Starting this school year, some changes to the dress code have surfaced to cause less distractions to the school environment. With this improved policy comes new enforcement. The enforcement involves everyone in the class to stand up and be checked to see if what they are wearing is deemed inappropriate by an administrator.
This process is unethical and causes more of a distraction than the clothes themselves to the school environment.
If the goal of a dress code is to eliminate distractions to the learning environment, what is the logic for disrupting class to see if the students are “too provocative” for the classroom. At that point they’ve taken the whole class’ attention away from the lesson and on to what the people around them are wearing.
Not only is it counterintuitive, it’s clear that this is centered around women’s clothing and body types, therefore creating a biased policy based on certain students.
It’s understandable in any dress code to have a little bias since it can’t be set in stone unless it’s a uniform. But what’s not okay is for the purpose of the policy to be unrecognized when the administration comes in and examines the bodies and clothes of students.
What administration needs to do is stop trying to change what clothes kids wear and focus on informing the staff and students to fix their mindset when it comes to what disrupts the environment.
If staff or students’ minds are unable to focus when there are shoulders or thighs showing, then the problem is within themselves.