School Dress Codes Should Be More Lenient
Why do schools implement policies that hurt the ones it affects? School dress codes have been under fire in recent history for good reasons. Female students being “judged” for wearing leggings under their dresses, no matter how cold it is outside. Young boys being framed for the dress codes being as strict as they are. Many parents and students have taken action against these policies by creating petitions that stand up for the rights of students. Some teachers even think that the rules should be more relaxed. The school boards have seen the petitions but will not consider the complaints as substantial evidence that the dress codes do not work. They refuse to see that dress codes actually single out …show more content…
Himself and a woman in the bed together. It is teaching kids that boys are programmed to objectify and harass girls. As teenagers the policy is preparing women to not dress too sexually because it will “turn on” the guys to the point of not being able to handle themselves; which will lead to sexual harassment. This is not the case in many harassment cases. The reason for sexual harassment is poor decisions and morals of the perpetrators. “The problem is often compounded by a lack of any attempt to discipline boys for harassing behavior, which drives home the message that it is the victim’s responsibility to prevent.” (Schrobsdorff 2015) Often times defense lawyers make it out that the reason the boy came onto the girl was because of what she wore at the time. Sadly, the courts get away with doing this and so that allows the schools to do the same reasoning. Truly, it is an offense to make boys, or anybody so easily distracted and “pulled” into that situation by a certain
Why do schools implement policies that hurt the ones it affects? School dress codes have been under fire in recent history for good reasons. Female students being “judged” for wearing leggings under their dresses, no matter how cold it is outside. Young boys being framed for the dress codes being as strict as they are. Many parents and students have taken action against these policies by creating petitions that stand up for the rights of students. Some teachers even think that the rules should be more relaxed. The school boards have seen the petitions but will not consider the complaints as substantial evidence that the dress codes do not work. They refuse to see that dress codes actually single out …show more content…
Himself and a woman in the bed together. It is teaching kids that boys are programmed to objectify and harass girls. As teenagers the policy is preparing women to not dress too sexually because it will “turn on” the guys to the point of not being able to handle themselves; which will lead to sexual harassment. This is not the case in many harassment cases. The reason for sexual harassment is poor decisions and morals of the perpetrators. “The problem is often compounded by a lack of any attempt to discipline boys for harassing behavior, which drives home the message that it is the victim’s responsibility to prevent.” (Schrobsdorff 2015) Often times defense lawyers make it out that the reason the boy came onto the girl was because of what she wore at the time. Sadly, the courts get away with doing this and so that allows the schools to do the same reasoning. Truly, it is an offense to make boys, or anybody so easily distracted and “pulled” into that situation by a certain