As a guy, I feel personally attacked that our school system thinks that us guys are unable to handle ourselves and that we don’t know how to be mature and solve situations where we get “distracted” at females shoulders. The rules of the dress code are as follows: 1. Pants must be worn at the waist. No sagging allowed. Holes in pants or shorts must be below mid-thigh length. 2. Shirts, blouses, and dresses must completely cover the abdomen, back, shoulders and must have sleeves. Shirts or tops must cover the waistband of pants, shorts or shirts with no midriff visible. Low-cut blouses, shirts, or tops or extremely high tube tops, or any top that exposes cleavage are prohibited. 3. Head apparel , except for religious or medical purposes must not be worn in the school building. 4.Footwear is required and must be safe and appropriate for indoor and outdoor activity. 5. No racial or ethnic slurs, gang affiliations, vulgar, subversive, or sexual language. 6. Shorts, skirts, or dresses must be below mid thigh length. 7.Sleepwear, pj’s, and/or blankets cannot be worn in school. These rules have not been updated since the 1990 when most of our parents were still in school and/or have just graduated. Studies show that in Roanoke county in Virginia allows their students to wear tank tops in schools. I believe that we need to reevaluate our dress code and update it to fit with the current and upcoming generation. We should allow tank tops at school. We should also allow blankets in school to make the class a little more comfortable instead of those hard chairs and desk. Our school board needs to have a little more faith and respect for the upcoming generations and should take in student opinions when updating the dress code.
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