Dresscode
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This document discusses issues with common school dress codes. It provides examples of incidents where students were dress coded in questionable ways, such as being asked to cover up at a dance because her dress straps were too thin, being given a "shame suit" to change into for wearing a skirt deemed too short, and a student being asked to leave a prom due to how the chaperoning fathers were staring at her. The document argues that many dress codes unfairly blame and shame girls for how boys may perceive them, rather than putting responsibility on the boys. It also questions whether most classes truly require such restrictive coverage of students' bodies for safety reasons.
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- 1. dresscoded: errors in the way we approach clothing regulations by keely kritz
- 2. define it: dresscode noun 1. a set of rules, usually written and posted, specifying the required manner of dress at a school, office, club, restaurant, etc.
- 3. where we go wrong the general principle of a dress code is a perfectly normal and sometime helpful ideal. HOWEVER there are many regulations in the average dresscode that void their use and fairness.
- 5. but does dresscoding really happen? Upon checking in at her Utah high school dance,, Finlayson was asked by a dance chaperone if she had a shawl she could use to cover herself. School officials later explained the dress failed to meet a dress code rule requiring dresses to have straps at least two inches across each shoulder. The message is sent to her and other girls in this community that what they wear affects boys thinking, and that theyre somehow responsible if boys have sexual thoughts about them, and that boys will think youre a slut if you wear certain things, Kimball said. Theres a hyper emphasis on dressing modestly as a girl because you dont want to be responsible for what a boy thinks. Its a subtler version of victim blaming.
- 6. but does dresscoding really happen? 16-year-old Florida student Miranda had her own run-in with school officials on the third day of the school year for wearing a skirt considered too short. Miranda was sent to the nurses office and ordered to change into what her mom called a shame suit because of its bright neon yellow color and the words dress code violation stamped on it.
- 7. but does dresscoding really happen? A prom organized for local homeschooled kids in Richmond, Va., took a turn for the weird and creepy after one of the students was asked to leave because the chaperoning dads couldn't stop staring at her
- 8. to recap This distraction standard for a dress code sets up a model in which the default student we are concerned about - the student whose learning we want to ensure is protected - is male. Certain classes involve activities that necessitate extra clothing coverage classes that require experiments involving chemicals that shouldn't come in direct contact with skin, for example, or a gym class requiring ability to move easily in clothing. It is however, dubious that a class exists where student safety is threatened by an exposed bra strap or 30.
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- #5: :35- 4:08 https://youtu.be/41J4XBjgOrw?t=34s