To whom it may concern, the dress code policy needs to be changed. It sexualizes children as young as elementary. In middle and high school it only gets harder as some get taller. For lengthy skinny girls their arms are typically longer therefore meaning that it is harder to find shorts and/or skirts that fit the dresscode length. The dress code sexualizes young girls as the grow up to become insecure about their body. On a source it states that, “commonly banned clothing items include halter or strapless tops, “skirts or shorts shorter than mid thigh,” and “yoga pants or any type of skin tight attire.”” (Pendharkar 2022) This mindset lets young girls’ think that their body is something to be ashamed of since they are the ones that need to cover up instead of saying that the boys’ need to learn self control. …show more content…
It’s the girls that are taken out of class to change their clothes.” (Wang 2017) Boys need to be taught self control. Removing the dresscode won’t impact the boys’ thoughts. The dresscode was set for boys’ and teachers that kept sexualizing little girls from the ages of elementary and all the way through highschool. Gender equality means to be fair to each gender so that there is no enequality. With a dress code in the school we don’t have gender equality because its the girls that are being targeted. There are at least two rules in the dress code that revolve around