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    Dress codes standards send home students every day, all over the country, for being too revealing. Most are girls, and on occasions, boys that struggle with the standards, therefore they should be lowered. It’s taking away from your class time, limits self-expression, and the rules can sometimes not be correctly administered are all problems caused by dress codes standards. The dress code can take away from class time because everyone is more concerned with how we are dressed, rather than…

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    Dress Free Some school districts decided to enforce dress codes that limits students on what they want to wear. Why schools put in a school dress code? The dress code violates freedom of expression, promotes sexism and poses little to no effect on safety. Is this the school’s way of controlling the students? The students reacted to the dress code. School dress code violates the students freedom of expression. School officials quickly enacted a no armband policy when the students protested…

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    In The Sexism of School Dress Codes, Li Zhou organizes her article by informing the audience about the negative effects school dress codes may have in females, transgenders, and nonconforming students. Li Zhou strongly believes school 's dress code policies need to be updated since the policies that currently exist are bias and enforced in a way that humiliates the student. The current policies create an expectation that women are responsible for unwanted things that occur to them, when it may…

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    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…

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    One thing in the Sherwood school district that concerns me is the dress code. This problem has upset many kids for over 50+ years, and it is time to fix it. There are many different reasons why so many people do not like the dress code, but i'm only going to focus on a few. One of the reasons why the dress code in my opinion is bad is because it is totally focused on the female gender. What I mean by this is that girls are not allowed to wear any tank top that doesn't have a three finger width.…

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    agree with the dress code. The dress code prevents PDAs, physical conflict, and promotes a more peaceful environment at school. The dress code is the vary thing that keeps the students out of trouble. Let’s start off with a PDA. First of all, a PDA is an abbreviation that stands for Public Display of Affection. PDAs occur when a student likes a another student and demonstrates it in public. Certain clothing gives students an urge to do a PDA. Luckily for our students, dress code prevents this…

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    why a school’s dress code is the way it is. It exhibits both racist and sexual themes. Therefore what example does that show off on male students? That it's OK to blame your fellow female classmate for your grade because she was distracting you in the class; 180 days out of the school year. some adults fail to realize that the dress code not only condemns a sex or race but promotes…

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    Dress codes are nothing new to our society. Many times clothing guidelines are set up in the workplace, and more commonly in today’s schools. Dress codes are often implemented into school systems to “prepare kids for the real world” but some school systems believe that certain articles’ of girls attire should be prohibited because they “distract” boys. Are these strict guidelines fair and appropriate for both young men and women? Most dress codes restrict wearing skirts and dresses that are…

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    that I had throughout middle school and high school. The article is titled, “The Sexism of School Dress Codes”. A young girl named Maggie Sunseri noticed that the dress codes in her school were geared more directly to girls than it was to boys. At first, Maggie rightfully saw this concept to be unfair. The rationale that the administrators gave behind this idea, however, was even more upsetting to Maggie. Those who were in charge at her school told her that the dress code was enforced so…

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    School Dress Codes Schools should not have dress codes. Dress codes constrict the right of the students to be who they really are. More than half of K-12 schools in the United States have a form of dress code, whether it’s nice attire or a formal uniform. The fact that more than half of schools have some type of dress code, explains why many students feel that their individuality is at risk. Also the Supreme Court feels that students should not have dress codes that restrict their personalities.…

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