Change; a historically revolutionized word that society has come to reject with great trepidation. Questioning ideologies or everyday standards threaten “the system”; our comfort zone and our dependable companion. We are raised and bred to believe a single set of nurtured beliefs, social expectations and gender based conformities, and we materialize these values as indoctrinated propaganda to live by. No matter how caged we feel by these marginalized ideas, should we always abide by the accepted, filtered system? Without logical reasoning behind rejecting school regulations, the boundary of error to objecting ideas is greater than the potential change in outcome. Students are required to follow a set of constructed rules, similarly to how administration must follow a hierarchical system of guidelines on campus. Implemented based on moral and ethical code, that system sets the basic outline of behavior, values and expectations the school fosters, including dress code. The number of colors we can wear on our button down collared shirts and khaki pants; three. The number of dress down days per year; fifteen to twenty. Relieving ourselves and laundry from the navy and white aura is refreshing. But, even when we hope to freely express our personalities, the system still bears down a policy on females, “No yoga pants, or leggings.”, a staple of comfortability and …show more content…
We concurred with this, “front and back covered and leggings are allowed,” I didn’t overstep my boundaries, but left an an influential teacher with a new educational perspective. A simple email led to me being the first student to change a ruling on dress code in my high school's history. I acted to defy a stereotype, question an outdated systems morality, and to evaluate a society where leggings are a controversial topic in school