It's Time To Eliminate Dress Codes In Schools

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Recently there has been a lot of talk about dress codes. If they're sexist, racist or if they discriminate against different cultures. Each school has its own dress code and sometimes they can be strict and are usually enforced more on girls than boys. Less students would feel singled out or discriminated if schools would get rid of dress code People say that girls wear things like tank tops and shorts to show off their bodies, but, most girls wear clothes like that to be comfortable in hot weather. “When we tell girls that their bodies are distracting boys, we are really telling them that a boy's learning deserves protection over the rights of girls to receive an education."(French). Furthermore girls get dress coded a lot more than boys do and it's usually because they wear shorts that are assumed to be too short or their straps are showing. When a girl gets dressed in the morning she should not have to care about what she wears as long as it's not showing her butt, boobs, and it doesn't go …show more content…

And, it's not just girls, boys get dress coded too. “treating a female student differently from a male student in the application of a dress code may raise an inference of discrimination on the basis of sex.”(wermund). Therefore, boys don't get dress coded because to much of their skin is showing. It's usually because their wearing earrings or their hair was to long etc. “...dress codes were unfair because they prohibited male students from wearing earrings. One student complained about being required to tuck in his shirt, when that wasn’t required of female students. Another said it was unfair he couldn’t wear a sleeveless shirt and another complained about being required to wear a shirt and tie in a senior picture.” Also, boys and girls get dress coded but girls get dress coded for being a “distraction” when boys get dress coded because they don't look

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