Essay On School Dress Code
Dear Mr. Shane Backlund,
Did you know that kids across our district get dress coded everyday for the smallest things that teachers could just let go? For example, the other day I was dress coded for jeans that I was wearing and they had a hole in them yet they were still covered with string, but just because you could see a tiny part of my leg, it was a problem. Dress codes are sexist, humiliating, and make us feel like we are not qualified to make our own choices.
Here's proof that not only me feels like dress codes are sexist Anna Loisa Cruz a 7th grader got dress coded for something so small that someone could have let go, I know this because in an issue from neaToday it says, “Last year, Anna Loisa Cruz, a seventh-grader at Irvington School in Portland, Ore., was among four students who testified before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education to talk about school dress codes she shared the story of one of her schoolmates who was “dress coded” for wearing a skirt that fell a couple of centimeters above her fingertips when holding her arms by her sides.” I think this is sexist because later on in the article it states “She explained how boys whose trousers sag are simply told to ‘pull your pants up’ without further repercussion while girls are sent to the office and “forced” to call their parents to bring them a change of clothes.” Now do you agree with how I think dress codes are sexist? Boys get away with more stuff because girls have curves and that's distracting to the boys we are not objects and this is someone else’s story …show more content…
N.p., 01 Sept. 2016. Web. 31 Mar. 2017.
Kathy Hardie-Williams, MEd, MS, NCC, LPC, LMFT, Parent Work Topic Expert Contributor. "How Much Freedom Should Parents Allow Teens to Have?" GoodTherapy.org Therapy Blog. N.p., 02 Dec. 2014. Web. 31 Mar.
Did you know that kids across our district get dress coded everyday for the smallest things that teachers could just let go? For example, the other day I was dress coded for jeans that I was wearing and they had a hole in them yet they were still covered with string, but just because you could see a tiny part of my leg, it was a problem. Dress codes are sexist, humiliating, and make us feel like we are not qualified to make our own choices.
Here's proof that not only me feels like dress codes are sexist Anna Loisa Cruz a 7th grader got dress coded for something so small that someone could have let go, I know this because in an issue from neaToday it says, “Last year, Anna Loisa Cruz, a seventh-grader at Irvington School in Portland, Ore., was among four students who testified before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education to talk about school dress codes she shared the story of one of her schoolmates who was “dress coded” for wearing a skirt that fell a couple of centimeters above her fingertips when holding her arms by her sides.” I think this is sexist because later on in the article it states “She explained how boys whose trousers sag are simply told to ‘pull your pants up’ without further repercussion while girls are sent to the office and “forced” to call their parents to bring them a change of clothes.” Now do you agree with how I think dress codes are sexist? Boys get away with more stuff because girls have curves and that's distracting to the boys we are not objects and this is someone else’s story …show more content…
N.p., 01 Sept. 2016. Web. 31 Mar. 2017.
Kathy Hardie-Williams, MEd, MS, NCC, LPC, LMFT, Parent Work Topic Expert Contributor. "How Much Freedom Should Parents Allow Teens to Have?" GoodTherapy.org Therapy Blog. N.p., 02 Dec. 2014. Web. 31 Mar.