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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]

The dress code is part of the problem. The fingertips-shorts-rule is just plain silly, for example. I have shorts that are shorter than fingertip-length, and they are by no means short shorts, nor do I have particularly long arms, nor does anybody get distracted by looking at me when I'm wearing them (unless they have a thing for middle-aged women in mom shorts).

Inconsistent enforcement of the dress code is the other part of the problem. At my daughter's middle school, a girl with a figure got dress coded for wearing a strapless romper. The dress code doesn't say anything about strapless not being allowed. Another girl with a figure got dress coded for wearing a skirt that was shorter than fingertip-length, even though the dress code doesn't say anything about fingertip-length, it just says "modest". Meanwhile my daughter with stick legs and no figure yet is running around in shorts that are definitely shorter than fingertip-length, and nobody says a word. (If they did say a word, I would be there in the office, telling them that I think my daughter's shorts are modest -- which I do.)[/quote]

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