Dress codes are very beneficial for high schools and they are needed, however, how far can school administration go before students reach their limit? Being in high school myself just over a year ago, I can say that I did hear plenty of complaints about dress codes. However, the high school I went to had the usual limits; no short-shorts, no tank tops, no stomach showing. This is just a normal dress code and it is something that students can usually handle and understand without feeling like their rights have been pushed. There were hardly any outbursts or protests from the students about dress codes that I attended school with. The same cannot be said about a high school in North Dakota. In an article I read titled, "Yoga Pants to Distracting for Boys? A N.D. School Cracks Down on Girls." I found this article browsing through The Christian Science Monitor webpage and it caught my attention. I was immediately interested to read about it because school dress codes have always been controversial, but I thought that banning yoga pants was pushing the limits of female students.
The principal of the high school held an after school assembly for all of the females in the school. During the assembly he played video clips from the movie Pretty Woman. Having seen this movie myself and knowing that it is rated R, I was immediately surprised that the principal was even allowed to play that movie in a school setting. The point he was trying to make through the use of the videos was that woman present themselves with how they dress and that yoga pants and tight pants need to be covered. Obviously, very few of the female students responded well to this. The female students protested and said that it was bias that school districts put limits on girls instead of teaching the boys that girls are not sexual objects.
I believe that the principals reasoning for the ban on yoga pants is fallacious. It was fallacious reasoning that the principal handled the female students in the manner that he did. The principals focus was on the males of the school. He didn't show any benefits for the females, or any sign that he was also going to talk to the male students about respect for females. Although yoga pants can be tight, they are still covering the body, and females should be able to wear them to school without worrying about how it is going to affect males test scores.
As a boy, #Iammorethanapairofoggelingeyes!
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