School Uniforms Essay

Students have set rules and expectations to follow. One rule would be dress code. At Beaufort High School a 17 year old Student Body President was stopped by a teacher in the hallway and was told, “Your skirt is too short. You need to go to in-school suspension and then go home”. After she was told to go to in-school suspension, she was told that she could go home and change. She was embarrassed and humiliated. The dress code states pants have to be 3 inches above the knee. The teacher could of…

experiences 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…

“You’re asking for it” Junior year picture day was coming up, and of course I wanted to get a great picture. I picked out my favorite plain, black strapless shirt. As soon as I get to school, I am called into the principal 's office. I had been dresscoded. The middle-aged man told me that I “was distracting to my fellow male classmates.” Despite the fact that my hair falls and covers way lower than my shoulders, my body was still too inappropriate, even though every human has shoulders of their…

judgement, including by adults they trust. Nor does it help them understand the culture’s role in wardrobe choices” - Peggy Orenstein. This is relevant because most females in schools are subjected to unfair dress codes, making them more self conscience about their appearance and not allowing them to freely express themselves. In schools dress codes are biased toward teenage girls. More females are sent out of class in a month than the number of boys in a year. Boys are not held to the same…

Ever since Gale Ranch opened, there has been a school dress code. Gale Ranch students melted into a pool of anger and are now breaking it. Some students don’t like dress code because they think it doesn’t affect their learning and it doesn’t allow them to express themselves. Students seem to ignore the fact that the dress code is there to make the environment easier to learn in, so that students would not be distracted by what other people are wearing. Staff at Gale Ranch makes sure students…

self-expression” - Olivia Wilde. Different hair colors shouldn't be restricted from middle school students. Dying your hair only shows who you are and who you have chosen to be. Students with low self esteem are recommended to dye their hair for a boost in self appreciation,and studies show that students with a high self esteem perform better in their school work. School isn’t a place for only math and science, school is an environment for expressing yourself, making friends, and working in…

The Misogynist Ruling Imagine it is 80 degrees and sunny outside, the inside of the school is humid and hot. The school does not turn on the air conditioning till they know it will stay warm outside, you do not want to feel too hot, and you want to be comfortable so you are wearing a tank top and shorts. The schools dress code does not permit anything that goes above the knee or anything that shows your shoulders as that is considered provocative for being a young girl. One of your teachers…

girls and really none are for boys. Girls shouldn’t be able to wear crop tops to school. They also shouldn’t wear anything that shows their stomach at all. The girls should be allowed to wear leggings without a long enough shirt. Kids shouldn’t be dress coded for things that aren’t dress codes. No!!In elementary school, we had no dress codes, we got to choose what we got to wear. If you get dressed coded in middle school you have to go up front and call the office and suffer the…

It covers the school systems dress codes. The purpose of this article, is to show how bad dress codes are. Dress codes are degrading, stands for the wrong purpose, and it makes the parents angry. The article has my interest, because a dress code effected my four years of high school. It made me mad, that we were told, that our clothes were "distracting" the boys. It also interested me, because I can see how it effects other schools. I personally think, this article shows how schools can…

In TIME’s published ‘How School Dress Codes Shame Girls and Perpetuate Rape Culture’, Laura Bates explains that sexist school dress-codes,enforced to prevent girls from distracting their male classmates by dressing “provocatively”, tend to only regulate females’ attire, while administrators constantly turn a blind eye to males who harass girls. Bates believes school districts’ sexist dress-codes groom students to accept rape as inevitable because it teaches students that rape victims bring…