Teen’s Collarbones Launch Controversy Over Dress Code
Teen’s Collarbones Launch Controversy Over Dress Code
Stephanie Hughes, a student at Woodford County High School in Kentucky, found herself in the principal’s office on the very first day of school this year. Her crime? Exposing her collarbones.
Stephanie’s mother, Stacie Dunn, arrived at the school to to find “a group of female students standing in the office due to being out of dress code also,” Dunn wrote on Facebook on August 13. “Parents are being called away from their important jobs and students are missing important class time because they are showing their collarbones!" Even after Dunn found her daughter a scarf to wear, she was still sent home. But Dunn’s condemnation of the dress code struck a chord: her original Facebook post has now been shared nearly 50,000 times. (The offending outfit is pictured at left.)
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But women students at Woodford say these requirements are subjectively and sporadically enforced. Maggie Sunseri, a Woodford student, released a 33-minute documentary on YouTube in March focusing on the 10-year-old dress code. In the video, titled, Shame: A Documentary on School Dress Code, Sunseri interviews numerous women students, many of whom had been called out by authority figures for “inappropriate” attire.
“My boyfriend, he wore a pair of his soccer shorts to school,” explains one woman in the documentary. “Soccer shorts come above your knee. And it was completely fine for him. I wore the exact same pair—he gave them to me—I wore the exact same pair and they told me not to wear it again, because they could see my knees. It was like a warning.”
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“It sends the message to boys that it’s all girls’ fault,” remarks another student in the documentary. “It wasn’t [the boys’] fault that they were staring or got distracted. It was the girls’ fault.”
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Guess they will have to revert to the 1900's style at that school.
thinking about sex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It required "crew neck shirts" or button-up style shirts with all but the top button fastened. It had nothing whatever to say about underwear, though. So, I suppose a girl could attend school in a white crew-neck T-shirt a size too small, worn without a bra. She'd be in compliance with the dress code, as written.
I suspect such attire would be far more "distracting" to the boys at that school than the clothing she actually wore. School dress codes are either pretty universally silly or must be so detailed that they take every aspect of clothing into consideration.
I attended high school between 1959 and 1963. In 1963, my school's dress code changed from requiring dresses or skirts for girls to allowing girls to wear "trousers." I saw no change in anyone's deportment due to that change. Both boys and girls continued to be distracted by each other, oddly enough.
BTW, neither boys or girls were allowed to wear "dungarees." I'm not sure most of the kids at that school even knew what "dungarees" might be, really. We did know that blue jeans weren't OK, though. 
My Mom had a fit - I wore a pair of nice slacks I had sewn and they called me into the office to tell me the slacks had to be "store-bought." Mom laid into the administrators. She was already pissed that her four college bound daughters were required to take Home Economics which meant we had one less course credit for our college transcripts.
But the they would not let us wear clothes that we had learned to sew in Home Ec. She wanted them to either drop Home Ec or to require that the boys take it, too. But if we had to take it, she insisted that they allow us to wear clothes that we had learned to make in that school class.
After that, I never got any complaint about my "home made" slacks, even when I wore the ones and friend and I tied dyed in psychedelic colors. With the matching tied dyed tunic, it was totally cool. The teachers just averted their eyes and ignored my clothes. 
As for dungarees, Herb Tarlek nailed it:
