Appearances Are Destructive Mark Mathbane Summary

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Mark Mathbane’s article “ Appearances Are Destructive,” published in the August 26, 1993, issue of New York Times, discusses the best use of school dress codes in order to develop learning and protect the students. Mathbane states that not having school dress code will cause learning distractions among the students, and raise competition among student over materialistic. Moreover, students will commit crimes in order to make money for expensive clothes. The reason students tend to pay more attention to clothes in school because cool clothes give them status and gaining them respect from the peers. In order to respond to the civil libertarians argue that dress codes break the rule of Americans freedom of expression; Mathbane notes that this

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