How Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country

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4. Since when is a prom a "learning environment"?

Personally, I wonder what purpose a junior high school prom serves at all, in terms of education. Just another social add-on, having more to do with status, peer pressure, and tradition than anything to do with education.

And why a "girls only assembly" but not a similar assembly for boys? And why no focus on teaching boys not to be distracted? That would seem to be a much more useful lesson. In effect the school is telling boys, "We know you can't control yourselves, we know basically you're just a bunch of dumb animals, so our solution is to restrict what the girls can do, so as not to be an inconvenience to you." Way to teach males how women and girls need to amend their behaviors so as to solve male problems!

And would you be all right with boys being prohibited from wearing tight pants? You know, to keep girls from being distracted?