Dress Codes In High School

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There are many occasions when people don’t agree with what someone says or wants, but they tend not to voice their disagreements. I, on the other hand, always stand up for what I believe in. One instance when I decided to stand up for myself and challenge an idea was when my school decided to implement a very strict dress code after the start of the school year, despite girls wearing clothes, that were later deemed inappropriate, without any trouble from the teachers and staff. Now, dress codes are very common among middle schools and high schools. However, there is a distinct group that they focus on. Girls. Dress codes are telling girls that are as young as 11 that they can’t wear shorts or tank tops to school because it will be distracting …show more content…

I found out that it causes girls to be insecure about how they dress, inside and outside of school. It affects how they dress on a regular basis and causes stress because girls are walking around worried that they will get in trouble for what they are wearing. While dress codes are set in place to make the school environment less distracting, it ends up causing a distraction for girls because it’s something that they always have to have in the back of their mind. At my school, it was a humiliating experience if a teacher found what you were wearing was against the dress code. Girls would have to wear a scarf around their waist for the rest of the school day to cover shorts that were found to be too short. Students would laugh at these girls, saying that it was their fault that they had to wear it. Again, I found this unfair for many reasons. These days, it is hard to find shorts that are fingertip length for most people, so instead of wearing jeans in 100 degree weather, these girls decided to stay cool by wearing their shorts. People are also built differently. Some people have really long arms while others have really short arms. This means that two girls could be wearing the same pair of shorts, but because one has long arms, she gets in trouble but the other girl doesn't because she has short

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