I'm with you on this, but what does make it newsworthy is when the dress code is aimed towards covering up girls and protecting boys from female temptresses rather than teaching appropriate dress for the situation. The article makes it seem like they were worried disproportional about girls being too sexy, rather…

What I'm saying is I don't understand why the dress code creators think they are inappropriate if they are peeking out from beneath a tank top. Now an open down the side shirt is another idea all together.

Totally agree. I think the bra strap goes with the tank top thing, not with an open sided shirt (which as you said is not appropriate for males or females)

I am on board with reasonable dress codes that aren't sexist, yet I've never understood the bra strap thing. Girls/women can be wearing perfectly appropriate clothes that still show bra straps.

I see now. I don't know why your school thought that was appropriate, I know it breaks the dress code at my school. I would argue that any dress code needs to be gender equitable and based on what is appropriate for school, not on making sure girls are covered up. So I guess we agree sort of...

I'm not sure how your daughter's personal experience extrapolates to all teens, but I'm glad she had a cool outfit (not being sarcastic, it looks like fun).

I hate those fascist clauses because they are designed to give the administration or any one else an "out." And the courts have upheld these clauses over and over again because apparently students lose all civil rights once they enter school ( or are near a school, or across the street from a school).

Your daughter's school sounds like the exact wrong kind of dress code, both in its intent and in its execution. And in my own experience (just the other day in fact) I've seen people ignore boys' dress code violations and freak out about the girls' violations. It absolutely drives me bonkers, because even though the…

It is, and I try to instill this in my kids (noting that they don't have to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance just because everyone else is). But standing up for something involves consequences. Plus I feel like if she didn't like the dress code she could have worked towards changing it - even if that meant…

How do the rules in this incident teach that boys can't control themselves? I don't see anywhere that adults were saying the dress code was designed to keep boys from being distracted...

I hear what your saying, but left to their own devices teens often make terrible choices and perhaps teaching them what is appropriate in certain places is not appropriate in others is something schools should be doing. That being said, lining girls up in front of class in order to humiliate them is pretty fucked up.

While it sounds like this was enforced in a totally inappropriate manner, the idea that boys and/or girls should be allowed to wear whatever to school is silly and doesn't teach them needed life skills, like say, dressing appropriately for different environments. Honestly, our school spends more time trying to get…

+1 just because I really want season 5 of The League to hit Netflix...

fuck if she were whole she could make $124/hour...what a ripoff. Thanks Obama.

does she swallow?

That's actually the most disturbing part of the story...

You said the students could have followed the rules. The way the rule was enforced tends to suggest the administration doesn't even have a good handle on the rule, therefore how would the students know how to follow it?

But they changed some photos and left others that were dressed in the same style alone (see girl above with jean jacket thing). So it's a mess.

I will not put smother myself with a pillow nor with put anything blurg.

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