Many of the students at P.C.T.I have not been following the rules that are stated in the handbook. Even after several warnings, students don’t seem to follow the rules. In order to get students to follow the rules, propaganda techniques need to be used. These techniques will convince students that they need to follow the rules. One rule students constantly break includes wearing the wrong pants. Students must wear flat front khaki pants that are not skinny or have pockets on the back. Last year, many students got away with wearing skinny pants to school. So, this year many students continue to wear the wrong pants because they believe no one will stop them. The disciplinary office sent out emails to all the students with images of what …show more content…
Of course, no student want to sit in an hour long detention just for wearing the wrong pants. This rhetorical question will convince students to wear the right pants and not risk anything because the punishment will be a detention for a long time. Students need to be reminded and asked if they want detention for such a silly thing. This will ensure that students wear the correct khaki pants to school.
Students also fail to wear their ID and have it visible. In order to ensure students have their ID’s on and visible, teachers, security guards, and other staff members must constantly repeat ‘put your ID on’. This constant repetition of ‘put your ID on’ will convince students to put them on because every single teacher told them too. Students should be reminded before class, in the halls, and at lunch. Students will eventually put their ID on before anyone asks them too. This repetition will be engraved in students minds before the end of the year. Students will eventually get tired of being reminded so they would put their ID before they have to hear the same command over and over again.
Some students also fail to wear their polo, especially during the winter season. Many students
In a bigger picture, students don’t come to school for a fashion show they come to school for an education. Somewhere along the line some students and parents have forgotten that simple fact. In some districts, like Wilson County Schools, the dress code violations got so out of hand that administration had to threaten suspensions, “During the first six days of the policy change 184 high school students were suspended.” (Creech, 1). The Lima Senior High School campus made the same decision as the Wilson County Schools. On Tuesday January 27, 2009, the Lima City Schools suspended about 164 students for dress code violations. They both knew that their students were having problems following the rules, and since the punishments that were set didn’t affect the students they did the one thing that got the students attention.
Ever wonder what it would look like to have all students wearing the same white polo shirt, black pants, and a district sweater walking in the hallway? Nowadays, public school and many districts are discussing the possibilities of enforcing the uniform policy. In most places, many private schools already require students to have their mandatory uniforms; however, there are only a few public schools adopting this mandatory school-uniform polices as one of their enrollment requirements. The reason why not all public schools participated was because people believe that they are violating the freedom of choice when enforcing this mandatory uniform policy; yet problems such as bullying and segregation, emerged in these schools. Some people still think uniforms have no benefits at all. However, all public school students should be required to wear uniforms because it would improve the academic performance, reduce the violent behaviors based on appearance judgment, and provide less stress for both parents and students.
Life is full of distractions and, for high school students, inappropriate clothing has the potential to grab much attention. However, does the matter of clothing warrant strict rules? I agree that, like alcohol, the students’ attire should have rules regarding whether or not the choices in clothing are suitable for a public school setting. I also agree that violators of school rules should receive punishment for their lack of compliance to the school policies. However, there is a fine line. Some schools, like Carroll High School, are taking dress codes too far. One rule in particular hinders the students’ ability to wear pants with holes in them. It makes sense that holes located in certain places might cause a...
...oday there are increasingly fewer attacks on the student body regarding their clothing, undoubtedly to prevent upsetting more parents. We can see in Source F that this pressure to look a certain way never really ends, and this is true for both men and women. Although this pressure to have a perfect appearance doesn’t stop after high school, the Bedford North Lawrence Community Schools should be understanding and more lenient on some of the less scandalous clothing choices to make students feel comfortable and give them a realistic feel for how people dress and behave in public. In the end, everyone’s body is their own personal business and should not be dictated by another person or shamed for how it is presented, however BNL behaved the exact opposite of this at the beginning of the school year, making the way the administration handled the situation inappropriate.
According to greatschools.org, “Enforcing a strict dress code can place the focus of school on clothing and rules, rather than on education.” Most schools have specific uniforms that a child must wear in order to attend. Many children that go to school, have single parents and / or more than one ...
pants as they felt that the ban was targeted directly at female students and not
Varying Issues Corresponding to the School Dress Code Numerous cases have been presented and highlighted in the media based off of accounts from angered parents and students protesting the school dress code. Multiple reports are taken from females who experience the shorter end of the stick due to increased fashion interests and sexist mindsets of their school staff. Shame suits are humiliating outfits that those who break the rules must wear as a form of punishment, most of the time these consist of extremely unflattering clothes that have written phrases on them indicating that their appearance is due to their violation of the school rules. Punishments indicated a risk to the violators education caused by missed classes. Few in society do approve of the dress code as it controls female students’ modesty, banishes distraction, and preserves the professional atmosphere inside a school.
High school is typically a time when kids begin to distinguish themselves from one another. Students begin to develop their own sense of personal style, desperately trying to both fit in and stand out simultaneously. Being self-conscious and often lacking the confidence needed to assert themselves, teens are forced to use clothing and outward appearance as the means to manifest this individuality. Thus, students should not be forced to wear uniforms to school. Standard uniforms are unproven deterrents to student violence; are a "Band-Aid" to cover up the real problems faced by children and teens; and they violate students' right of self-expression, depriving them of their search for identity.
In a public setting like a high school, how a student or students dress, can have a negative effect on the entire student body, even with a dress code. On
evading that teachers judge them, uniforms are an obligation, it is not their choice. Teachers
Schools’ Uniforms and Students’ performance Many students might experience the conflict between the enforcement of uniforms from schools and the willingness to wear their own clothes. What is the difference between them plays a key role in making a decision? Schools always claim that the discipline, convenience of management and better study environment of wearing uniforms, students are more likely to stand out among their peers by dressing themselves. While parents’ viewpoints vary from the financial situation and the behaviors of their kids. “In 1993 the Will Rogers Middle School in Long Beach, California, instituted a uniform dress code.
The final reason, and possibly the most important of the three to change the dress code is that by telling a students that they have to change, a teacher or administrator is putting the value of the other students’ education above the dress code offender. Most often, the reason a student’s are told to change because their outfits are too distracting. a pair of shorts isn’t harming anyone, nor is it offensive. Are shoulders and legs so arousing that it completely stops anybody from being able to focus at all? Then, what will the suspect think? He or she can’t wear what she wants to because the education of the male students in her class is more important? It puts a student in a very tough spot because they are forced to make the decision between wearing what they want or wearing something that takes who they are away from
People do not reach their goals and accomplish their dreams by the clothes they wear but rather by the motivation and determination to thrive. To tell a student otherwise may result in a negative self-image.
A dress code enforces discipline toward learning by changing a person’s attitude toward success. Students generally act the way they are dressed. With fewer fashion distractions, school will be seen as a priority for teaching and learning rather than trend competitions. This alteration leads to modification in grades because it’s much easier to focus when everyone is dressed alike. Furthermore, a student’s attendance also improves; with the relief of picking out a new outfit every morning.
Maggie Davis Dr. Hank Stewart English Composition 20 March, 2014 Case Clothed: School Uniforms are a good thing Uniforms are a part of adulthood so why not go ahead and start practicing a dress code in primary and secondary school? I remember being in high school and wearing school uniforms. It was nice to wake up in the morning and not have to think about what to wear. Every public school in Ohio should establish a standard school uniform policy because it strengthens discipline, it equalizes all children, and it would be easier on parents. A standard school uniform policy should be made simple.