Throughout this first month of school, in English, we’ve read a number of short essays dealing with very controversial issues. A few of these examples are how some people are starting to change their names back to the originals, or how married (involved) men shouldn’t be looking at pornography, or how dress codes are affecting students learning, and even women’s struggle with their self image due to movies, magazines, and advertisements. People have very strong opinions for these issues. I am one of these people when it comes to dress codes.There should not be dress codes in school because it stops people from expressing their own individuality. The schools that have dress codes, which tend to be private schools, usually have them because they want everyone to look the same, or don’t want to have “cliques,” or simply just like them. A lot of the institutions feel that this can also reduce the trouble students get in or trouble the school might have with them.All of these reasons that they have are all false. If anything, the dress codes do the exact opposite of what they were intended to do in the first place. With my experience with dress codes (not personally, but a lot of my close friends attended schools with dress codes) I found that the most troubled and most rebellious students seemed to have come from a school that had a dress code. What everyone needs to understand is that young kids and teenagers are very rebellious as it is. So if they are put in a strict situation like this one, they will do whatever is necessary to do the opposite. The idea of having everyone dress the same works to some extent, but students will do anything to get out of looking like everyone else. The other idea of not wanting “cliques” or little groups of friends in their schools is impossible to solve; especially with dress codes. No matter what type of school you are in or where it is, there...
