Dress Code
Erin Paetz, CeCe Santiago, Sam Murphy, Ana Ruiz
What do you think is appropriate?
Boys, please draw what you feel girls should be able to
wear!
Girls, please draw what you feel boys should be allowed
to wear!
Then, boys send one girl and one guy up to the board to
draw what you guys came up with as a whole!
What is a Dress Code? How do they work?
A Dress Code is a set of rules and regulations that
states what children, boys and girls, are not allowed to
wear.
Boys and girls do not have the same dress code, although
some parts of the codes may be similar.
Generally, the School Board for each district enforces
the Dress Code.
There is no nation-wide Dress Code
Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent School District
1965
3 children (16, 15, and 13) wore black armbands 3 to
represent their disagreement with what was going on
between Vietnam and the U.S. Government
Children were sent home and suspended
School officials do not possess absolute authority over
their students. Students in school as well as out of
school are persons under our Constitution. Justice Abe
Fortas
Material and substantial disruption test
National honor society title taken away
A young girl delivering a speech at another school
No warning
No rules given before speech was present
Dress code at other school and not hers
Mid-thigh shouldnt be allowed
Last day of high school
Worse things
Suspended because she refused to
Authorities at the school threatened her
Dozen of girls sent home for violating dress code on very
hot day
Females are given dozen of rules to follow
Males are given three rules to follow
Males were wearing tank tops
Exceeding hot weather what else should they wear?
Collarbone exposed
Distract male students
Parents were outraged with the school
A lot of schools thought that this was too extreme
Shame Suit
Forced to change
Too short
People were outraged
Do you think that this is okay?
Suspeneded for wearing wrong shade of green
Eight years old
Was not dark enough
Polo shirt that is white, navy blue, or dark green
No spaghetti straps 2 days before homecoming
Not allowed to wear spaghetti straps or strapless dresses
to the dance
School only reminded the students not made the rule
Parents were outraged
Students were left to make risky decisions
40 girls sent home for wearing leggings
More than 40 females
Leggings were not supposed to be worn like jeans
Shirts were not deemed long enough
Prom goers were sent home
Students were sent home due to not appropriate attire
Parents were outraged
Parents even said that they had alterations done in order
to meet regulations for the school
What are Dress Codes like Today...?
Common Dress Code Rules
Fingertip Rule
Cannot show their stomachs or their shoulders
Shirts with profanity or an R rating are prohibited.
Leggings are treated as tights and must be worn with tops
or skirts that follow the fingertip rule.
Lake Park High Schools Dress Code
Students attire and grooming should not be suggestive,
offensive, obscene, disrupt the school, represent a gang, advertise
illegal substances, or endanger other students health or safety
and/or should adhere to the rules of modesty. Tank tops, seethrough, bare midriff, pajamas, and excessively tight/ short, etc.
garments are considered inappropriate school attire in and about the
building and during school-sponsored activities. Clothing is to be
worn as intended (bib overalls with straps up or down, pants/slacks
must be positioned at waist/hip level, etc.). Hard-soled footwear
must be worn at all times. Heavy chains/ spikes should not be worn
around the neck or hang from clothing. Jackets and headwear (hats,
bandanas, etc.) will not be worn or carried during the school day.
Headgear will be confiscated until the end of the school year.
Turn and talk!
Turn and talk to the person or persons next to you about
a situation you or someone you know has been in regarding
Dress Codes.
Each group will share at least one story!
The Sexism of school Dress Codes
Sexism: Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women,
on the basis of sex.
The impact on students:
Negative biased rules can impact girls confidence and sense of self
Dress code makes girls feel self-conscious,ashamed, and uncomfortable in
their own bodies
Causes interruptions in learning in order for teachers to address the
issue.
Constant awareness of their physical identity and how the world reponds to
it.
Humiliation
Examples of Sexism in schools
In some instances, girls must wear brightly colored shirts that can
exacerbate the embarrassment, emblazoned with words like Dress Code
Violator.
19 percent of LGBT students were prevented from wearing clothes that were
thought to be from another gender and that number was higher for
transgender students, nearly 32% of whom have been prevented from wearing
clothes that differed from those designated from their legal sex.
At Cierra Gregersons homecoming dance at Bingham High School in Utah
asked female students to sit against the wall, touch their toes, and lift
their arms to determine whether their outfits were appropriate.
Transgender students are sometimes excluded from yearbooks
How are students reacting?
The growth of platforms like facebook and instagram, along with a
resurgence of student activism, has promoted a major uptick in protests
against attire rules;
#IAmMoreThanADistraction, trending topic on twitter that has
thousands of responses from girls sharing their own experiences.
Hundreds of Change.org petitions
Numerous school walkouts
