Dress codes in high schools have been up for debate between students and administration for decades. They have long been a staple in schools, aiming to try and maintain a sense of “modesty.” However, some argue that these policies can be overly restrictive. Yet, it's important to find a balance between style and modesty. Many of the school’s administration offices have worked to try and minimize “classroom distractions” caused by clothing garments. This often leaves the dress code weighted to one side. Often dress codes are more focused on women. Faculty are often telling girls to “cover up” or “ your shoulder is distracting the class” and many other phrases. Looking at many dress codes today, 90% focus on women’s dress standards. Should schools …show more content…
They can be a fun, fashionable choice for students, allowing a comfortable outfit choice. They can be paired with high waisted bottoms to provide a more modest look. Students are required to be present at school for 8 hours or more a day, adding up to a minimum of 40 hours per week. Despite the desire of some students to wear cozy and coordinated outfits, schools have implemented strict policies against pajamas or loose-fitting clothing. For instance, Peaster ISD’s dress code explicitly prohibits clothing that does not fit properly, whether too big or too small, and also bans sagging attire. This policy restricts even basic outfits like sweatpants and sweatshirts. Student athletes often have late practices or games, which can lead to sleepless nights. They might prefer to dress comfortably in sweats and a sweatshirt, but this can be considered a violation of the dress code regulation that prohibits clothing that doesn't fit properly (either too large or too small). The prominent use of Spandex in volleyball uniforms has endured for an extensive period. Enthusiastic student crowds assemble to support their teams, displaying unwavering school pride. Interestingly, the prohibition of shorts in educational environments is justified under the premise of avoiding potential distractions. However, the emphasis remains on the game itself rather than the attire of the players. In a scholastic context, the presence of shorts in a classroom scenario is unlikely to disrupt focus. What is the worst thing to do? No shirt or tucked shirt? For example, in track practice, the boys are permitted to take off their shirts to cool off, but the girls are prohibited from tucking their shirts into their bras as it is considered a distraction. Agreeably, schools should have a dress code to a certain extent. Obviously kids shouldn't show up with no shirt, bathing suits, or other such clothing; but instead giving a more relaxed dress
Schools typically justify their dress codes by maintain that it’s important to keep the classroom free of any distractions, however, that language actually reinforces the idea that women’s bodies are inherently tempting to men and it’s their responsibility to cover themselves up.
Dress codes have become a typical affair for public schools. The weight of this matter only gets heavier with time, as fashion trends evolve with haste. Accordingly, the debate for and against dress codes still stands. This essay will summarize, make an argument, and analyze Krystal Miller 's article "School Dress Codes."
The belief that public schools should enforce strict dress codes has been the topic of many controversial and heated debates throughout history. Although it is uncommon for public schools to require uniforms, every school has some type of dress code. Elizabeth Forward High School in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, is no different than the rest of the nation. When caught violating the dress code, some teachers will choose to ignore it, whereas others will send the student to the high school office. If sent to the office, students are penalized with a day of in-school suspension instead of being allowed to call for a change of clothes. At first glance, the prohibition of tank tops, jeans with holes above the knee, and shorts and skirts shorter than fingertip length, among many other guidelines, seems reasonable, but after further reconsideration, it is clear that the dress code at Elizabeth Forward High School is ridiculous and hypocritical. I think that Elizabeth Forward High School should lift the harsh policies because of the temperature fluctuation in the building throughout the school year, recent trends among teens, and the hypocrisy associated with the dress code.
A school like Silliman University is an educational environment but still an adult sense of being. No one should be told what to wear once in an environment of adults or anywhere everyone has a stand out point in their style of clothing. College students are considered adults and should at least have the respect of coming as they are and not a made up robot that is controlled by a remote. Since college students are considered to be adults then they should have the privilege of dressing according to their desire. A dress code should not be enforced in the campus because the absence of a uniform does not inhibit the student from learning and understanding the subject at hand.
We’ve all seen it, do not lie. Boys and girls alike, making sexist jokes in the hallway and laughing like it’s funny. Seeing boys objectifying girls, and vice versa, as if it is not an action that is humiliating and ridiculous. Young and impressionable, we have been taught from a young age to fight each other and bully each other with a simple saying: “Girls rule, boys drool! Boys rule, girls drool!” Regrettably, the idea is displayed on T-shirts at Target and Justice, and it’s tearing schools apart. This mindset of the superior sex is a horrible misconception of the world, implanted by ignorant adults to make ignorant children. And the most prominent ignorant rule in schools yet: dress code and uniforms. Innocently, people believe it’s a
Varying Issues Corresponding to the School Dress Code Shelby A. Scholle Newbury Park High School Abstract Dress code enforces the modest dress of students, preventing bullying and distractions. Numerous people believe clothing is a distraction and when eliminated the school environment is more professional and gives a better education to a student. Authority figures consider the school apparel enforcements are constitutionally sound, not affecting the child’s right to freely express, and providing a professional and working setting causing a better learning environment and decreased amount of bullying due to clear differences in appearance. However, opposers disagree with the restrictive code because of its limitations on individuality causing students to conform, sexist ideas in the form of punishment and how forms of clothing causes a distraction, and influencing rape culture. Costs for an advanced educational environment, positive, and negative effects will be explored within this paper to determine whether or not the dress code is necessary for an advanced learning environment or limiting the student's ability to express themselves.
This book contains a dress code that explains what is appropriate or inappropriate in school. However, many students do not even take a second glance at it once they receive it. These students also end up breaking the dress code, distracting others, and getting themselves into trouble as well. School is an academic facility, not a fashion scene. Children are expected to go to school to learn, and they should be able to do so without distractions from others.
America’s school systems seem to have many issues concerning students receiving a quality education without distraction. A current debate argues weather a dress code policy is efficient or takes away from student’s expression. Administrators at schools should regulate a dress code policy because the system improves discipline and student’s attention, reduces social conflict and peer pressure related to appearance, and dress code provides a more serious learning environment.
Ensuing President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address in January of 1996, more and more public schools are implementing dress codes and uniform policies in their schools. As a result, there has been an increase in legal controversies dealing with the issue. The reason that dress codes are not conclusively enforced is due to the application of the First Amendment to juveniles in the public school setting. The First Amendment states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Should children in public schools be able to wear whatever they want because of the freedoms classified in the First Amendment? I feel that the answer is no. Institutionalizing dress codes in public schools would do a great good for students and the entire academic community. I base my opinion on the fact that the pros of imposing dress codes outweigh the cons of the argument. By imposing dress codes or uniforms for students, it would eliminate opportunities for the ridicule of less popular or less fortunate students based on their attire, help prevent gang violence and gang members from wearing gang colors and insignia in schools, and generate an overall better academic concentration and discipline in the educational community.
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...
School dress code is controversial, sometimes being the cause of inner-school violence. The censorship of this raises issues when students complain that their personal rights to express themselves after schools limit what they can or cannot wear. School dress code are the guide lines that schools set that define what is acceptable to wear to school. An example of student dress code censorship was the case involving a thirteen year-old student in Williamstown displaying his political opinion about former President Bush (Nguyen). Because the shirt contained drug references and words calling the president a "crook", an "AWOL, draft dodger" and a "lying drunk driver," he was told to go home after refusing to take it off (Nguyen). This case went to two different courts, a US District Court, and the Second Circuit Court. The US District Court agreed with the school's opinion because they believed the images on Guille's shirt were not appropriate for a school atmosphere (Nguyen). Meanwhile, the Second Circuit Court ruled that the school should not have censored the shirt because even thou...
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
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.
As seen in the processed data table, as the intensity of the exercise increases, so does the participant’s heart rate. The graph also supports this by demonstrating that the two variables have a close positive and linear relationship. The data points are close to the trendline which has a positive gradient of 0.3839. The r2 value of 0.9791 is very close to 1, meaning that it has a strong positive relationship. The value also shows that the two variables have a positive correlation in which one variable increases as the other also increases, which supports the other data collected. Furthermore, the error bars on the graph displays the standard deviation of the data points. At an intensity of 140 metronome bpm, the standard deviation
While dress codes are a necessity in schools to regulate what is and is not appropriate for the learning environment, the fact that they place blame on females for how they are treated because of their clothing is completely sexist and unfair. Hardly ever is a boy busted for wearing athletic shorts or bro-tanks when he should not be, but as soon as a girl wears leggings or shows her shoulders, she is persecuted and given punishment. This is about as unfair as school systems can be, and it also sends the message to girls that what they perceive as being cute and fashionable is perceived by others as “offensive” and that it is their fault for anything bad that happens to them. These ideas should be changed so girls do not have to feel guilty and boys can stop thinking that their behavior in these situations is acceptable.