Dress Code

People in the United States hear all the time in the news and gossip about kids going against their school rules. Especially when it comes to the dress codes that seem to restrict the children from a lot of outfits. In recent news, the people have been more focused on the attire of the other side of school though, the teachers. In most schools, there is not a set list of dress codes for teachers. With that, teachers have been dressing more casually than ever before. Does dressing less professionally cause an effect on the students that they teach? I believe this political cartoon by Dave Granlund is stating that a dress code needs to be better enforced for teachers due to their more-casual dressing these days.
The cartoon by Granlund shows
There has been a public outcall of a woman teacher in Atlanta who was called out on wearing inappropriate clothing to teach her 4th graders. In one picture, she is seen wearing tight jeans, a t-shirt, and a baseball cap (Fourth-Grade Teacher). According to “Secondary Student’s Perceptions of Teachers Based on Attire” by Frank Till, when asking a wide number of teachers, many teachers responded that they are treated less professional and less respected when wearing jeans and tee-shirts. The teachers who were asked work for Midland Park School District in New Jersey which does not have a dress code that is written for teachers. The absence of this code is making the teachers not put as much effort into their appearance while getting ready for work. Figure 1 is a picture from Weekly Devolution that shows how teachers have evolved by dressing more casually and casually. It shows the last teacher barely wearing anything. By not having dress codes for teachers, it also makes the children/teens feel like it is not important to dress well in society. Karina Bland wrote in the Arizona Republic, “In Arizona and across the country, school boards and superintendents increasingly are adopting dress codes and guidelines for teachers and other school staff, staying they should set an example for students with their own attire.” In contrast, this article also brings
With statistical data, teachers feel like they are treated with less respect when they dress more casually. The students need to have role models in front of them that show it is important to dress for success. It is also possible that the teachers will feel uncomfortable though but this is a job that they signed up for. Without these dress codes, who knows what teachers will be wearing in the future and what we will be seeing in the news. There needs to be more dress codes for teachers around the United