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Outdated Dress Code, Outdated Punishments Do you feel offended when someone bares their shoulders?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,…

Continue to Enforce a Dress Code? Many people believe that the clothes people wear are a way for them to express themselves, and that schools should not restrict the creativity these clothes display. Although this may be true, school dress codes only restrict inappropriate clothes and articles of clothing that are distracting. Dress codes allows students to “express themselves” while also being appropriately covered and distraction free. It is true that some school dress codes can be strict,…

Should Rancho Mirage High School have school uniforms? RMHS officials had asked a majority of their students one question, should RMHS have school uniforms? A majority of the students had given the answer no. The majority of those students had particularly stated about their own opinions more than the statistics on how uniforms affect the school. Now, if the officials had asked the staff on how they felt about RMHS approving school uniforms. Do you think the staff will put more opinion into…

If you were a student and you had to sit at an assigned seats, would you like it? Students should not have assigned seating. Just think about it. Picture you, sitting next to people you don’t know at a table full of people who know each other having a conversation on something you never heard of. You would feel left out right? This is why students should not have assigned seating. Especially in middle and high schools because it proves that they are responsible and can result in more advantages.…

“I remember walking into drugstores when i was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and your look is such a part of 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…

Kids shouldn’t wear uniforms in school. They shouldn’t because it throws away their individuality and the cost for new clothing including the cost of uniforms and tuition is excessive. The cost of uniforms for one parent for one year is $100-150. The cost of cloths is without uniforms is about $670. Individuality is a big reason why kids shouldn’t wear uniforms. Individuality gives kids their own creative way of seeing things and if kids aren’t individual, it give them less creativity. Boring…

To me, social construction is a compilation of societal and cultural expectations and the way these expectations, individuals, and society interact. Like patriarchy, social constructionism functions by the foundation and obedience (or disobedience) of social systems. Individuals and the system work together to form and maintain whatever society considers “normal”. Social construction may be seen in religion – depending upon how a Christian religion interprets the Bible and/or other religious…

lecturing the student about what is and is not appropriate to wear at school. As the weather warms up, more students are lectured and pulled away from class to change, the school's attempt to avoid a distraction in the learning environment. The dress code, more specifically, likes to target girls as their victims. In an article from Time.com, a high school girl recalled an incident in which she was told that the policy was created because there are male students and teachers on campus, bras…

guidelines for behavior. Ethics involves doing the right thing in each circumstance. These codes represent an accepted standard of discipline these apply to the members of the profession and the students that are preparing to become social workers. There are professional codes of ethics that are developed and put forth by a professional organization or organization. Some of these codes are as follows. The codes of ethics have features that are prescriptions and proscriptions. Prescriptions are…

In response to the article in The Advertiser (7/8/13) on sport in schools, I would like to say how disgusted I am that the new National Curriculum for schools will not include sport as a compulsory subject for all students. As being a student who loves sports and knows the influence it can have, I believe that if it is not in the National Curriculum students can become obese or overweight, can get stressed, and it doesn’t give students a chance to interact with one another. Firstly, students…