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Jan 23, 2023 · 1:05. Students, advocates, researchers and now a congressional watchdog agency are urging public schools to rethink their dress codes, which some argue are sexist, racist and classist, foster a...
- Kayla Jimenez
- National Correspondent
Dec 27, 2022 · Some schools even require students to wear uniforms. Most often, though, dress codes ban clothes that the district considers revealing, distracting, controversial, or pose a safety threat to students.
- Staff Writer
In 2021, a group of about 50 students in Georgia protested their middle school’s dress code for being discriminatory against BIPOC girls by wearing t-shirts every Friday emblazoned with the words “sexist,” “racist,” and “classist.”
May 18, 2023 · School uniforms deter crime and increase student safety. In Long Beach, California, after two years of a district-wide K-8 mandatory uniform policy, reports of assault and battery in the district’s schools decreased by 34%, assault with a deadly weapon dropped by 50%, fighting incidents went down by 51%, sex offenses were cut by 74%, robbery ...
By removing outward indicators of wealth or social status, school uniforms aim to create a level playing field among students and reduce the potential for distractions or divisions. Significant legal cases have also influenced the debate surrounding school uniforms in the United States. One notable case is Tinker v.
Sep 13, 2018 · Students are waging war on sexist and racist school dress codes — and they’re winning. Traditional dress codes punish marginalized students disproportionately, but this anti-racist,...
Feb 21, 2024 · Asking students to change how they wear their hair for the sake of uniformity is a proxy for racism, said U.S. Rep Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat who has championed the CROWN Act.
