Let’s Talk About Dress Code

I’m back to talk about our dress code. The rules have changed since my last article in May of 2021, but somehow they make less sense now. It was going good for a while, but recently there have been many complaints regarding the dress code. 

Among those complaints are that it isn’t being fairly enforced for everyone, there are hardly any consequences for breaking the dress code, and maybe this is far-fetched but the dress code is also sexist. 

The enforcement of these rules is non-existent. Students don’t care to follow dress code because the rules aren’t enforced and there aren’t really any consequences for not following the rules, so why follow them? 

I’ve seen how unfair the dress code can be. A lot of people may think “well you’re a girl of course you’re going to say it’s unfair.” It might be slightly more sexist towards girls than guys but it’s also unfair for everyone. In the handbook it says “no unbuttoned shirts or blouses” which is kind of outdated. Just say shirts, the blouse part is not needed. There is no reason to specify between girls and guys in the dress code.

There is body-shaming with the way that people are dress coded. Say a girl with a larger chest has to change because the shirt she is wearing is too low cut, but a smaller chested girl wears the same thing and no one says anything. The junior high girls most commonly break the dress code, but when high school girls wear the same outfit they get in trouble meanwhile administration says the younger girls are fine.

This needs to be addressed because at this point I don’t see the need for a dress code at all.