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)
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No, this is school, not Tinder/Instagram
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Let them, if they get pregnant it's their problem.
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No, too many people will be bumping into doors or poles
Leavesbound | 74 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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.
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zeitgeist057 | 209 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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.
Except we're not talking about slang. We're talking about behavior that is inappropriate at school. Dress as provacatively as you want in your personal life.
@jerdanro And technically, these people are still kids. This is not just a generational issue; it's disgusting in general.
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Daniela1982 | 69 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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 codeIt's not my problem guys get destracted
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
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MCheetah | 86 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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.
actually, i second this. my mum pretty much had to sell an arm and a leg to get me a uniform. it wld be better to just give students a basic idea for dress (say a plain white shirt, tie & black trousers) & then allow them to buy from their preferred shop instead of get ripped off.
DWornock | 61 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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 StudentsIn 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.
I actually teach in South Korea and some schools don't require a uniform. In fact, many students wear plain clothes, but have this odd (to Westerners) habit of wearing the same clothing everyday. I suspect it's their "after school" clothing, hence, why they wear the same thing. Schools that do have uniforms are rarely that preppy as the picture, though. It's generally just a loose shirt and pants with the school colors and logo. Very casual and looks comfortable. Ties are often not required. Only rich kids dress like that picture you linked (and rich kids in the West would dress similarly at private schools).
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.
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.
Boys react to sight and girls to sweet words and touch. A guy can get hard just looking at a scantily dressed girl where girls don't. Besides how many scantily dressed boys have you ever seen at school?
@JuliaStyles I used to play basketball before Covid and the boys on the boys basketball team got to take their shirts off if they where ever hot but heaven forbid us girls on the girls basketball team wanted to wear our sports bras or tank top, we’d get dress coded or a teacher would tell us off. It’s a double standard
Are we going to discuss "Free the boobs" again? A boy topless and a girl topless are different, and you know it. If girls want to be equal to boys then they should be allowed to be drafted too.
"No one tells boys" You sure about that? Sure no one tells boys they shouldn't wear a dress, skinny shorts/pants, topless at school? Also no one is saying girls don't have sex drive. The difference is how they work which is something you're still ignorant of. Oh and that basketball thing guys going topless you're talking about, sure that's because it's sports. You girls can also wear short cycling shorts on a cheer leading team guy can't wear also wear. So what, are we complaining?
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.
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
We see what kind of fucking biased whore you are by making such poll idiot. Funny slso how you sexualize minores idiot. So you get turned on by saying kids in nok modest kids, pedo fucktard or why do you include the poll with tinder?
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
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
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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.
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Guffrus | 140 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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.
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slatyb | 458 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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The young women are right. It's ridiculous to police women's dress because some boy might be distracted.
They aren’t right. Young girls should not be able to dress like 18+ year olds at school. That should never ever be okay unless if they are 18. It has a lot more to do with boys just being distracted
@JuliaStyle any girl under 18 should not be allowed to dress that way and any school that allowed that could definitely end up in court for allowing that because it creates predatory behaviors.
@kyleelyn199723 So you would be labeled as a tease for dressing provocatively and saying you can't touch this. Try wearing those school clothes down an alley in The Bronx and see what you get.
@slaytyb what you aren’t understanding is that it’s more than just young men that can’t control themselves. What would a school look like letting a female under 18 dress like a stripper? Or dress of how my profile pic is? I would never send my kid to that school to be honest. There’s just certain clothes girls should not wear until they are at least 18 years of age.
@JuliaStyles , I’m 23 and I get harassed on a day to day basis by guys. It’s horrible. I don’t think a girl under 18 should be going through that possible harassment and it starts with the schools guidelines on what is and isn’t allowed to be worn.
@slatyb hijabs are a sign of religion which can’t be discriminated against for again court reasoning. That is totally different than inappropriate clothing.
@kyleelyn199723 Then dress conservatively. Where the hell is women's morality today? I really want to know what these girl's mothers think. Or maybe she dresses like a Ho too and has 5 guys fucking her on rotation? That would explain a lot.
@JuliaStyles harassment is harassment. I don’t think a minor should be capable of receiving harassment underneath a building that is supposed to be a safe place for kids
@Slayb you realize there’s adults in the building too? There’s teachers everyday that go to jail for having affairs with students. There was one in my town in high school. A child under 18 should not have the right to dress like an over 18 year old in the hands of a safe place for children. And who are you to say boys don’t get punished if they are caught causing harassment? Stop repeating the same answer over and over again.
wankiam | 620 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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when you relax uniform codes the whole thing becomes a fashion show which makes poorer students feel excluded and targeted at the same time
American kids should just wear a school uniform. my uniform was ugly as hell but everyone still wore it & nobody complained like this lmao
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najekim | 93 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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.
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Jamie05rhs | 240 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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I think it really depends on the school. Some dress codes are too strict while others are too lenient.
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SuccessfulHornDog | 687 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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Students should focus on their studies. It might be a good idea to return to gender segregated schools
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Aakash_Hangargi | 61 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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there's a uniform bc they want to tell that you are all equal and you need to form Unity
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just_a_potato | 55 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
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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 💀
The dress code needs to be reasonable, but do you think crop tops and short shorts are appropriate at school? Your situation and some situations my daughters have described are definitely unreasonable.
Depends how much the shirt is cropped. And no i don’t think short shorts are appropriate at school for the most part. But I’ve been dress coded while not wearing a cropped shirt, no cleavage or shoulders showing. seems like the dress code rules don’t mean anything and it’s more so rather or not a teacher deemed it appropriate based off their personal opinion.
I agree. I think the issue is less about having standards and more about how most teachers and school administrators are terrible at implementing policy. Knee jerk reactions seem to be the rule.
Anonymous
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Fucking dumb. They’re not their to look nice. They’re there to learn. Wear a fkn uniform and stfu.
School dress code must not be relaxed. Students are there to study, not to compete each other with respect to skin showing. It will lead to more sex than usually expected.
I'm all for a dress code. Having a bunch of teenagers walk around half naked in school sounds like a bad child porno movie to me. If you wanna walk around naked, wait till you're 18 and in college.
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