“Water’s wet.”

As a former teenage boy (now half a lifetime away from those dreadful years; thank God) I can say with authority: it doesn’t matter what the girls wear, the boys are still looking at them (and vice-versa, I’d wager). That’s how teenagers ARE! 

they gotta fund the schools somehow!!

You’d have to be dumb as rock and also living under a rock to not know about this well-documented phenomenon.

glad you find other people’s suffering so fucking funny. peak white ass.

Wow. Paying to dress down? I’d love to be a fly in the wall at the school board/ pta meeting that was approved at.

where you been?

Yeah, the report delves into why these uniforms aren’t actually as economical as people suspect!

Amen! I graduated from High School in South Carolina in the early 80s. From Middle School on, no shorts or tank tops allowed. Most of the classrooms had no air conditioning. We had open windows and we prayed for a breeze. We were told that we couldn’t wear shorts and tanks, ‘cause the boys couldn’t keep their hands to…

At our school, they straight up banned shorts because fashion was leading to shorter and shorter shorts on girls, so to be fair they banned them for both. Ditto for tank tops, anything sleeveless, etc. Was fun in the Texas heat, though girls just resorted to skirts when it got hot.

Adults are supposed to be leaders, not people who nit pick at young women for wearing weather appropriate clothes.

They are obsessed with “spaghetti straps.” I’ve had moms defend the rule by rambling about how spaghetti strap tops are usually tight camisoles that are basically underwear. Um, ok? Why do you care.

I recall way too many jr. high and high school classrooms where girls learned to keep their coats draped over their laps when seated at their desks because male teachers would sit at the front of the room and try to look up students’ skirts. I honestly think the ‘distract the boys’ excuse is just a way to cover for a…

All the dress code ever did was make me hate my teachers and distract me with its draconian stupidity.

I actually believe the real reason is that the adults at the school are deeply uncomfortable seeing the developed bodies of their students. It has nothing to do with the male students, they’re just an excuse. It’s the adult men and women who can’t keep their eyes (and sometimes hands) to themselves and want to blame…

This is a great comment. The school that had an issue with dirty pants was especially out of line. Kids with uniforms only have a certain number of them and not having clean clothes can be a symptom of all kinds of things at home that are not related to respect for being educated or whatever. If a school wants to get…

I’d like to abolish high school (and just send students to community college at 16); but abolishing uniforms is a great place to start.

Being a black girl in the school system (anywhere really) is a double whammy- black and female. But these dress codes are also classsist as hell- if you add low income on top of all that? Forced to wear your sisters old clothes who is shorter than you so maybe the clothes aren’t such a great fit but it’s all you have?…

Final takes: My high school didn’t have a school dress code. My whole class managed to graduate, likely without being too distracted by a classmate’s bare shoulder. Abolish school dress codes TBH.

The whole idea of strapless or sleeveless is ridiculous in the summer time. When its 80-100 degrees, what are people supposed to do? Adults are supposed to be leaders, not people who nit pick at young women for wearing weather appropriate clothes. We all know the real reason - keep boys from looking, which is…