Why We Should Not Have Dress Codes For Students

Dress Codes For Students
Requiring a dress code for students is like making the Pope wear red, you just don’t do it. The Pope wears white because it’s his right in the United States to dress how he wants so there’s no logical reason that school districts should take away students’ rights to freedom of expression. Most kids and teenagers across the globe express themselves and their personality through what they wear. It’s like their identity. The argument that implementing a dress code would eliminate problems involving provocative clothing, discrimination, and bullying is an invalid argument in my opinion. Students should not have a dress code. The first amendment grants all citizens of the United States freedom of religion, press, assembly, the right to petition and last but not least, freedom of expression.
In second your second hour English class a girl walks in tardy. Mrs. Crimmins pays no attention to her and continues to teach until she notices that the girl's shorts are shorter than what the school dress code allows. Your teacher now has to interrupt her class to tell this girl to change her shorts. This is a situation where having a dress code implemented, would prevent “class disruptions” like this right? Wrong. Imagine this same situation, but the school has a dress code for students. The student walks into the class tardy, no attention is directed towards her, until the teacher notices that her shirt is altered. The same shirt that every other female in the school wears has been tied in a knot and the girls stomach is exposed. Mrs. Crimmins has to interrupt class to tell this girl to untie her shirt. This is an example of how dress codes don’t solve problems with students not following it. There can always be alterations to dress codes. Bullies are going to bully kids and kids are going to be discriminated against. Problems like these aren’t just solved by making everyone dress the