Dress Code Persuasive Essay

Three years ago, my school district implemented a strict dress code. The new dress code banned many of the clothes that students had been wearing for years beforehand. This included sweatpants, graphic tee shirts, dyed hair, hooded sweatshirts, non-traditional colored and patterned pants, and many other types of dress that are often worn at most public high schools. This new dress code was highly controversial among students and teachers alike. My position was with the majority, who were all strongly opposed to the issue of the dress code. I opposed the CASD dress code because I believed it to be too expensive, too drastic, and oppressive toward students.

In commencement, the new dress code was far too expensive for many families in my school district. Most students opposed the dress code because they had grown up wearing the aforementioned clothing types and were required to replace most of their everyday wear with a completely new wardrobe. This was not only was time-consuming but was also a great financial burden, as my hometown, Chambersburg, has an exceptionally high poverty rate …show more content…
The reasoning behind the change to the dress code in the first place was to prevent students wearing revealing or inappropriate outfits at school. This confused many students as to how appropriate graphics on clothing or sandals could be seen as revealing or inappropriate. Students were being suspended from school just because their shirts featured words on them. I believe that this was a highly unscrupulous practice since the students that were being pulled from their classes were typically the ones who could not afford new clothes. Something about seeing intelligent students with a strong desire to learn who were unable to because their families couldn’t afford new and expensive clothing always struck a chord with