Why Is Dress Code Bad

Why the Dress Code is Good and Why Its’s Horrible

(Source: http://news.eastvillagers.org/2011/08/17/why-dress-code-is-good/)

Most Schools have some kind of dress code, although some places enforce it less than others. Newport Harbor doesn’t enforce it as much as other schools do. If we wore clothes like how we do now in another school, you would probably get dress coded.

The Dress Code is also to help from distractions like weird, strange clothes, it often distracts the students from learning. Not only that, but in High School there is large groups of gangs, and they can’t wear clothing that represents them and wear anything offensive, because then less violence will occur.

The Dress Code promotes how we act. If you dress professionally, then that’s how people will take you as. A professional. And from what they expect is how you

According to think progress, students at a Staten island high school are frustrated with a new strict dress code that’s landing “girls in detention for wearing shorts. Despite the fact that many of their classrooms don’t have Air Conditioning. The school gave detention to 200 students, 90 percent of them were females.

Both Male and Females have complained that the dress code is “sexist and “biased” toward young women. One teenager said that the school should be an all-boys school. Since the code only applies to women. Another student said that “it was humiliating to be pulled aside like an object” to be told that her outfit is inappropriate.

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.

The parents across the nation are increasingly pushing back against the “double standard,” saying that it sends “harmful messages” about gender stereotypes to