High
schools are trying to rule children’s lives; they force them to dress a certain
way, and force them to do exactly what they’re told when they’re told to do
it. When you get into the real world,
there’s no one to tell you what you’re supposed to be doing, so why start so
early?
The
dress code like the one mentioned in this article deserve to be burned. Yes, it’s understandable that it might be a
tad distracting to other students if your butt-cheeks are hanging out, but news
flash: we all have butts. We all have
boobs, we all have stomachs and legs and backs.
If it’s hot, students don’t want on jeans and full length shirts that
are going to cling to them when they start to sweat. It’s uncomfortable, and distracts them from
their studies.
One
of the main reasons why students aren’t allowed to dress comfortably is because
it makes the males at the school (teachers and students alike)
“uncomfortable”. Honestly, boys won’t
usually complain if they can see half of a girl’s rear-end. And teachers don’t have to look. Even if they did, they truly just need to
stop over sexualizing the female body. Seriously,
we have boobs, who’d have thought?
High
schools are power tripping; just because you can boss around 2,000 students doesn’t mean you should.
Students need to learn to be independent, may it be in high school, in
college, or in the workplace. When you
go off to work, you’re not going to have your boss holding your hand, telling
you what to do constantly. And if they
do, they shouldn’t. As stated above, we
all have bodies; why is that such a big deal to some people?
Students
need to be able to express themselves.
As badly as the school board wants us to be, we’re not robots. Students have their own thoughts – their own
feelings – and high school can’t take that away from them no matter how hard
they try. What are they going to do
next, tell the students what they can and cannot bring for lunch? Tell them who they can and cannot hang out
with?
Some
students at high schools are asked to put on a sweater or a longer shirt when
they’ve got about two inches of skin showing, whilst other students walk around
half naked without a problem. Why should
there be a double standard? That’s like
the parents of twins telling one twin to get a job, and telling the other that
they’re too young for a job.
Some
students who are larger are also asked to change. So a girl who weighs 110 pounds can wear
teeny-tiny shirts and get away with it, but when a girl who weighs any more
than that wears a shirt that doesn’t go down to her pant line, she’s asked to
change. A girl with short legs can wear
a skirt that goes a bit above the knee can go through her day peacefully,
whilst a girl with long legs can’t wear a knee-length skirt without getting
dirty looks and a call to the principal’s office.
At a
high school named OD/Park in Orillia, Ontario, they have something called
“Commit to Character Traits” which are basically the school’s rules to live by,
and one of them is: “Empathy – We strive to understand and appreciate the
feelings and actions of others”, yet several of the students who have been
called out for wearing clothes that do not follow the dress code are not being
understood and are never asked why they’re wearing what they are wearing. The school is hypocritical; if they can’t
follow their own rules, how do they expect the students to?
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