We as high-school students in a Performing ARTS School, deserve to have our freedom of expression.
Here at CIVA Charter School, the new dress code only furthers the control schools push onto students, limiting our right to freedom of expression, and our ability to present ourselves how we see fit, giving us our own individuality! It's time we stop simply conforming to whatever unjust means of control are thrown our way. We are the youth of this nation, and we deserve to wear designs on our shirts to show that we are our own people.
Join the cause today, to make a change in our dress code. It could lead to so many things including: a sharp rise in academic progress within the student body, increased happiness among highschoolers, and above all promote our own diverse individuality!
Dear School Faculty / To whom it may concern
I am writing to request an appeal to a certain aspect of this years newly introduced dress-code. I, as well as a majority of the student body, feel oppressed and misrepresented in our school. There has been a seemingly severe amount of limitations placed on the student body, specifically our freedom of expression. We, students of CIVA, attend this school to achieve academic success through the privilged use of a Perfoming Arts facility. However, it is very apparent, that for an arts school, we have attained a new lacking of any "art" what so ever! The dress code has exceeded a new height, and has gone above and beyond what any dress code -- apart from a private school -- should ever go. It has gotten to the point of limiting the excentric expression students need in a school enviornment, or any enviornment for that matter. Prohibiting designs on clothing at school, greatly limits any individual from being their own person, through style and uniqueness. Not to mention the financial strain on kids who can barely afford the clothes they already have, expelling most of their wardrobe to nothing, are forced to shell out money to purchase new clothes to conform to an unjust dress code. We at CIVA believe that expression comes in many forms, and one of the main contributors being style. Art and design are two of the greatest mean of expression, especially when dealing with style. It is in our nature to express ourselves through art, whether it be something we create on our own, or attain through personal choice. However, this cannot be achieved through the limitation placed by the dress code. So it is, that I request a repealment of the design ban from the dress code, in order to promote a better mean of expression for the student body, as well as the hypothesized and supported idea of increased happiness among students. Which in turn makes a better enviorment for all attendants to the school.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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Jacob D. Rose
Encl: Dress-Code
