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Dress Codes in Schools

By: Kerri McDonagh, Danielle Doolittle, Erica Braithwaite, Olivia Eggleston

History of Dress Codes

  • The First Amendment
  • Tinker vs. DesMoines
  • "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech at the school house gate."
  • This is first school dress code rule established by the Supreme Court.

  • Gardner vs. Cumberland School Committee (1972)
  • Clear and present danger in schools

THE END!

Did you know?

  • In 1996 Clinton advocated for dress codes in schools in order to reduce violence.

"I challenge all our schools to teach character education, to teach good values and good citizenship. And if it means that teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms."

-President Bill Clinton

Can attire be distracting in the classroom?

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  • Putting academics before fashion
  • "Students from schools that have uniforms also tend to view the climate or their school in a more positive way," according to the Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management.

  • Kids are worried about personal safety have difficulty concentrating in schools.
  • Wearing baggy clothes to cover up weapons

Continued...

  • Forbidding students from wearing certain colors and symbols prevents students from advertising gang membership.

  • School attendance is directly related to achievement.

  • Wearing clothes appropriate for schools climate

Did you know?

In 2012, a Pennsylvania high school prohibited clothing with holes or tears because some students were ripping large holes in their pants and exposing their genitals.

In Texas a kindergartener was suspended for having long hair. When the parents refused to cut their son's hair, the student wasn't allowed in the classroom and did his work in the hallway

Did you know?

  • In 2009-2010, 57% of public school principals reported that their schools enforced some type of dress code.

Game Time!

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"I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different."

-Eric Cantona

Who would you like to dress?

Did you know?

A kindergartener in Oklahoma, was asked to turn his University of Michigan T-shirt inside-out. The dress code for Oklahoma City Public Schools allows students to wear only Oklahoma college apparel.

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