Posted on 01/29/2015 2:54:42 PM PST by Kaslin
When 16-year-old Gabi Finlayson went to Paris with her mother and brother in December, she only bought one thing: a light pink dress with lace overlay that fell just below the knee. She planned to wear it to an upcoming high school dance. “I loved it,” she tells Yahoo Parenting. “It reminded me of Audrey Hepburn. It seemed like a classic dress I could wear forever.”
So on Saturday night, the Utah high school junior couldn’t wait to show up at the dance. “Being a 16-year-old girl, it’s hard to find something that makes you feel pretty and when you do, you want to share it,” she says. But instead of feeling like the belle of the ball, Finlayson ended up feeling shamed and embarrassed, she says, when she was asked to cover up her bare shoulders.
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Now it’s the MAJORITY doing the laying down!
Have you met some of today’s parents? They have no more clue about appropriate attire for school than a goat does.
Parents should give common sense input into school dress codes and speak up if the code is just plain impractical. For example forbidding short sleeved shirts. But yeah schools, any school have the right to establish codes of conduct which includes how a student may dress while on campus, provided such code does not violate a student’s right.
Irrelevant. They are still the parents, the school is not.
But yeah schools, any school have the right to establish codes of conduct which includes how a student may dress while on campus, provided such code does not violate a student’s right.
Not public schools.
You are wrong and there have been court decisions that explain why you are wrong. Perhaps you should become familiar with the term “In Loco Parentis”. Which though not the force it once was in education has not been scuttled entirely. It still applies to dress codes.
Nutrition standards have nothing to do with school discipline and maintaining an orderly environment conducive to education. So you are comparing apples and oranges. By the way dress standards are usually set at the local level by people who have been elected by local people. Those people are usually given a chance to input their opinion on the process. The same does not apply to the Federal school meals programs.
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