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[quote=Anonymous]Uggh.  I hate dress codes.  IMO, they begin w/ some legitimate restrictions related to safety, gang activity and keeping explicit/controversial messages off t-shirts, but a really much more geared toward controlling female sexuality.  The focus always ends up being how much shoulder, cleavage and leg is showing on the girls.  IMO, that's why we still have news articles about adult women (like Hillary Clinton) that express shock at a little modest cleavage on the Senate floor, instead of focusing on the speech she was giving.

Girls used to not be able to wear pants, or shorts at all, etc.  Boys couldn't have beards or long hair or earrings.  Current dress codes are just a continuation of an imposition of traditional gender roles and norms.  It also sexualizes young girls who aren't even maturing physically yet, and makes them self-conscious about their own bodies.

I agree with a PP who said it's fine for a kid to go to school in shorts and a tank top.  Sorry, but if that is too "distracting" to the boys in school, then the boys should be taught how to control themselves.  I have a son, and I don't want him to learn that a girls' attire is any excuse for poor behavior of any type on his part.

I don't buy the argument that this teaches kids anything about appropriate professional attire.  Even when they are in conformance with dress code, the kids wouldn't be professionally dressed by any stretch of the imagination and sending the message that they are is not helpful.

Finally, for those that argue that dress code somehow improves school discipline, I don't buy it.  Our principal spends inordinate amounts of time talking about dress code and enforcing it, and it doesn't improve discipline a bit.   I'd rather she spend her time dealing with academic and behavioral issues head on.  I personally don't care about super short shorts and bra straps if the child wearing them is making As and showing up on time.  And if the kid isn't making A's, well then I doubt that the manner of dress is the root of the problem.

But, hey, that's just me.  Perhaps I listened to Marlo Thomas on Free to Be You and Me one to many times as a kid. (A person should wear what he wants to and not just what other folks say.  A person should do what she likes to, a person's a person that way.)[/quote]

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