The Importance Of The Dress Code In Schools

As a white male high school junior I completely oppose the stringent dress code that was put into effort. The fact that students’ freedom to express themselves have been taken away is very unconstitutional, especially in a country that has always promoted free speech and one’s freedom to express themselves. Neither a school administrator nor anyone else should have the right to tell a student what to wear or to look. It should not be constitutional to tell a boy to cut his hair as it does in the Perryville School District dress code, as the length of a boys’ hair should not affect his right to learn. For example, in the case of Chesley Karr, who fought for his right to wear his hair long to school, I found it extremely unjust that he was robbed of a public school education simply because his hair was long. The ruling by the courts for Karr to cut his hair and the Supreme Court refusing to hear his appeal was not fair, as the school should not have the right to allow girls to wear their hair long and not boys. This was a discriminatory rule, especially when some teachers used the explanation that boys did not know how to care for long hair as girls do and that boys with long hair all stunk. Also the rule stating that boys must shave all facial hair is unreasonable. This rule only suppresses a boy’s right to express themselves through the way they look. …show more content…
While it is important for students to have guidelines for inappropriate things that should not be worn to school, I found the dress code to be very extreme to the point that it suppressed a students’ individualism. When you take away a student’s individualism then you take away their creativity, which is important for a student to be