Essay On Dress Code

Enabled and Enforced Bigotry in Education: Dress Code Policies in Today’s Schools
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” once said minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. in the Letter from the Birmingham Jail. Where to start with inequality is anywhere and everywhere -- no one in the world is permitted to stand idly by while others are persecuted. And for this essay, it all starts in our education system. In this society, the standardization of public systems has stomped our creativity and given way to unopposed prejudice. Our world, our innovation, starts with our students, and pushing them into conformity is no way to begin the stages of adolescence, of which soul searching is a hallmark. In no conceivable way does

As Ellen Kate writes, “Dress code referrals are especially time-consuming because they often involve students changing clothes or waiting for parents to bring them new clothes. It can sometimes take more than two hours for a parent to leave work, stop by their house, grab clothes, and bring them to school. This is valuable class time that is lost for the student.” When you want less time and effort wasted in a school, you cannot patch on more rules and codes that waste the time of school staff who must enforce it. It also puts strain on the relations between teachers and students, who become more at odds the more frivolous codes are put in place. This can make kids act out and teachers become frustrated because of the situation both parties are put in. This just adds up to more disciplinary action needing to be

For evidence, here is this statement in an article written by Lisa Wade, who has a PhD in Sociology, “And the clothes are just one part of the issue. African American girls have been punished for wearing their hair naturally or in braids. Two students at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, located in Massachusetts, were required to serve detention and kicked off of their sports team for wearing braided hair because it was ‘unnatural.’” Several parts of many dress codes target racial minorities. The banning of ethnic hair is abhorrent. It is ridiculous. Usage of words like “urban” and “ghetto” are just as awful, a clear code for “stereotypical black.” One simply cannot list articles of clothing that a majority of racial minorities wear and then claim that it is not racist, especially when it is coupled with weak attempts to demonize the clothing by alleging it is somehow