Why Do Students Dress Code

There are many schools in the U.S. that require students to dress a certain way or follow a set of rules in order to set boundaries for students and what they wear, this is better known as a school dress code, which is one thing many students feel a strong hate for. This year at my school every Tuesday and Thursday students are required to dress business professional, which I think is a bit extreme and stupid for many reasons. For the girls dress code the rules include wearing either a skirt or slacks, and a modern blouse; As for the boys, they're asked to either wear slacks or jeans with a button up shirt. With these new rules set in the dress code many students were very upset, including myself. The reason for these changes? Students needed …show more content…
One of the biggest concerns I have about the dress code is that most of the students who are being dress coded, even on regular dress days happen to be girls. This is upsetting because many of the young girls being dress coded look perfectly fine, but are being punished because their outfit is viewed as a clothing item that could be “provocative”. I think what our school staff members should’ve done was teach students how to dress, instead of just saying “make sure to dress up professionally” because most students at my school don’t even know how to properly tie their tie, how long their skirts needed to be, or even what slacks were. Getting mad at students for how their dressing when the dress code wasn’t even fully explained is just mediocre. If teachers and staff members really cared for the dress code because of the “impression” it would make, they would’ve made more of an effort into finding a smart approach to address how they wanted their school and students to be presented. In conclusion, I don’t agree with school dress codes because many of them take away freedom of expression from students, demonstrate gender inequality, and overall, students are still uneducated on how to dress for the real