In today’s story, one student shares a tale about a middle school teacher who was really strict about the school dress code.

While discussing an Arizona dad who wore a crop top to a board meeting in protest of a school dress code, the panel weighed in on the ethics of telling kids — and girls, specifically — what ...

School dress code policies disproportionately affect girls, LGBTQ+ students and students of color, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released this week. Most school ...

As a male special education teacher and IEP coordinator in a rural Missouri high school, Mike Ryan said he has to walk a “very fine line” discussing attire with female students. Enforcing the ...

“This is for everybody going forward.” Officials at the charter school said it put in place the dress code requiring girls to wear skirts, jumpers or skirt-like shorts known as “skorts ...

Dress codes focus on items worn by girls The GAO report found that 90 percent of school dress codes ban items of clothing typically worn by girls: Tops with spaghetti straps. Tops that reveal ...

That can make girls feel less safe. Hair also is a frequent target of dress codes that hit Black students more harshly than White ones. This is compounded by school disciplinary practices that are ...

Following the revamp of the St. Johns County School District's dress code in 2021, student violations have decreased about 40% year-over-year, but female infractions (77% of the total ...