SUMMARY:
This news, written by Jessica Schladebeck and
publishes last Saturday six of May, is about a Connecticut high school, which
recently attempt to crack down on dress code violations prompting 150
suspensions in one day.
The students were called by the loudspeaker and
immediately suspended for the following day. The reason was that students wore
forbidden colors and sweatshirts with hoods. They even suspended a student,
Allyanna Jones, who had never got into trouble. This girl offered to take off
her sweatshirt and get cold before being suspended but didn't give her the
opportunity.
As the dress code of the institute says: “they
calls for boys to wear black or green shirts tucked into a pair of belted
pants. Female students are required to wear shorts, dresses, and pants in navy,
blue, black, gray or khaki.” The institute justifies the dress rules dictating
that students are more focused on studying, it is more difficult to hide
weapons and reduce the cost of clothing worn in school. Later the district
erased the suspensions.
Different entities have commented on this
event. Also the critics of the district contributed their opinion and
criticized the extreme discipline to the cultural insensitivity between the
members of the staff.
MY OPINION:
I have
chosen this news because the title caught my attention. I wanted to check if
the students had been suspended because of bad behavior or how they were
dressed.
From my
point of view, Although the institute has justified that they demand a certain
way of dressing so that the students focus more on the studies and there are
less problems, I consider that each one is free to dress as it wants. I don't
think that they avoid everything they have said that is avoided by imposing how
you should be dressed. If it works, I think there are other ways to avoid all
that they have justified.
In
addition, one could say that the right of free expression is violated because
they can not express their style and their way of being.
WORDS I DIDN'T KNOW.
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