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YarnAddict

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2. Middle school kids
Sun May 12, 2013, 07:47 AM
May 2013

Fashion is arbitrarily imposed on us by designers and retailers, etc. There is no reason why middle school girls should want to wear strapless dresses, except that that is what "fashion" dictates, and I have no problem with a middle school administration overruling "fashion" in setting standards for acceptable apparel.

You can bet that there probably are restrictions on what boys wear, also, in terms of slogans on t-shirts, or whatever. And if boys were wearing leggings and yoga pants, they would probably also have an assembly to tell them to stop doing so.

School dress codes have nothing to do with "slut-shaming," and everything to do with establishing standards that promote a learning environment.

JMHO.

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