Dress Codes Should Be Allowed In Schools

Commonly banned items are things like short-shorts, things that don’t cover midriffs, and sleeveless are usually targeted towards female students and requires change because they are teaching women that their bodies and its appearance is more important than their education. In the current time period, women and girls are more than just their bodies, they are also individuals who also study and work alongside their male counterparts but, by taking away privileges of the female students for dressing in the clothes that are marketed to them, the schools and educators are pushing a systemically sexist belief that women’s bodies should be covered up and that their bodies are a distraction from learning and education. In the article Collarbone Showing? Girls Say School Dress Codes Are Sexist by Kathy Boccella, it describes a petition against the school dress code that 3000 students
Others might say that dress codes are put in place for a reason and to promote professional work ethic including the “no revealing clothes” policy. This kind of view can be seen a lot in older viewpoints as an article from 2005 about the dress code policies in school states “Most school dress codes seek to bar only the most problematic images and words, but some schools try a total ban on images and words on any article of clothing. As it turns out, the stricter a dress code, the better its chances of survival. Claims of discrimination against a viewpoint or group by the school are much more difficult to make in such cases.” (Robson) which is arguably incredibly incorrect as a comprehensive and less restrictive dress code would allow people to focus on their school work and less about whether their clothes are dress code are