Dear Mr. Burns and Mrs. Maro,
Many students at Washington Middle School agree that the shorts rule shouldn't exist. For various reasons the shorts dress code is unfair and harmful to the students learning. The heat is unbearable let alone while wearing pants. Shorts that meet dress code requirements aren't easy to find for female students and Why does Washington have a shorts rule when other air conditioned schools in the DCSD don't have one? In this letter I hope you realize how unfair and harmful the shorts dress code really is.
First off its too hot to be wearing long shorts and pants, the first week alone the weather reached up to 88 degrees! Since you can't provide air conditioning the least you could do is allow us to wear shorts. As the temperature rises the harder it is to learn and stay focused if we could wear shorter shorts, that would cool us down and allow us to stay focused easier. Being over heated that long can be dangerous to students with health conditions and even to an average student. In hot weather and high humidity our bodies natural cooling system may start to fail leading to illness such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion and even heat stroke! …show more content…
If you do, after endless searching it is hard to find a decent style and the right size. The only shorts that meet the dress code requirements are basketball shorts and those are hard to find in girl\women styles. That means that the only option is pants which is extremely hot in 80 degree weather. However, you might feel that the shorts rule keeps students clothes modest which in ways it does, but it makes more sense to punish students who aren't wearing modest attire than punish the whole school with the shorts dress
Many students at Washington Middle School agree that the shorts rule shouldn't exist. For various reasons the shorts dress code is unfair and harmful to the students learning. The heat is unbearable let alone while wearing pants. Shorts that meet dress code requirements aren't easy to find for female students and Why does Washington have a shorts rule when other air conditioned schools in the DCSD don't have one? In this letter I hope you realize how unfair and harmful the shorts dress code really is.
First off its too hot to be wearing long shorts and pants, the first week alone the weather reached up to 88 degrees! Since you can't provide air conditioning the least you could do is allow us to wear shorts. As the temperature rises the harder it is to learn and stay focused if we could wear shorter shorts, that would cool us down and allow us to stay focused easier. Being over heated that long can be dangerous to students with health conditions and even to an average student. In hot weather and high humidity our bodies natural cooling system may start to fail leading to illness such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion and even heat stroke! …show more content…
If you do, after endless searching it is hard to find a decent style and the right size. The only shorts that meet the dress code requirements are basketball shorts and those are hard to find in girl\women styles. That means that the only option is pants which is extremely hot in 80 degree weather. However, you might feel that the shorts rule keeps students clothes modest which in ways it does, but it makes more sense to punish students who aren't wearing modest attire than punish the whole school with the shorts dress