Should schools relax their dress codes?

[JuliaStyles]

High School Student Sparks Debate After Protesting School's 'Sexist' Dress Code
A viral TikTok has sparked an online debate on whether or not public school dress codes are necessary or just archaic. Students want to wear what they want.
"Our body our choice, it isn't our fault they're distracted. They can't take away our confidence and self-expression." The school principal was going to have an assembly on dress code so in response we wore crop tops to protest," Frick-Hisaw confirmed. "It was a day-long process, we showed up in crop tops and they started dress coding people." So the girls think that dress codes are too stringent. What do you think?

Yes, we want to see more skin (tongues out salivating)

Vote A

No, this is school, not Tinder/Instagram

Vote B

Let them, if they get pregnant it's their problem.

Vote C

No, too many people will be bumping into doors or poles

Vote D

What say you?

Vote E

Updates:

[Leavesbound]

Schools exist to educate students not to show off the latest fashions or for self expression. In most cases it is to prepare you for your adult working life and that includes work places that mostly have dress codes of one sort or another so you might as well get used to it. I am in favor of a mandatory uniform for all students. it does not have to be expensive or sexist. Just have everyone wear the school colors in either golf Tees or an Oxford style shirt. Everyone get's their choice of shorts or slacks or skirts with the length of shorts and skirts being the same. And yes if boys want to wear skirts let them. Most who do will get bored with that. I would limit jewelry to what most work places limit typically one pair of ear rings, one chain with pendant or one simple necklace. one bangle or bracelet or wrist band (not including a watch) and one ring per finger (not including class ring). I would not place limits on religious jewelry that is required by your religion. I would also place no limits on hair length but I would insist on limiting accessories to simple items preferably in school colors and not a ridiculous number of them. I would limit hair coloring to colors that naturally occur in human hair or school colors. This regardless of gender. I would limit make-up and nail polish but not by gender. As a nudist who has attended classes naked at a nudist resort I will also say that I would not object if everyone was nude but only if nudity was universal and mandator. The point of a uniform is to put everyone on the same level socially. Nudity does this as well as any nudist who has been to a nudist resort will tell you.

[zeitgeist057]

Go to school naked for all I care, obsession with clothes and sexualizing children are both dumb symptoms of a sick culture of sexual repression.

This is an age old generational issue, where the previous generations can't let go of their ideas about what is right, and the new generation wants to make their own statements about what they want, how they can be original, etc. It's why we always have new slang words that are just new ways of saying the same things. People don't want to say something is "good", they want to feel like their generation is original so instead it "lit" or "fire", and before that it was "sick" or "cool" and before that it was "hip", and before that it was "smashing" and before that I don't know but I guarantee you there have always been young people who need to prove they don't have to live like the generation before them.

There will also be those who feel the value of the generation before them and want to stick to "tradition". But "tradition" rarely lasts, it will just be a shifted shadow of what it was previously.

[Daniela1982]

These girls just want to flaunt their boobs and asses so they can show off on Instagram to get their daily dose of attention. These are the ones who will be getting abortions and wind up "18 and pregnant". Let me clue you in girls, you are not pole dancing at the local strip joint. You are in school to learn and set yourself up for college and a career. Guys don't need to be distracted from their learning to see your ass, boobs, or twat. You think you have a right to show off your wares, but other have the right not to have to look at your pathetic peep show. Save it for college where you can flunk out and spend all your time at the abortion clinic.

We don't need no dress code

It's not my problem guys get destracted

[kyleelyn199723]

No because school is not a fashion show. You are there to learn and not there to be the best dressed and I really do believe kids are bullied based on how they dress. I’m not trying to be that Karen but I feel like kids do not know how to handle school without rules. Leave it to college kids to decide. They get that privilege when they are in college

[MCheetah]

My high school literally introduced dress codes the first day we got there. We were the first grade to ever have dress codes and the uniforms were these sh*tty, ugly blue and brown colors that only one company made. I went to a public school, by the way, and this was a city-wide mandate; ALL public schools had to wear uniforms and the only difference were the main color and accent colors of the school. It was a MASSIVE scam introduced by the sh*tty Philadelphia mayor at the time, John Street, in order to make money and do business with this clothing company, which charged parents out the ass for these bullsh*t uniforms. But the fact remains, kids still protested and it was still bullsh*t.

When it comes to uniforms, this is a nuanced issue. No non-private school should force kids to wear uniforms. However, a dress code IS needed here, so teen girls aren't showing up with their tits and asses all out. No students should have the right to "wear whatever they want" and claim 'it's not our problem' when it's inappropriate or distracting. However, school uniforms are generally bullsh*t and cause MUCH MORE problems than they prevent. A large part of that is due to money and corruption.

At the end of the day, the parents should be the ones having input and deciding what is best for the students to wear at school. Clothing with political messages or statements can be distracting and harmful (like showing up with a Trump shirt in a liberal city or state). However, uniforms are expensive and hurt everyone involved except the assholes getting rich of them.

Each city or state should decide their dress code accordingly, but I do agree a dress code IS needed in most schools. Just not full-on uniforms.

[DWornock]

I watch a lot of Korean drama and the students all were the same uniform. Each school had a different uniform. And, The uniforms look very nice. See below:

South Korean High School Students

In the dramas, students are not complaining about a dress code. Of course, in South Korea, the students are in school to learn and hopefully get into an elite college; not to protest.

[libsaretards]

I do not believe in uniforms, but I do believe in a dress code. The point of school is to prepare students to be productive citizens (a. k. a prepare them for the workforce, college or military). Part of the work force is knowing how to dress professionally and appropriately for the work place. School is not a place for people to dress like they are on vacation. I do not just believe in dress codes for girls. I also believe boys should adhere to a dress code as well. Most schools that do not have uniforms have a reasonable dress code.

[lrichl]

Yeah ofc, the clothes someone wears is up to them. It doesn't matter if it is distracting, iys the the wearers fault. In school, it is your own responsibility to not be distracted by what someone else is wearing. That being said, it the cloths has hate symbol or inappropriate graphics, then thats where the dress code should be enforced.

[doopayo]

Yes. I don’t know why the way I dress has to be dictated by how some random boy is going to react. No one tells boys they have to dress a certain way or girls are going to react a certain way and it makes no sense because at school they act like girls have zero sex drive or less of a sex drive than boys when in reality we do but we have self control because we’re basically taught that so boys should be taught the same.

[kitkills]

What the fuck is wrong with you people. If someone wants to wear something, let them wear it. You keep treating guys like they're brainless sex addicts and that's what they'll become. Jesus christ, make people LEARN to mind their own damn business and they'll do it.

[Virgo31]

I believe they should be lessened not completely abolished. I’ve seen kids get dress codes because they had holes in their pants. The teacher literally put tape on their pants and after that I believed that the dress code should be lessened

[Anonymous]

notice how once again, they're trying to put the blame for this "oppression" on males? I know plenty of girls that would also be distracted by female students with their boobies showing through their shirts, and their dirty bomb distributors (BUTTS), barely contained in their pants.
Maybe they could make separate classrooms for students who actually want to learn, and those who only show up to school to show off their bodies and their clothes. It's hilarious to watch the fight for "female empowerment" always keep leading back to "female sexualization" and oddly enough, females fighting TO sexualize themselves while whining they're tired of being sexualized. Seems a tab bit hypocritical to me.

We need a meme here, with a girl walking around with her tits and ass hanging out as she proceeds to yell at guys for looking, and then her being all upset and sad, saying to herself " why aren't they looking at me?" Because that is life now.

[Zoetpoet]

I 100% think dress codes should be revised. There is no reason i should get dress coded for having holes in the knees of my jeans but students shouldn’t be aloud to wear like bikinis and shit to school. Like we are literally just there to learn, it shouldn’t matter what we wear and if everyone is so concerned they should 1. teach boys that women aren’t objects to get distracted by and 2. give a uniform if it matters so much

[Anonymous]

I am done with idiotic people who think women are asexuals. I also get distracted by a man's secondary sexual traits such as beard, adam apple, muscles etc. If anyone get distracted so much and dont have self control, they can get therapy or can fuck off to only boy's school. If there is going to be a dresscode, then both guys and girls should be forced to cover the same body areas period. It also disgusting how a 30 years old female retarded gager slutshame minors. This bitch need some therapy. Anyway dresscodes also include bra straps and so if you seriously get distracted by this, you need therapy. Dont force girls to wear bras or dont complain when you see the bra straps. Both guys and girl have the same nipples but for some reason girls are forced to wear bras. At my school there was no dress code and i never ever see any guy having a fucking problem with it

[hhadeshatesme]

dress codes are pointless. I’ve gotten dress coded while following the rules. having big tits automatically makes tight fitting clothes slutty

[Guffrus]

Uniforms should be issued by the prisons where they are serving their sentence, then everyone is the same, which is the whole point by the way.

[slatyb]

The young women are right. It's ridiculous to police women's dress because some boy might be distracted.

[AnnonEMouse]

Dress codes are dumb. They din't help you do your work better, and taking someone out of class for dress code is more distracting.

[wankiam]

when you relax uniform codes the whole thing becomes a fashion show which makes poorer students feel excluded and targeted at the same time

[najekim]

Going to high school in the early 70's mid-drifts weren't really in style then, at least in my school, but the school did have a rule of no bare shoulders for either gender.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Students should focus on their studies. It might be a good idea to return to gender segregated schools

[jamesgoldman]

They shouldn't, should upgrade into at a minimum 2 piece suits year round

[Aakash_Hangargi]

there's a uniform bc they want to tell that you are all equal and you need to form Unity

[just_a_potato]

What is this question. Of course the dress code should be changed just not to the point where its obviously inappropriate. A crop top shouldn't be a problem though 💀