Should Dress Codes be Enforced?
If you ask me, one of the best parts of virtual school is the fact that we have no dress code! I’m new to homeschool and virtual school, I came here just for the semester, and I’ll soon be faced with the laws of dress code. Honestly, I think sometimes dress code is really unfair. At my old school you could get an ISS for wearing the following:
- A sheer shirt. If you have a tank top that is two fingers wide, you will get sent to ISS
- Pants that are even just shy of your fingertips.
- Any sort of unnatural hair color. If you are a blond and dye your hair brown, they would check your records and if your hair color isn’t your natural, you would get in serious trouble.
- No holes in any of your clothing. Not even a teeny tiny hole in your shirt, right at the hem,!
- Dirty shoes
- Hole-y shoes
- Extreme makeup. No bright eye shadows or anything. (I got away with this one for years!)
- Bright neon clothing.
- Hats. (I actually got away with this rule all of last semester. I wore a black beanie EVERY DAY)
- Sunglasses. Even if your glasses were tinted you could get in trouble.
- Duct tape. Some girls would come to school with duct tape handbags or bows and they would get confiscated.
- Anything else that is a “Distraction.” A teacher could put you in ISS for anything!!!
Like I said, I don’t think dress codes, or school uniforms are fair, but do you guys? Are you for or against school uniforms? Comment below!
Audrey • Apr 8, 2015 at 6:00 pm
I believe that, in many institutions, the dress code is sexist. It is barely targeted at OR enforced with boys, instead targeting girls — and getting them in major trouble — for things that either aren’t a big deal, or they let boys get away with all the time. As long as it does not contain profanity, and you’re wearing clothes (with the obvious exclusion of things like, say, undergarments only), you should be allowed to express yourself, no matter your gender, through your hair, makeup, and clothes.
Katie Clardy • Mar 26, 2015 at 4:41 pm
No! Teens should be able to dress how they want
Molly Pinkstaff • Apr 3, 2015 at 12:09 pm
That’s what I think. Everyone is telling us to be individual and to be our own person, but they’re taking that away from us. Honestly, I don’t think that teachers should freak out about our attire as long as it is APPROPRIATE. If a student shows up at school wearing a drug promoting shirt then the student should have to change it. If a girl shows up at school and is wearing a black tank top and a sheer white t-shirt over the tank top, I think that that is okay as long as it is appropriate. I do agree with the pant length rule. That is the one of the only rules that I believe should be enforced.