The dress code policy that is presented for the Clarke County School District is almost like cruel and unusual punishment. School is a place where kids spend basically their entire childhood life and they deserve the freedom to express themselves throughout their daily life. When else are they going to do it? After school at home with people who already know all about them? Not only that but despite the guidelines that would provide safety, the rest of it is complete nonsense and would not make anything better at all. People are going to continue to drop out, and at a faster rate, it will make kids absolutely loath school.
School is a place where students spend eight hours of their day, 5 days a week, just about every week from the time they are four or five. They must express themselves or else it will force them to be stripped of their identity, causing more introverted emotions which would cause more depression, hate for society, especially hate for a school, and worst of all hate for people. Their identity is one of the only things they have to look forward to in life, and it provides their comfort to feel socially expectable to other people and most importantly feel socially expectable to them. When all the kids are wearing uniforms, they'll all be robots by the end of their lives.
Disruption in the classroom is absolutely not caused by the appearances people present. If anything, disruption is carried out by the attitude of the person wearing the offensive clothing which often has nothing to do with the disruption in the class room. It has more to do with a student refusing to pay attention or not talk to others during assignments and disrupting others through speech. High school students are well aware of offensive language, drugs, and most especially anything sexual, and it is all so apart of their life already. It’s not something that dazzles and amazes their personality while trying to write a paper, they have accepted these ideas already. They're young adults preparing for life, they know what they are doing, not a subjectible infant influenced by the simplest evil deed. I can wear something that expresses violence or gore and have my attitude back it up completely being one of the nicest and least distracting people you might ever meet unless your ignorant side walker sneering at me for having a little fun with my looks while I'm not at school. If anything, school is THE place to express yourself for it is wear you meet most of your companions and is far less distracting than representation of clothing actually OUTSIDE of school. Today is a different era, our culture deals and responds to things completely different from the parent’s or School districts culture in high school. Adults don’t feel comfortable dressing in a way that they feel inappropriate, so obviously students don’t feel comfortable dressing in a way they feel is inappropriate for their day and their age.
A dress code should only be enforced for safety measures not a deprivation of ones personality. A dress code wouldn’t help anything, do you honestly expect kids to behave better and have a better school environment? It will make them drop out the second they are able to so they can find a better alternative that represents them more. You’re trying to prepare these kids for their life, not your life, or their parents life, its theirs, and they deserve their rights, similar to freedom of speech, to dress they way they feel appropriate amongst others. Especially students at Classic City High School who come to the school because they want to be able to express themselves more freely and learn in an environment that excepts them for who they are and what they are trying to do.
Besides, we’re too busy trying to finish high school to worry about what the back of someone’s shirt says.
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