Dress Code: A Bully or Acceptable?

Dress codes are not about clothes, they are about control. Dress codes normally concentrate on stereotypes. It shows that women are to be held to a different standard than boys. Giving the teachers’ responsibility to decide what is acceptable to wear and what is not gives the teachers the power to punish students for things other than behavior or academic issues and can cause friction in the learning environment.

A great solution for everyone would be a simple and gender neutral dress code for all students:
 Shirts to be worn at all times / No rips in jeans above finger tips
 No hoodies to be pulled over the head while on school premises
 No article of clothing can advocate the use of alcohol, drugs, gangs or anything illegal
 Shorts, skirts, and dresses must be no shorter than 4 to 6 inches above the knee
 No midriff showing / No underwear showing
 Nothing sleeveless without a t-shirt underneath

This is a good gender neutral compromise that students and teachers can implement. Dress code should not be an issue and students should still be able to express their individuality. . School is a place to learn and not a place where students should be judged on the way they dress. Students are told to accept diversity but how can they do that when they are being judged based on what they wear?