School Dress Code Individuality In Schools

School Dress codes do not allow students to completely express their individuality. Schools want students to be able to think for themselves and create a sense of who they are, but it is not easy when they are forced to abide by rules that take away from from that. It should be a place of expressing ourselves freely in a learning environment without having to worry about what we wear as an interfering issue. The fact that the school system cares more about the student dress code than their education is an issue in itself. Schools should promote dress code individuality because of religious aspects, mental health, and human experience.
To begin with, some school dress codes do not allow freedom of religious wear. According to one article,” Both

The human experience is about having a conscious mind and when students are being forced to be who they are not the idea schools have about them thinking for themselves is not going to happen as well as students who have the opportunity to think for themselves. One article reads,” Mill touches on the idea that humans require trial and error to succeed and individuality provides ‘experiments of living’”(Source B). The text says that as humans we need to figure out problems and situations by doing it on our own and seeing what works and what does not. As a student, we can experiment with something as small as choosing our own clothes to wear. The writer also says,”By ridding these people of self-expression, they are no longer receiving the experience that comes with dressing the way they feel expresses themselves and removes an avenue of individuality”(Source B). The human experience is made by being able to dress freely without someone taking away those given rights. Dressing to the way we feel gives us the chance to express ourselves like how schools want us to when we grow up, but it has to start somewhere. Students should be able to have the experiences everyone else does, if not completely, then starting with something small such as

Being able to choose what to wear is a right students are allowed to have, but schools are constantly trying to change that. Religious wear is not being accepted as part of the dress code causing problems between the school and the student whose identity is being taken away from them along with the boy who could not stand trying to be like everyone and ended his own life. Down to the basic right as a human to experience life just as anyone else has. There are many more reason as to why schools should allow students to dress how they want to, but these three reasons provide all of the points needed. Overall, schools should get rid of the dress codes enforced and allow the students to explore their