Dress Codes Persuasive Speech

As I walk down the main hallway of my small brick school, I am met with smiles and acknoleging nods from students and faculty. It isn't until I am seated in my second block class that I hear "Miss Lowery, that shirt is a little reavealing, don't you think?" shouted across the room. This draws the attention of around 20 other students who begin to giggle. I adjust my shirt and look down at the ground in shame. Once again, I have been publicly humiliated because my body was deamed sexual in the eyes of someone else. Far too often have I expirenced this, first and second hand. Sexist dress codes have been a hot topic in the media as of late. Many schools have found theirselves in the middle of lawsuits due to these outragous and humiliating dress codes. These types of issues could be prevented if schools did away with dress codes all together. Dress codes are unneccecary anyway because, It is not enforced by all faculty and staff members, it takes away students opertunity to express themselves and show

Many even go out of their way to break the dress code to see if they will get caught. The dress code has become some what of a joke to teens. That is why I believe that by doing away with the dress code we can get rid of the problem all together. It is a well know fact that things aren't usually a big deal until made so. I believe faculty would see a dramatic decrease of "innapropriate" clothing among male and female students if there was no dress code. It's not like someone is going to show up to school completely exposed because well, its illegal. Also, many parents find the dress code to be impeding on their judgement as a parent. My own mother has even called my school to say "If I thought she looked innapropriate I wouldn't have let her leave the house. That is my job as a parent not yours." I, personally, feel as though if there were no dress code I would have far less anxiety and stress about coming to