Dress Codes

Every weekday morning during the school year, I wake up in order to get ready for school. I eat breakfast, board the bus, and hope my day will be a good one. Once I exit the bus and enter the school, I am unpleasantly greeted by girls hanging out of their shirts along with boys' behinds falling out of their pants. Immediately, my hopefulness evaporates and is replaced with disgust. As I get past those crude sights, I witness a fight due to one student bullying another based on the unfashionable and plain clothes he wears. My day that was supposed to be great has been disturbed again. I know that I am not the only person troubled by these almost daily sights. Therefore, in order to achieve a less distracting workplace and help eliminate violence, Perry Meridian High School (PMHS) needs to implement a stricter dress code.

Dress codes have always existed in the United States. They were especially popular throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Once the ‘80s hit, the dress code fad began to die off until the late ‘90s came around. At the beginning of 1997, three percent of public schools required school uniforms, and by the end of 2000, the percentage had increased to twenty-one percent (“School Uniforms Timeline” 2). This is when school uniforms began to come back into style. More and more schools are now adapting school dress code policies. According to Matt Buesing, about twenty-two percent of children across the nation wore some form of a dress code in 2010 (Cavazos 2). Since then, David Brunsma has found that about one in eight public middle schools and high schools in the United States have policies about what students are supposed to wear to school (Motsinger 1). For example, certain schools have a strict dress code that ma...

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...l dress code. Once we implicate a strict dress code such as this, our school behavior will begin to escalate through the roof due to the amount of pointless distractions that will be eliminated. With the loss of the useless distractions, our grades will dramatically change for the better. This is due to the newly found focus that the uniforms will help us achieve. The number of fights we all witness each year should heavily drop now, also. Not only fights, but most disturbances that we come across should also vanish with the implementation of the dress code. Ultimately, everything involving our whole experience in school should get better. No longer would we deal with obnoxious distractions involving clothing and pointless fights that get us nowhere. We are the future, and a dress code is the perfect way to assist us in getting on to the path for success in life.