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"Whore", "Ho", "Thot".

These negative words are not new to the ears of girls. Labels are given to girls who wear certain clothes or engage in sexual activity - I'm talking about slut-shaming.

It happens everywhere, even in classrooms where girls are ridiculed for the clothes they wear because they 'distract' the boys.

Too often, girls are encountered with their first instances of slut-shaming in school settings. Dress codes are enforced that strips a girl's freedom to fashionably express themselves, and if they do, shame is brought down upon them.

Girls are punished for the thought of even interfering with boys' academic studies (as if a girl's education is not as important) while statistics show, more women are earning degrees than men. People go to school to earn an education to prepare for a successful future, so why is clothing negatively limiting women?

Slut-shaming only pertains to girls. Double standards are shown between men and women, especially through their sexual activity. Men wear whatever they want, have sex as often as they want and they are praised. Women do that and they are scorned. Why is that?

The ideas of double standards are ingrained in us from the start. They are passed on through generations, becoming acceptable ways of thinking. Girls are taught to not think about sex, because that is not 'ladylike.' People don't realize that everyone has normal urges, and that should not be established by gender norms. What doesn't help is that girls start believing this themselves as shown in ways they even interact with each other.

Mean Girls is a perfect example, of how slut-shaming affects girls in a school setting. As said by Tina Fey portrayed as counselor Ms. Norbury in the movie, "You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores." Girls need to realize that to make progressive attempts, they have to start changing the way they view themselves, too.

For everyone, here's some tips to realizing the ways these ideologies need to change:

1. If 'boys will be boys,' then girls will be girls. - Stop the double standards! If girls want to wear a miniskirt, let them rock it. If girls want to have multiple partners, why shouldn't they? Don't shame girls for what boys are praised for.

2. Everyone's education is important. - School settings need to stop reinforcing sexism through the dress codes. We teach girls at a young age to hinder their individuality and sexuality for the sake of a man's education, while statistically, women are the leaders of education right now. Everyone is entitled to earning an education, to prepare for their futures.

3. Lastly, stop slut-shaming! - Stop labeling people with these derogative names. Girls need to stop thinking these are acceptable ways of calling each other. We reinforce slut-shaming, by shaming each other.

Girls we need to stick together to empower each other. We are more than just a label.

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"Whore", "Ho", "Thot". These negative words are not new to the ears of girls. Labels are given to girls who wear certain clothes or engage in sexual activity - I'm talking about slut-shaming. It happens everywhere, even in classrooms where girls are ridiculed for the clothes they wear because they 'distract' the boys.

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Being a teen is hard enough, with annoying acne and totally embarrassing parents and weird bodily changes to worry about. But high school dress codes and overzealous administrators are cracking down on teens for wearing clothing that are considered too scandalous for class. Short skirts have been the most popular offender, but even yoga pants are getting girls sent home from class these days.

One mom got so irked with her daughter's alleged dress code "violations" that she wrote an open letter to her daughter's principal. Dr. Catherine Perlman, a parenting coach, invited him to take her daughter shopping for clothes that are deemed appropriate for school. But like any teen girl, her daughter has picky taste when it comes to her outfits. "She doesn't like anything purple or pink or frilly," Dr. Perlman writes, and "she has very long fingers which seems to make finding shorts that won't get her sent to the principal's office impossible." And her shorts aren't even that short.

The mom shared this photo to Today, after her daughter's principal sent home a second note explaining the dress code infractions. In this case, it's a pair of simple denim shorts that are just barely shorter than the length of her fingertips. She was forced to cover up in a pair of oversized mesh shorts that, in addition to being questionably clean, which her mom says also served to ostracize her in front of her classmates.

Most public school dress codes center around the age-old fingertip rule: that shorts, skirts, and dresses cannot reach higher than the student's fingertips. It's a rule that has little basis in reality because some kids have long limbs or fingers that may be out of proportion with their bodies as they go through their growth spurts, like this teen girl. These dress code rules seem to exist to police teen girls' modesty, with the onus being placed on them to avoid "distracting" the boys in class.

Suspending kids for dress code infractions - or worse, making them wear outlandish coverings to shame them amongst their peers - directly impacts the girls' education, because they're being forced to leave class or deal with the public humiliation. It tells girls that teen boys are so entitled to their bodies that they can't learn if girls wear arbitrarily immodest clothing. And it singles out girls as being responsible for the desires of males students ( and teachers, yuck), as though their bodies are so inherently sexualized for male consumptions and absent of any sexual agency the girls may have. It's totally sexist. Teen girls go to school to obtain an education, but it is upsetting that they are learning the rules of our sexist culture instead. Let's hope more parents speak out about how unfair this is.

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Awesome Mom Claps Back Against Teen Daughter's School Dress Code Infraction

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A group giving voice to students in the St. Paul Public Schools is drawing attention to what it sees as the unequal treatment of girls in the enforcement of school dress codes.

Last week, the school board heeded concerns raised by the SPPS Student Engagement and Advancement Board by amending the district's dress code policy to prohibit principals from targeting a specific gender when setting dress-code rules for their schools.

That is not to say that anything goes.

There still will be restrictions, just not with the explicit references - "bosoms, bottoms and bellies," in the case of an East Side middle school - that the student group said objectifies girls and can hold them to a different standard.

The policy change marked another victory for a student group that last year pushed successfully for new accountability measures for school resource officers, or cops in the schools.

This year, the 13-member board is composed entirely of girls, but its promotion of dress-code changes reflects not just a collective group opinion, but views expressed by students districtwide in surveys and focus group sessions last fall.

"We're not saying there should be no restrictions," Skyler Kuczaboski, a group member, said last week. "We're saying that girls should be allowed to be comfortable at their schools."

In a presentation to the school board in December, the student group said that explanations of dress-code violations to girls often focus on their sexuality, which members said can have an alienating effect.

Kuczaboski added that while certain schools require that undergarments not be exposed, she has seen "boys who sag their pants with underwear that outline their butt cheeks, but they don't get pulled out of class or sent home."

She also spoke of a 6-year-old girl being told to put a sweater over a dress with spaghetti straps even though it was a hot day.

"The issue was her shoulder, I guess?" Kuczaboski said.

Jackie Turner, the district's chief operations officer, said principals or their designees still have authority to set standards for cleanliness and neatness.

She cited as permissible a set of rules at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus School that dictates the minimum lengths of shorts, skirts and dresses, and requires the covering of undergarments, as long as it "applies to whoever wears undergarments, regardless of gender," Turner said.

As for any school using words like "bosoms, bottoms and bellies" in its dress codes, Turner added: "We will work with [them] to modify their language."

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St. Paul schools taking less sexist view of student dress codes

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A group giving voice to students in the St. Paul Public Schools is drawing attention to what it sees as the unequal treatment of girls in the enforcement of school dress codes.

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Two high school students in Montana are taking on their school's dress code, which they believe have an underlying sexist foundation. And, what's more, they have gotten many in their school to join the fight. Josie Espinoza and friend Layne were called out for disobeying the dress code at Belgrade High School on Friday and Josie took to social media to share what happened.

Taking to Instagram to post a screenshot from a Snapchat that has now since disappeared, Josie writes, "Today I was dress coded in front of everyone for my shorts not meeting requirements. I was publicly embarrassed by my teacher in front of the whole class. Then had to be sent home to change because I was a 'distraction.'" You can see the looks that the two girls showed up to class wearing here. Josie chose a short black romper, while Layne wore a pair of printed shorts, black T-shirt, and bomber jacket.

Josie, who's a freshman, further explained to KBZK News, "I was dress coded because my shorts were not long enough and my straps were not one inch." The idea behind the dress code violation is that they were dressed inappropriately, though Layne adds that "I've worn this outfit in front of my grandma, and she's complimented me on it."

As a result of Josie and Layne's call to action, many students protested the dress code on Friday, which resulted in nearly 15 students being sent home before lunchtime, according to KBZK. Speaking with the principal, while he acknowledged to the news station that boys are dress coded less frequently than girls, "That's not the reason and that's not what we're telling our students - that they're being distracting to the boys. What the administration here is saying is they are in violation of the dress code and it needs to be changed."

But Josie raised the point to KBZK that not only are they "dress coded because the boys are supposed to get their education and not be distracted but we're being distracted by being pulled out of school and not getting our education because our shorts don't make dress code requirements." She also adds, "Personally I don't think I can focus when I'm really hot," which led to her dress choice to begin with.

Though Josie tells Yahoo! Style that she was aware of the dress code rules, "It's a sexist dress code and it needs to be changed - or it needs to be equally enforced. It bothers me because I feel like dress codes are put in place mainly to set boundaries for the female students in that school and their motto is 'dress for success.' If you're going to make us dress like professionals, you should treat us like professionals. It's not professional for them to stand us up in class and point out why we're violating dress code."

No word yet on whether the dress code will be changed as a result of the controversy, but it has certainly brought to light an issue that needs to be addressed, in some form or another when it comes to a dress code that does not treat all students equally.

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Why These Female Students Protested Their High School's Sexist Dress Code

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Two high school students in Montana are taking on their school's dress code, which they believe have an underlying sexist foundation. And, what's more, they have gotten many in their school to join the fight. Josie Espinoza and friend Layne were called out for disobeying the dress code at Belgrade High School on Friday and Josie took to social media to share what happened.

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In mid-April, 11-year-old Molly Neuner's middle school teacher in Maine asked to measure the width of the straps on her tank top. Then, in front of the entire class, the teacher deemed the top to be in violation of the school's dress code, Molly recalled.

Two days later, on April 12, Molly wore a spaghetti-strap top with another tank top underneath to King Middle School in Portland, Maine. On her arm, she wrote #IAmNotADistraction. Her intent was to protest what she felt to be the school's problematic and sexist dress code system.

"Her teacher called her friend and her up in front of the whole class and asked her to measure her tank top and her friend to measure her shorts," Christina Neuner, Molly's mother, told NBC News. "Molly's tank top didn't fit the 2 finger wide rule and her friend's shorts was above the shorts code because she's very tall and has long legs. They were warned about facing detention if it was repeated."

Neuner said Molly had been wearing a purple racer-back sports top and that the teacher sought her out during lunch on the same day and criticized her for not covering it up with a sweatshirt. She said Molly had a jacket and offered to wear the jacket over the top but the teacher rejected her offer and warned her about detention again.

Neuner told NBC News that she was upset by the teacher's actions and reached out to the principal and vice principal. She said she was told that, while other parents had experienced similar issues, the dress code was recently changed to teach children to be respectful of each other's bodies.

"Prior to this incident, the school had a community meeting on April 7, 2017, to discuss the dress code and Molly told me that they focused largely on the girl's dress code," Neuner said. "They wanted to make sure girls didn't wear clothes that would be distracting for the boys. That was their concern."

The King Middle School dress code prohibits girls from wearing bandannas, hats, sport sweatbands, pajama pants, short or tight-fitting skirts or shorts (no shorter than finger-tip length), thin-strapped tops such as halter tops or tube tops. It also forbids boys from wearing tank tops.

"I was like, 'Are you kidding me? Is this 2017? 'The whole rape culture ... this telling 11-year-olds to keep themselves covered or their bodies would be sexualized ... it's crazy," said Neuner. "It should be up to the boys to control themselves, not the girls by getting punished for tank tops."

Mother and daughter researched dress codes across the nation extensively to see if similar issues had come up previously and came across the hashtag #IAmNotADistraction on Instagram. Molly asked her mother to write it on her arm in permanent marker.

Molly also encouraged her friends to dress the same way she did - in spaghetti-strap tops - and went to school with a few permanent markers. She copied the hashtag on nearly 20 other girls in hopes of making statement.

The following day, the school said it would review the dress code at the end of the school year and consider students' perspectives.

"We plan to take this feedback and use it as an opportunity to have some students' and parents' input," said Caitlin LeClair, the school principal.

However, students will be expected to uphold the current dress codes until June 2017. The school has asked Molly to be a part of the review panel for the dress code.

Portland District Superintendent Xavier Botana told Molly's parents that he intends to look into the district-wide policy prohibiting certain types of clothes that cause "material and substantial disruption."

"I don't believe we should be dictating fashion or measuring the length of shorts if it's not a material and substantial distraction," he said Wednesday, the Portland Press Herald reported."I would be hard-pressed to understand how the size of a strap makes a substantial and material disruption."

Molly intends to work with the superintendent to overhaul the entire district's system and empower other girls across the nation in similar circumstances.

"It just felt so empowering to know that other girls have looked up to me and that they are going through this," she told an NBC News affiliate. "Now they have another reason to stand up for themselves."

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Portland sixth grader defies dress code to call out sexism

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In mid-April, 11-year-old Molly Neuner's middle school teacher in Maine asked to measure the width of the straps on her tank top. Then, in front of the entire class, the teacher deemed the top to be in violation of the school's dress code, Molly recalled.