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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unisex dress code.

Hold girls to the same dress standards as the boys.

Ts with sleeves, stomach covered
shorts must be at least fingertip length
no skirts for anyone

Done.

Simple.

Anyone who wants to make it a sexist gender issue is just grasping at straws and picking a fight where there is none.[/quote]

I've posted this before. But the problem is, the attitude still exists. I happened to overhear a high school class meeting at my daughters school. (It was in the library where we were hanging out together between K dismissal and her older brothers). Our schools code is completely gender neutral. Still, the boys were explicitly told to be neater in order to be good role models, and the girls were explicitly told that their outfits were making the staff uncomfortable. The conversation directed at girls was also 5 times as long with detailed descriptions of body parts that were improperly covered.

I was disturbed enough to discuss this with a school official at a later parent feedback meeting (btw, having no idea this was a "known" issue with dress codes) and was told students had had similar complaints. (Good for them) The school actually did an audit of dress code infraction write ups, and girls and boys were similarly represented with similar infraction profiles. So the gender separation was totally not needed.[/quote]

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