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Going through my closet every day looking for something to wear, I can only find skirts and dresses. As a little girl, my mother would always dress me in a navy-blue uniform dress or skirt with tights and boots. I would tell my classmates I would dress this way because I was forced by my mother but, I only said that to cover up the real reason. I was afraid of being made fun of and I felt as though everyone made assumptions about me because I dressed differently, instead of getting to know my…

“I forgot to my joke” “My supplies at my table” “Four minutes already! I’m not even on my main idea yet!” “I did so badly”. Many bad thoughts flew b as I went through my speech; I thought that I was going to be the person to “wow the crowd”; “people remember the person who goes first and the person who goes last the most” (Danielle Woody). That did not work out. I did a “How-to-Speech” on ‘how to reuse clothes’. I would give myself below an F-.My goal was to start the speech a week before I…

Don’t you hate how you can’t express your style the way you want? Not being able to wear those cute sandals you bought from ‘Forever 21’ and that really nice spaghetti strap tank top you’ve been dying to wear, all because schools won’t let you. It’s time to be you and express your unique sense of style to everyone around you. People shy away from expressing the way they want to dress since we have so many rules in school about the dress code policies. Approximately 3,328,750 people in just the…

The Interview Interviewing my ninety year old father, Joseph Denis, had me come to the realization that our childhood and teenage years had many similarities, yet had many more differences. Born in 1926 , Joseph was raised in a different era than myself, as I was born in 1961. Joe had six brothers and two sisters, while I had three brothers and three sisters. Although the technology had advanced and the basic lifestyles had changed over the years, family time was important to each of our…

Standing Here Ironing in My New Dress As a single parent children have different meaning for standing when it comes to being discipline by their parents. To us standing is shrieking up to be heard for the children they shriek down to heard. What I’m trying to say is if we do not take control in our children’s life style how are we to know when they or shrieking up or down. Sometimes one have to take the time out and explain to your children why these situation occurs even if it is bad on our…

Do you think we need a dress codes? Kids shouldn’t have dress codes because they are all mainly for the 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…

There are multiple differences and even a few similarities between a dress code with no school uniform and a dress code with a school uniform. Both schools with no uniform and schools with a uniform have a set of rules that prohibit certain clothing from being worn. According to the Warren East High School Student Handbook (2016), Students who repeatable break the dress code must have their parents bring them appropriate clothes and they could even spend the rest of the day in Alternate Learning…

What if you were called out 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…

Growing up people tend hear that high school and college are going to be the best years of their life. These are the times that a person starts to not just figure themselves out but also their future. They find that their life is starting to take hold and will start experiencing a lot of changes happening around them. One of the changes would be transitioning from high school to college. Although there are some differences between the two like dress codes and teaching techniques there are some…

What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of School Uniforms In many schools around the world, students are required to wear school uniforms. However, other educational institutions do not implement this rule as part of the decision reached by their boards and the parents. On your end, do you think if wearing school uniforms is good? This has become a subject of some arguments between proponents and critics. To come up with a well-informed idea about this, let us look at its advantages and…