From Bust Magazine: http://www.bust.com/slut-shaming-now-in-student-dress-codes.html
by: Sholeh Hajmiragha
May 09, 2013
Hold on to your yoga pants!
There are dress codes that deal with the “curvature” of students’ breasts? Or the definition of their “backsides?” We know slut-shaming is an epidemic, but this is shocking.
Last month in New Jersey, Readington Middle School banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to an eighth grade dance, explaining that strapless dresses “distract boys.” Faced with immediate protest and backlash from parents and students, Readington decided to compromisby allowing girls to wear single-strap or see-through-strap dresses.
This incident is just one of many across the United States where girls are slut-shamed through their schools’ dress codes. Girls, and not boys, are being told what not to wear because school officials and adults don’t want them to look “inappropriate” or “distracting.”
A recent ThinkProgress article highlights five recent examples of school dress-codes that restrict clothing choices for young women and girls:
1. A middle school in California banned tight pants, leggings, and yoga pants. Say it ain’t so!
Last month, Kenilworth Junior High School in northern California told girls to stop wearing pants that are “too tight” because it “distracts the boys.” All female students were rounded up for a mandatory assembly where they were told by school officials that they were no longer allowed to wear leggings, yoga pants, or tight-fitting pants. Later, the assistant principal played the distraction card in a voicemail to parents: “The guiding principle in all dress codes is that the manner in which students’ dress does not become a distraction in the learning environment.”
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