Why Do North Hopkins Feel The Need To Enforce Their Strict Dress Codes

Freedom of expression is one of our most fundamental human rights. So why does North Hopkins feel the need to enforce their strict dress code, which is directed towards females at North? I have had some run-ins with the dress code at North Hopkins, and the “violations of dress code” have never been justified. This is my problem, the fact that female students at North are specifically targeted. The staff at North Hopkins needs to be fair when dress coding students. They also need to stop targeting and sexualizing teenage girls with the dress code. Growing up school dress code has taught females from a young age that they should cover their bodies, and that their bodies are “distracting” to not only their classmates, but to society in general.

Teenage boys should not be looking at their female peers in that way. I've heard things along the lines of , “it's not my fault she wore that shirt”, or “it's her problem that she chose to wear jeans with holes on her thighs, not mine”. North Hopkins needs to teach the boys to respect their female classmates, instead of telling females that it's their job to make sure that their male classmates aren't distracted by their clothing choices and their bodies. According to the American civil liberties union, “School dress codes, for example, may reflect the sexist and harmful view that girls' bodies are inherently vulgar or inappropriate, that boys will be “distracted” by girls' bodies, and that girls' dress and appearance require more regulation than that of

Most of them fail to realize that things have changed since they were younger, and there are “new trends”, and new clothing styles nowadays. They also fail to realize that the dress code targets young women by not only sexualizing their bodies, but calling them a distraction and making them uncomfortable with their own bodies. It's already hard enough for teenage girls to feel comfortable in their bodies. Grown adults saying these harsh things to them about their clothing choice is the last thing they