Our Newest Dress Code and It's Flaws
Dress Code
When I walk into Classic City High School every day, I see each individual and what they’re wearing. My peers come in different sizes, sexes, and race, and all of them wearing their own style of clothing. Whether it be fashionable or unfashionable to spectator’s eyes is not their concern. Although I do agree with many of your dress code rules, I also think you are going a little overboard with the whole process. Now, we must remember we are working with individuals in the most confusing stage of their lives, so let’s not be judgmental.
I know the school board has the best intentions for the students and their futures. I also know the school board is doing this to improve the numbers of graduates each year, and to get Athens, Georgia back to the level of intelligence at which it needs to be. I personally feel this will cause more of a dilemma than a solution. It may help the classroom environment, but what about the attendance, one of the main problems in the Athens school system?
The reason I am so upset about this whole matter is because I am an artist. Every day I strive to be different or unique; from my clothes, hair, and shoes, to my personality. Once you start telling a person how to do something, especially on this kind of matter, they tend to react in the worse kinds of ways. I don’t want to see my peers drop out because they couldn’t wear what they wanted. You can’t forget about the teenage mind; every teenager is still trying to find or prove them selves. We must take every variable involved in this whole ordeal and examine it, or many will be left behind or drop out.
Must we be so strict on the whole matter; the school board is correct on many of the points they hit, but why must we go into all of the minute details? For instance, “Coats and sweaters are encouraged as appropriate for the weather,” or “Flip-flops, shower shoes, bedroom/house slippers, platform shoes, spiked and footwear with heel and/or toe taps are not permitted”. What’s wrong with a flip flop’s or wearing your jacket inside on a warm day? These new school board rules are not in educational interest but of their own desire to dictate taste.
When I walk into Classic City High School every day, I see each individual and what they’re wearing. My peers come in different sizes, sexes, and race, and all of them wearing their own style of clothing. Whether it be fashionable or unfashionable to spectator’s eyes is not their concern. Although I do agree with many of your dress code rules, I also think you are going a little overboard with the whole process. Now, we must remember we are working with individuals in the most confusing stage of their lives, so let’s not be judgmental.
I know the school board has the best intentions for the students and their futures. I also know the school board is doing this to improve the numbers of graduates each year, and to get Athens, Georgia back to the level of intelligence at which it needs to be. I personally feel this will cause more of a dilemma than a solution. It may help the classroom environment, but what about the attendance, one of the main problems in the Athens school system?
The reason I am so upset about this whole matter is because I am an artist. Every day I strive to be different or unique; from my clothes, hair, and shoes, to my personality. Once you start telling a person how to do something, especially on this kind of matter, they tend to react in the worse kinds of ways. I don’t want to see my peers drop out because they couldn’t wear what they wanted. You can’t forget about the teenage mind; every teenager is still trying to find or prove them selves. We must take every variable involved in this whole ordeal and examine it, or many will be left behind or drop out.
Must we be so strict on the whole matter; the school board is correct on many of the points they hit, but why must we go into all of the minute details? For instance, “Coats and sweaters are encouraged as appropriate for the weather,” or “Flip-flops, shower shoes, bedroom/house slippers, platform shoes, spiked and footwear with heel and/or toe taps are not permitted”. What’s wrong with a flip flop’s or wearing your jacket inside on a warm day? These new school board rules are not in educational interest but of their own desire to dictate taste.
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