While there should be a dress code to a certain extent, the one at Greenbrier High School is outdated and unequally executed. More often than not, someone gets dress coded because of how they look in something while someone who is built different gets away with breaking code. Not to mention, finding decent clothing that looks good without holes, etc is hard these days especially when one is on a budget. Let’s fight to make to not only make the Greenbrier High School’s dress-code equal but updated too. Not to mention, getting dresscoded makes students feel shame and wrong. It is disruptive to their learning. Rather than focusing on how distracting something is, we need to teach people to stop sexualizing young bodies. It’s time for change!

Here is one of my experiences. As I walked in the school everything was going great I was hanging with my friends and laughing, then all of a sudden the vice principal walks up to me and tried to dress code me when my stomach wasn’t even showing. Then the other vice principal jumped in and told me I was also being dress coded for the hole in my jeans because it was too distracting. This made the rest of my day go bad because it started my morning off with a panic attack from being jumped at by two principals at once. But other girls got to come in the school with their whole stomach showing. Just because I was built with a bigger butt and thighs and boobs means that I will get dress coded but not them? That is not fair and the dress code needs to be updated and changed.  Not to mention girls can’t even wear shorts in 100 degree weather because it is quote on quote “too distracting for the boys” and our shoulders are too distracting if we show them. But yet the boys can wear what ever they want and not get dress coded.