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Teens Collarbones Launch Controversy Over Dress Code
Stephanie Hughes, a student at Woodford County High School in Kentucky, found herself in the principals office on the very first day of school this year. Her crime? Exposing her collarbones.
Stephanies mother, Stacie Dunn, arrived at the school to to find a group of female students standing in the office due to being out of dress code also, Dunn wrote on Facebook on August 13. Parents are being called away from their important jobs and students are missing important class time because they are showing their collarbones!" Even after Dunn found her daughter a scarf to wear, she was still sent home. But Dunns condemnation of the dress code struck a chord: her original Facebook post has now been shared nearly 50,000 times. (The offending outfit is pictured at left.)
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But women students at Woodford say these requirements are subjectively and sporadically enforced. Maggie Sunseri, a Woodford student, released a 33-minute documentary on YouTube in March focusing on the 10-year-old dress code. In the video, titled, Shame: A Documentary on School Dress Code, Sunseri interviews numerous women students, many of whom had been called out by authority figures for inappropriate attire.
My boyfriend, he wore a pair of his soccer shorts to school, explains one woman in the documentary. Soccer shorts come above your knee. And it was completely fine for him. I wore the exact same pairhe gave them to meI wore the exact same pair and they told me not to wear it again, because they could see my knees. It was like a warning.
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It sends the message to boys that its all girls fault, remarks another student in the documentary. It wasnt [the boys] fault that they were staring or got distracted. It was the girls fault.
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http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/08/27/teens-collarbones-launch-controversy-over-dress-code/
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)She intentionally violated the dress code. Nothing or substance in the story.
niyad
(113,344 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Is this dress code reasonable? Yes
What exactly is the issue with the story?
niyad
(113,344 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)The last time someone posted this.
Did YOU?
niyad
(113,344 posts)nice deflection, though.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)The dress code is reasonable. Read it for yourself.
niyad
(113,344 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Guess they will have to revert to the 1900's style at that school.
niyad
(113,344 posts)wear neither mini skirts nor granny dresses. I asked the board if they were high, or just clueless.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Your post is non-sense.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)This dress code in dire need of an update.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)So, no I do not consider this dress code to be reasonable or enforceable.
Takket
(21,577 posts)thinking about sex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(if not obvious)
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)My sister even brought FB pictures showing my niece in the sweater at school last year.
Its a long sleeve sweater that has lace insets in the arms - that was the problem for this teacher. Lace insets on the arms.
The enforcement of the dress code is ridiculously uneven and shaming. The sweater was completely modest. Boys need to be taught how to act appropriately around girls/women - stop shaming the girls!
K&R niyad
niyad
(113,344 posts)and the absurdity of the selective enforcement.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)It required "crew neck shirts" or button-up style shirts with all but the top button fastened. It had nothing whatever to say about underwear, though. So, I suppose a girl could attend school in a white crew-neck T-shirt a size too small, worn without a bra. She'd be in compliance with the dress code, as written.
I suspect such attire would be far more "distracting" to the boys at that school than the clothing she actually wore. School dress codes are either pretty universally silly or must be so detailed that they take every aspect of clothing into consideration.
I attended high school between 1959 and 1963. In 1963, my school's dress code changed from requiring dresses or skirts for girls to allowing girls to wear "trousers." I saw no change in anyone's deportment due to that change. Both boys and girls continued to be distracted by each other, oddly enough.
BTW, neither boys or girls were allowed to wear "dungarees." I'm not sure most of the kids at that school even knew what "dungarees" might be, really. We did know that blue jeans weren't OK, though.
niyad
(113,344 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)My Mom had a fit - I wore a pair of nice slacks I had sewn and they called me into the office to tell me the slacks had to be "store-bought." Mom laid into the administrators. She was already pissed that her four college bound daughters were required to take Home Economics which meant we had one less course credit for our college transcripts.
But the they would not let us wear clothes that we had learned to sew in Home Ec. She wanted them to either drop Home Ec or to require that the boys take it, too. But if we had to take it, she insisted that they allow us to wear clothes that we had learned to make in that school class.
After that, I never got any complaint about my "home made" slacks, even when I wore the ones and friend and I tied dyed in psychedelic colors. With the matching tied dyed tunic, it was totally cool. The teachers just averted their eyes and ignored my clothes.
As for dungarees, Herb Tarlek nailed it:
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)then pretty soon, they'll want to have ankles, too!
And then knees!
And after that -- what?
Voting?
Driving cars?
Well, you can see how it just goes downhill from there
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)How bizarre anyone would find this inappropriate