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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher, and I feel really bad for the teen girls that feel that they have to show everyone their everything to get noticed, and for my male colleagues that feel like they can’t even say anything to them.  It’s pretty hard to learn when you are busy tugging your shirt down or up or whatever.  Occasionally, you see a boy whose pants are below his ass, and we address that, too.  But usually it’s the girls… Sorry if that sounds sexist, but that’s what’s up.  I imagine some of their parents have no idea what they look like during the school day. No way some of these girls left the house like that. And her hands are tied about enforcing anything… Because of all of this feminism BS.  How about feminism is you’re worth more than your body?  No way these girls dress like that for themselves.  It’s all totally uncomfortable.  There’s a time and place for everything, and I’m sorry, school is not it.  Maybe the beach?[/quote]

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People complaining that dress codes are sexist don't admit that the female body has more to be revealed in a sexual way than the male body.  Boys just need to wear non-mesh shirts and keep their pants up.  Girls need to keep their hemlines down, waistlines down, and necklines up.  Both can easily be held equally to no-spaghetti straps.

[b]PP hits on the real problem and truth:  girls aren't dressing this way for themselves.  They dress to out-do/keep up with the other popular girls and to get attention from the boys which they then complain about.  Can't have it both ways.  If you don't want that kind of attention, don't draw it to yourself.  And no, that doesn't excuse boys from crass disrespectful behavior.  Everyone is responsible.[/b]

And PP is right about a time and place for everything. Nothing wrong with "dressing for the occasion" or for the job you want.[/quote]

Yeah, I just will never understand why believing that tube tops, spaghetti straps, or tiny (tiny!j shorts are not appropriate at school is “body shaming”.

As to the bolded above, I think some evidentiary support for this may be in looking at whether lesbian teens and straight teens are dressing similarly.  My observation of the students and my kids high school suggest that they dress very differently.  I interpret that to suggest that straight girls are dressing to get boy attention.

We should expect all students to dress respectfully and professionally for the learning environment.  To me, that means not a lot of skin (or undergarments) showing, faces showing (so no hiding in your hood, totally different from a head scarf), clothing that is not distracting (to the wearer or to others).  [/quote]

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