Code

Outdated Dress Code, Outdated Punishments Do you feel offended when someone bares their shoulders? How about when someone wears pajama bottoms or slippers? What if a boy has long hair, earrings, and a dress? These are just a few issues with dress code in schools. Schools are not allowing students to express themselves freely. This is an issue we must change. School dress codes are meant to keep students from being distracted, to help them learn better. While this may help little situations,…

extreme with the enforcement of dress codes that objectify the source of temptation, any female student. Since school integration in the early 20th century, school officials have attempted to facilitate the education of the students with the rules and sanctions they put in place. Many of these rules followed outdated, misogynistic principals and serve to preserve the sanctity of the male education at the cost of an “immodest” female. To require a “school-wide” dress code would imply equality in…

While creating my own code of ethics for an out of school care facility I currently work at I was impressed to see what other programs and associations were doing in their own codes. Some codes I looked at were the Ethics of child and youth care professionals, The early childhood educators of BC, and The child and youth care association of BC code of ethics. These gave me ideas to use in my own code as well as ideas of what I did not want to see in my code which made deciding what was best for…

Over the course of several years, the controversy of allowing dress codes in public schools has been the topic in several school districts. The school districts believe that a dress code will help students to focus more on their education, and the dress code will decrease the amount of inappropriate attire. Thus, the school desires to enforce a strict dress code to all the students in order to further the students’ knowledge and well-being. However, numerous people disagree with the schools…

of class for wearing your favorite sweater, but it was “too revealing”?The first school law to require a dress code was established in 1969 by the U.S. Supreme Court, known as the Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent School District case. Dress codes and uniforms have been the center of controversy between student and teachers from the start. Lately students have been saying that dress codes or uniforms repress their ability to express themselves in a school environment. To truly understand how…

The law code of Hammurabi contains laws that are in their own, very specific, each pertaining to what almost seems like a different arrangement of answers to questions asked in the court. With how many laws there are, and how detailed each one is, it might be safe to assume that perhaps the people tried to slip their way around the code. Plainly put, it could be almost humorous to imagine the impatience of priests as they add yet another law to the stone, after dealing with a defendant who had…

In the United States, over half of the schools (private and public) have some kind of dress code set in place. Many people think that dress code is unnecessary and many are pro-dress code. I have found that the standard dress code has (for the most part) been interpreted negatively. Dress codes are set in place to prevent distractions from one student to another and to prevent students from wearing inappropriate clothing that puts off bad images about themselves. Although most students…

School dress codes are a big issue in the United States and are a great example of inequality towards female students. Some schools such as catholic schools have a specific attire students are forced to wear. Students can not wear tight clothes and must wear clothes with specific colors. Catholic schools are just one example. In other schools, girls are not allowed to wear shorts that are not fingertip length. Fingertip length shorts are hard enough for most girls to find let alone girls with…

Dress Code is one of the biggest issues that public schools face. There are two opposing sides for the issue. One side sees that having a Dress Code for the school is very helpful for the students, not only academically but to help keep the students equal. The other side of the issue sees Dress Code as a way for student not being able to show free speech. Female students feel they are being categorized as a distraction because of what they wear. It should be noted that Dress Codes and School…

States have adopted a dress code for their students. Pro-Con.org states that as of 2008, 22 states in the U.S. had authorized school districts to institute dress codes and or uniform policies. Occupytheory.org gives a number of reasons why schools should not have a dress code, but there is always those against not having a dress code. Certain schools do have standards of what the students may wear. There is numerous parents and staff members against having a dress code. Critics do argue for…