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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 ...
For months, I’d been hearing how she and her female friends felt vulnerable to the whims of school staff inspecting and commenting on their clothing and bodies as they enforced the dress code ...
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 ...
A 2022 report from the Government Accountability Office found that school dress codes more frequently restrict clothing ...
In 2016, guardians of three girls attending Charter filed a lawsuit against the school claiming that its dress code prohibiting female students from wearing shorts or pants, was discrimination.
Some female students voiced their frustration to the school board over how they say they feel they’re being objectified by the new dress code. “Now I feel ashamed of my home,” said Cora ...
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 ...