Why do some Schools have Unfair Dress-Codes?

                          
My essay explores the reasons and the unfairness of schools having tough dress-codes on students, even putting a mandatory uniforms, for reasons not just. these 5 articles and their articles take their side on the fairness, or, unfairness of the reasons for why some schools ought to have extreme dress-codes.

Dianne Gereluk, an author, states that there is no good reason to dress codes and uniforms, and how even a muslim girl in a British school was wearing a Hijab and that the teachers did not allow it in school. Religious and symbolic is being widely banned and rejected around the world. Dianne Gereluk of the University of Calgary is really strong on this subject and expresses that teachers and principals can only go to a certain extent in their school dress regulations. She concludes that schools can only go so far in regulating their dress codes                                                         

Fred Lunenburg focuses mainly on how far schools can regulate their dress codes, also taking in the factor of the constitutional freedom that states the different ways schools can regulate thir students’ dress codes and their extent of regulation on students. This author does not have any opinion on his topic, rather he seems to explain the different ways and reason schools can regulate their students, like safety reasons, gang related dress, immodest clothing, etc. ho continues to conclude that the first amendment constitutional freedoms places limits on school officials, however within reasonable dress regulations.

Dianne Gereluk, who has written even a book on symbolic and religious clothing around the world, investigates again on the heavy handedness of some schools, particularly in France, over religious and symbolic dress. France is taking a controversial stand on this, making all the schools within its boundaries to regulate that all ostentatious religious symbols in schools. In the United States, schools focus more on political symbols, rather than religious. To what extent can schools go to in regulating their uniform policies and dress codes? If clothing is significant in expressing students’ identity, are schools obliged to the students’ wish? Do we not take in the fact that there are other important values that are linked to uniform policies themselves? Symbolic clothing raises many questions and dilemmas to schools themselves

Amy Mitchell Wilson has a lot to say about how setting special dress codes could be for safety reasons, if there is too much gang violence in a school, then setting mandatory dress codes may yield positive results. Wilson has done research to find out that there is a shocking decline of good academic achievement with a crisis of violence.   The article also states that uniforms and dress codes may have some racial bias because they often focus on the clothing associated with African- American gangs, and they ignore others like white-supremacist gangs. She goes through the constitution and concludes that the uniform policy is one of the good ways to get rid of gang violence.

Keith King explains the reasons for why it is better for elementary schools to have a mandated school uniform rule. the reason is mainly because of gang violence and how if local gang members go to a school with a uniform policy, they will be easily recognized and taken out of the school. He also explains how schools with less violence help children perform better in an academic sense. this article is fairly short (only one page with columns), but he writes with effect, stating how the uniform policy can reduce gang violence, but says that his opinion on uniforms is otherwise.


While some of the authors in this research paper believe that we should have dress codes and uniform policies, I think that dress codes are obviously important so that a kid does not just run around the school naked, but taking away their sense of style and imagination by attempting a uniform policy is absurd. the reasons for uniform policy are not very supported, and ultimately the uniforms cost more for schools to buy. I am against the uniform policy for a number of reasons, but dress codes are essential for a dignified school


References (first to last)
                                                                                                                                                                              Dianne Gereluk, The Philosophy of Education Yearbook , December 1, 2006                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Fred C. Lunenburg, FOCUS on Colleges, Universities, and Schools, Volume 5, December 1, 2011

Dianne Gereluk, School of Education, Roehampton University, Journal of Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Amy Mitchell Wilson, Educational Research Complete, Spring 1998, November 1, 2007

Keith A. King, Journal of School Health, January 1, 1998