Should There Be Dress Codes In Junior High And High Schools?
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Should There Be Dress Codes In Junior High And High Schools?
Introduction
The dress code for junior and high schools has been a hot debate over the years. It has sought to address various issues and have resulted in different levels of controversy. For instance, in the early 1970s boys with long hair sometimes got attracted to their classmates. Resultantly, schools required young men to cut their hair short. Moreover, at the beginning of the 1990s several organizations and parents pushed for a dress code as a strategy to curb gang-related violence (Valdez, 2015). Over the years, the desire to create a professional school environment and reduce struggle over designer clothes made uniforms and dress codes become a familiar topic. However, identical strategies are more restrictive than dress code policies. Dress codes are strict as in the case of schools in California and Napa. For instance, schools in this areas required students to put on solid colors and logos or banned images on clothes. The primary objective of this argumentative essay is to provide adequate evidence that there should be dress codes in both junior and high schools.
Claim 1: dress code may increase student safety and reduce crime. Each year several schools adopt a certain form of dress code. Although some challenges are emerging on the constitutionality, court’s rulings have supported dress codes that are implemented properly and can prove to be rationally consistent with a legitimate purpose (Valdez, 2015). Moreover, the safety of students appears to be the primary concern of judgments in courts. The public schools responsibility is to have an orderly and safe environment conducive to learning. Estimates by the National School Board Association shows that approximately