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Dress code has been a controversial statement for the last couple of years but where did it all start? In the 1966 State of the Union address, President Clinton called on American schools to require uniforms to ensure the safety of school children. Although some schools complied with this suggestion, many schools felt this was too extreme of a measure and began to implement school dress codes.
Nowadays dress codes have come so far that students are not able to express freely their way of thinking, feeling, or opinions. A school in Giles, Tennessee told a girl she could not wear a shirt with a pro-LGBT message on it as it might provoke other students and make her a target. This is an example of a lack of freedom of speech so it’s not even about if the skirt is too short or “you are showing too much skin” but about the student’s sexual identity and their way of feeling. As the ACLU points out, a landmark case dating back to 1969 upholds students ' right to freedom of speech through what a student chooses to wear.
Today in the world only 7% of people are Atheist which means that they do not believe in any kind of religion 93% of the world’s population is either born into a religion or grows into one but when it comes to showing what you’re proud of in a school nowadays it has become harder and harder. According to the website “Love to Know” By Amy Guertin, she says; “several students have had to fight for their right to wear a pentagram, the symbol for the Wiccan religion, to school.” a great example of this is Nashala Hearn who was suspended from school twice for wearing her hijab, with school officials claiming the hijab did not conform with dress code policy.
These are only two reasons out of many about how strict and even degrading some rules of dress code can be. Schools are starting to become so strict that they have to apply some rules to even not give the students the freedom to think and believe whatever they want which are basic human rights. Some have even come to light some cases that have to do with sexism towards girls blaming them for a boy’s way of thinking and if they cannot keep it in their pants “It was the girl's fault, she knew what she was doing” but not only that but they even want to ban t-shirts that show how proud you’re for loving freely any gender you want or ban your believes or better say the things that make you, you.
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