Dress Codes

Clothing is a very important aspect of freedom of speech. What people ware expresses who they are very much. However false perceptions of people can also form by they way people dress, and I think that is ware school are wrong. A school claims they want to conserve their students and keep them focused by making them ware certain items of clothing but in my opinion I think that they are afraid of how their school is being perceived. Controlling what people ware in school is controlling their right to express their personality. I have never heard of anyone not being able concentrate in school because of what someone else was wearing. At The School of the Arts we do not have a dress code in the academic setting but we do have a dress codes in some of the art department. For instance the drama students must ware black, and the dancers must ware either black tights and a black leotard for contemporary or a black leotard and pink tights for the ballet students. A lot of people disagree with the dress code in the art departments, the drama students are sick of wearing black every day and the dancers wish that they could ware warm ups over their leotard and tights. Although many people disagree with the dress code, I feel that in this case, there is a valid reason because if you wore warm ups every day in class for ballet, you would not get the best feedback from your teachers because they need to be able to see you whole body in order to correct you to help you improve. However, I think it is very important that there is no dress code for the academics. Having no dress code lets the people express their personality more and it makes the school more diverse and exciting. For example, the video posted on the lab is ridiculous stating that the children are not aloud to ware rainbows but are aloud to ware shirts with confederate flags on them. Dress code is just another way of controlling children as much as they can to shape them into the type of children they think they should be. We should be able to ware what ever we want to express who we are.