Controversy Over The Use Of Dress Codes In Schools

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Dress code in schools Schools throughout the world have dress codes or uniforms that their students have to wear every day.Even tho dress code and uniforms have been around for a while there is still controversy around the fact that kids and teens are confined to the same types of clothes every school day.

A Lot of the students who have to wear dress code or uniforms disagree with that and say that they should be able to wear whatever they want to wear.On a website http://www.debate.org/ you can sak wuestions and the heneral piblic will vote yes or no and somethimes coment their opinins for why they chose that awnser.

One question asked was Do you think that schools should enforce dress code?

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