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“When The School Dress Code Discriminates” most girls at schools, the discipline they give to most of the students that are not in the dress code. It continues to unfairly target girls and students of color at schools also. In this article “ I read it talks about how they don't allow students of color or the girls to wear what they want all because they think that girl bodies are distracting for the boys when they are in class. The discipline they give to the kid with holes in their pants is asking students to put duct tape over the holes in their jeans, even suspending a student for a skirt that was too short, or sending a student to the office for not wearing a bra. Nowadays it is rare or impossible to find clothes that comply with the dress code. Most people that went to a school with a dress code struggled but now her daughter is going through the same thing, having these dress codes can really make you change people into someone there not. Also, shopping for a girl is very difficult because all girls love to wear crop top tank tops or shorts, leggings and jeans with holes. Especially when you're coming from a big family it is hard to keep up with shopping for clothes. “We want our kids to feel comfortable when they come to school”, this is what I want for me and my classmates or everyone in the school to feel comfortable when coming to school. 

“When The School Dress Code Discriminates” most girls at schools, the discipline they give to most of the students that are not in the dress code. It continues to unfairly target girls and students of color at schools also. In this article “ I read it talks about how they don't allow students of color or the girls to wear what they want all because they think that girl bodies are distracting for the boys when they are in class. The discipline they give to the kid with holes in their pants is asking students to put duct tape over the holes in their jeans, even suspending a student for a skirt that was too short, or sending a student to the office for not wearing a bra. Nowadays it is rare or impossible to find clothes that comply with the dress code. Most people that went to a school with a dress code struggled but now her daughter is going through the same thing, having these dress codes can really make you change people into someone there not. Also, shopping for a girl is very difficult because all girls love to wear crop top tank tops or shorts, leggings and jeans with holes. Especially when you're coming from a big family it is hard to keep up with shopping for clothes. “We want our kids to feel comfortable when they come to school”, this is what I want for me and my classmates or everyone in the school to feel comfortable when coming to school. 

“Dress Code” In this article I read about how they have all these different rules about dress codes and how they handle it when someone is not in dress code or is at school that they aint supposed to be wearing. The dress code rules are created by the school districts and employers to promote learning, safety, and image. Why are they worried about something that they were not at school for? The Supreme Court has never directly addressed school dress codes, if he did say anything, what is the whole reason for us to follow the dress codes at our schools? That the decision upheld students' right to express themselves through certain items they wear, this really makes a point about this whole dress code thing that whatever we wear expresses us but at the schools they don't let the students express themselves at all. There are some pros and cons to dress codes and the fact that uniform or dress code makes it more difficult to identify distressed students, who may reveal symptoms of psychological disorders by wearing unusual clothing. They also point out that teachers often waste the first minutes of class trying to determine which of their students who are in uniform have waivers and which are violating the code. That the uniform or dress code is much less important than most other factors, or even that uniform lower test scores. The dress code is written clearly, is not excessive or onerous, is applied in a consistent fashion, and does not obviously discriminate on the basis of race,sex,religion,and perhaps ethnicity. A dress code that discriminated on the basis of gender would be struck down. 

In this video I watched “ Middle school students asked to change clothes for violating dress code policy”. In this video it talks about how the school leader didn't let her return to class because she was wearing a collar dress with white tights and pants with boots. She was not allowed to return back to class because she changed her outfit. Having these different excuses like having to “measure her dress with a ruler” , as they were measuring her they told her it was violating the dress code policy. She was so happy that she was going to show off her new dress her mom just bought her but instead she felt uncomfortable. As the middle school mothers posted a picture of what her daughter was wearing to school but got told she was violating dress code rules. There were other people that commented on her post saying that the mother was right she's not breaking any dress code rules. They also went around showing the picture of the girl asking random people and teens if that was okay for school and everyone said yes even the one of the ladies said “she looks like she is finding her style”. 

In the first article “New York City High School Dress Code Crackdown”. I read about how the school reported about 200 students that got sent home over the dress code during the first two weeks of the school year . There were some items that they listed that are not permitted to be worn in school, which are hats,halter tops, sunglasses, and hooded sweatshirts that can't be worn to school. 90 percent of the students they had gotten sent home were girls, they forced them to either cover up or wait in the school auditorium until a parent arrived with appropriate attire. They even have the administrators pulling students out of the hallway because of what they were wearing, others were forced to wait while a parent was called. If the parents were at work or unreachable they were required to wear school logo gym shorts and a T-shirt that was never your size or choice. Regretless of what some students get they may not feel comfortable at all and it would be harder for them to focus because they are not comfortable with what they were given. Talks about how they are trying to teach the students and prepare them for college and the workforce. “Dressing for success applies not only to the workplace, but also to school”. 

In the second article “The Sexism of School Dress Codes” I read about how they noticed a major change in the ways the school in New York treated males and females. All the students noticed that not once have they seen a male being dress coded especially when they are wearing a muscle shirt. The girls in the school also noticed the amount of girls losing their self confidence. Especially body shaming these girls about their body, even blaming them for sexual harassment. It also depends on the administration and school board, some places are more relaxed while others take a hard line. All the time these girls get dress-coded or get told that you can't wear this you can't wear that, the dress code makes girls feel self-conscious, ashamed, and uncomfortable in their own bodies and not even want to come to school at all anymore. “Protecting themselves from unwanted attention. How these students in the article make a point, “These are not girls who are battling for the right to come to school in their bikinis. 

•  Thursday March 14, 2023 

• Second Floor girls, all different grade levels 

• Gave them a presentation on how the dress codes nowadays are changing

• At the end had them answer some questions for me

• They all want to see a change by the time the school year starts again.