Safety is one reason for a dress code however, many educators believe that a dress code also promotes a positive educational environment. Additionally, educators report a decrease in violence, a reduction of fights in schools and improved student achievement when dress codes have been implemented.
Some schools even require students to have the belt line exposed at all times for fear of guns concealed under clothing.
This is one reason school districts use to implement dress codes. The National School Board Association estimates that approximately 135,000 guns are brought to America’s 85,000 public schools each day. Public schools have the responsibility to have safe and orderly schools that maintain an environment conducive to learning. The safety of the children in the schools appears to be the overriding concern considered by the courts. While some challenges have been made concerning their constitutionality, in general court rulings have supported codes that are instituted properly and can be shown to be rationally related to a legitimate pedagogical purpose. Pros of school dress code: helping students dress for safetyĮach year more and more schools adopt some form of dress code. Larry Wilder favors school dress codes because they lead to a safer educational environment that increases students’ ability to learn, increases equality between the sexes and tolerance among ethnic and social groups. Scott Key opposes school dress codes because they teach students that conformity is more important than adaptability and do not prepare young people for the workplace and its emphasis on flexibility and problem-solving. This week Scholars Speak offers a two-for-one offer on school dress codes from faculty of the Fresno Pacific University School of Education: Thanksgiving is coming, which means Christmas sales loom on the horizon.
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