Lafayette County School District Dress Code Equality

Let’s give our girls their self esteem, individualism, and rights back!!
Society as a whole puts too much pressure on girls, defining what they should or should not wear at such a young age. Making the dress code more gender-neutral not only makes the rules more inclusive and eliminates the bias towards girls in schools, but also teaches the students who may be “distracted” by another student’s outfit choices to grow up and be mature about the situation, as girls should never be blamed for that.

Government institutions, such as public schools, really shouldn’t impose their opinions on what students should and should not wear, especially by creating subjective guidelines that open too many doors to gender discrimination. Although I realize the need to present professionalism in academic environments, fashion is a student’s personal choice and expression and as as long as a student isn’t eliciting harm or violence, there is no need to creating a situation out of nothing. This therefore wastes class time, and only enforces the antiquated notion that girls have to limit themselves in many ways to conform to the ideals of boys in society. I have hope that the transformation of the female-biased dress code into one less gender-biased will help eradicate this notion inside and out of the classroom.

Having a cookie cutter dress code simply is NOT the answer. Everyone is built differently, and we need a dress code that allows for that. This petition suggest that our dress code be changed to The No BBB Rule! No Butts, Boobs or Bellies Showing!

I would like to see the following dress codes removed from the handbook:
1. Shorts must be 3 in above the knee.
2. No leggings
3. No holes in jeans above the knee
4. Straps must be 2 fingers wide

And replaced with
1. Shorts must be worn long enough for no butt cheeks to be seen.
2. You can wear leggings.. as many leggings as you want… you are fully covered and there isn’t anything inappropriate about leggings.
3. Holes may be worn in jeans as long as no undergarments are shown and your private parts are not visible through the holes.
4. Shirts must have straps.