authors talk about how speech codes are still used in universities but not called speech codes. Silverglate goes on to speak how speech is restricted by way of creating “speech zones” and policies that are “artfully written” to conceal their intentions to limit public speaking. I found myself asking why we need to defend ourselves from expressing our viewpoints