It’s almost always the girls that are expected to conform in my school. Their clothing is “too revealing”. I simply tell the adult that complains about the violations that if they care so much, they can go ahead and report the student. I have basically stopped wasting my time on the dress code.

Yeah - but they’re complete idiots because even white people don’t have stick straight hair (or want it) and the kids that were “violating” their assbackwards policy were, well, almost ALL the KIDS. Even the white kids were coloring their hair and NOT being held to the same standard. This was SO obviously racist. So…

I recently left teaching after years in multiple schools with strict dress codes. Some things I miss, but I am so thankful I don’t have to have any more long, drawn out conversations with sullen 13-year-olds and their pissed off parents about why sock logos and nail polish colors have resulted in detentions. It’s not…

Reduce visible gaps, huh. By harassing brown skinned, curly headed kids until they all flee the school? Cuz pretty sure no matter what these girls do with their hair, they’re still going to look black.

Yup. I spend half my fucking time enforcing the no hat rule, and I at least understand the reasoning behind that one.

I haven’t seen my natural hair colour since about 1983. Didn’t stop me passing exams and getting a BSc. Rules about hair colour are stupid.

Nitpicky dress codes in general are annoying. I hate enforcing shoe color, tucked in shirts, and things like that. I generally try to avoid doing so, but then during transitions, principals will inevitably come by and criticize my line of kids for not having shirts tucked in, etc. I would never wear a t-shirt or polo…

I didn’t see this mentioned, but I think another issue is that coloring hair was also banned by the policies, but white students who chose to color their hair were not disciplined.

These are teachers/school administrators who likely consider themselves ‘Liberal’ or ‘good people’ who wear pink pussy hats, blatantly trying to ruin these young black girls lives.

Good. From my reading, the only way a girl with kinky/curly hair could stay within the rules would be to relaxers and/or daily straightening. The rules barred braids/locs/twists, and also prohibited hair “thicker” than 2 inches, which I interpreted as no fro/puff styles. They were basically strong arming girls into…

How in the actual hell could anyone have considered this a good policy? As a teacher, there are about 500 other things more important than hair. Of course throwing in some actual racism in your policy is just mind boggling.  

I was a high school student in the Bible Belt during the GHW Bush era. Our dress code had some slightly misogynistic bullshit and racist enforcement, but it was bordering on progressive based on stuff I see now.

“People think hairy armpits and women who burn bras and hate men.”

Yes, the 75-year history of feminist icon Wonder Woman, created by a feminist and star of thousands of feminist storylines, is doomed because the actress playing her in 2017 acknowledged that said feminist character is a feminist.

Well, the creator of WW was sort of “progressive” and that bled over into his work..

Masculinity so fragile

U mad bro?

I’m listening to the song right now and I gotta say - This is good pop music.