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    money in the long run, prepare students for their futures in the professional world, and lead many young men and women to build a greater respect for each other. That new rule could please an immense number of people, but it would also agitate an excessive number of people. Some of the matters…

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    Dress Codes are way too strict! Although many schools have strict dress codes, dress codes should be banned from public schools. Clothing as a primary mean of expressing, the pressure of dress codes, and pointing mostly towards girls. The concern of dress code at public and private schools is questioning government as schools. (“What’s Fair and Unfair about School Dress Codes”). The first school dress code law was established in 1969 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, known as “Tinker vs. Des…

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    Students should not be limited to what they can wear. Everyone has the right to wear what they want anywhere else they go and it should be the same at schools. Students should not have a strict dress code because it does not affect their learning potential, it prevents students from expressing themselves and dress codes are gender bias and the schools should be teaching respect. According to webster, “A dress code is a set of rules, usually written and posted, specifying the required manner…

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    years, dress code policies in public schools have been labeled as sexist and disrespectful due to their unfair treatment of females. At Cleveland Heights High School, the administration claims that the dress code “strengthens the learning environment for classroom” and “prevents disruption of the educational process.” These statements contradict our school’s policy to pull students who violate the dress code out of class and to send them home. Students across the country are pushing for dress…

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    There are many negative and positive effects a school dress code can have. Dress codes are in place for a reason. A few dress codes are a little too strict. Others may be a little too loose. A friend of mine when we were in high school decided to get a nose ring nothing like the bull nose ring that goes in a big loop just something small that went on the side of the nose that looked like a tiny blue dot. She was then later speaking with our school principal about how she can’t be wearing that.…

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    Many schools have dress codes for students. Each year schools provide students with a handbook. In the handbook there is a section named “dress code”. Many students fail to bide by the dress code. Dress codes are not enforced just to make the students mad but it is enforced to protect each and every student in the school building. Dress codes should and should not be required in schools because some clothes are too revealing, students have an advantage of hiding weapons in hats or coats, but…

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    We Need Dress Codes An Argumentative Essay By: Jenna M. Jennings Why do we go to school? To LEARN! Why do we wear clothes? To be a reasonable person that's not nude! Come on guys, WE NEED DRESS CODES! We need dress codes because without them, school can have a negative effect on students all because of clothes. This doesn't have to be hard, but somehow in the end, it is. We all want a great student environment, but we can't do that without safety. Dress codes were not created to bring down a…

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    Dress Code Research Paper

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    Is Dress Code Taking Away Children’s Education? Imagine being 13 years old and your school is restricting you from wearing the clothes you want. If you wear a little bit of too short or shorts or a graphic t-shirt, the school will dress code you and you would have to change into some old P.E. shorts or call home to have new clothes brought to you. When schools have a strict dress code, children are not allowed to express themselves and show who they are at school. Schools should not have a…

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    Dress codes, everything a student hates. Dress codes are made by schools so students are not “distracted” by what other students wear. Although kids are dressing the way they want to as a form of self-expression, some people feel that codes are needed. For example, it can be offensive to some people. ”Consider the case of Elliot Chambers, the Minnesota student who was told that he couldn't wear a shirt with the message "Straight Pride." The school claimed that the shirt offended some students…

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    Dress Codes In Schools

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    we started school we’ve had to deal with dress code. However, schools have different rules such as whether you have to wear uniforms or how short your skirts can be. My elementary school required us to wear uniforms and as the years went on the dress code got progressively stricter. When I moved on to high school it wasn’t much better. They would constantly send people to the office to get a change of clothes, but by doing this they also removed students from their classes, making them fall…

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