My high school has an overly strict dress code. I understand dress codes are necessary but some are just ridiculous. Anyways, if you notice some people have stickers on the back window their car of two girls one angel and one devil. (picture http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y219/Black_Majik/Angel-Devil003Standing.jpg Well my friend had one of the girls on his shirt and had his shirt taken away by administration. The thing is that it's not on the dress code policy. He was obviously pretty mad about it and he asked the vice principal to write a statement explaining why it is dress code. Vice principal refused. Also, if a student gets dress code and has it taken away by staff and parents cannot be contacted through telephone, the student is not allowed to get their clothes back (which also is not stated in the dress code policy). My question is it okay for them to get away with things like that if it is not stated in the dress code policy?
2006-11-06 13:25:30 · 7 answers · asked by . 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
I honestly see nothing wrong with the girl. She isn't "doing" anything sexual. It is just a girl with big boobs and high heels standing. Might as well ban a living individual girl at school with big boobs and heels. I'm just trying to make a point.
2006-11-06 13:47:41 · update #1
You still haven't answered my question about the last part...
2006-11-06 14:04:15 · update #2
Schools have dress codes for a reason. To keep the learning environment free of lewd, provocative or offensive images like this. Did you not notice that both women's nipples were prominent? I would personally have taken offense with that.
Just wait, uniforms are sweeping the nation's public schools. Hopefully, yours will be next.
2006-11-06 13:53:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The thing that seems most questionable is the actual confiscation of property. The school can require pretty much anything they want for a dress code, but that should amount to sending improperly dressed students home or asking them to leave questionable clothes in the office, where they may reclaim them at the end of the day. Actually taking the student's property when no law (just a school policy) has been broken puts the school on thin ice. Your friend's first action should be to politely (key word there) ask for his shirt back. After that his parents should ask for it--probably a bit less politely. They will certainly want the administrators to be able to explain what gives the school the right to take property that the family has paid for. (If the policy doesn't specifically say there is such a right, the school doesn't have a leg to stand on; even if it does, their position is pretty shaky.)
As to whether they can prohibit something they haven't explicitly stated, yes they can. The policy almost certainly has some umbrella clause that allows them to prohibit anything they deam "inappropriate," and there's no way they could possibly list everything that might conceivably meet that description. While I don't see anything particularly wrong with the picture in question, there are some people who would find it offensive. Even if he gets the shirt back, your friend shouldn't expect to wear it at school again.
2006-11-06 21:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by dmb 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I would say that shirt is pretty suggestive so if there is anything in your dress code that mentions shirts of a suggestive nature or writing on them that is vulgur in anyway then your principal has a right to take it away. I would have to say that short is not appropriate to wear to school when a dress code is in force. You can't specifically state every single little thing in the dress code.
2006-11-06 21:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by hehmommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's immensely childish to claim the school isn't being fair because that specific design isn't explicitly mentioned in a dress code. If you've ever read a school policy (and I have read numerous), you would know that they use vague language to allow professional judgement to take place. The policy probably states something like "offensive, sexual or otherwise inappropriate clothing".
2006-11-06 22:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by Dazcha 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not right because it isn't showing anything that's against any dress code! You have the right to wear something without it being taken away.
2006-11-06 21:44:36 · answer #5 · answered by Jackie 4 real 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say that that design is immensly innapropriate for school...you may think that this is "strict", but in my school you can be suspended for wearing flip-flops!! However, the student should be allowed to recieve his shirt back, in any case.
2006-11-06 21:41:27 · answer #6 · answered by heresto∆1094 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, it is not. it's kinda like saying that a kid's parents ground him with no tv, no computer, no friends. and the kid talks on the phone, and the parents give him an extention on his grounding time, and the kid gets upset. the parents are wrong because they never mentioned that he couldnt talk on the phone during his grounding period
2006-11-06 21:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by angie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋