https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t en-us 2021-09-14 01:29:18 UTC 2023-12-15 17:21:24 UTC hello@padlet.com vetterjulia10 https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1752270925 This article talks about social-emotional learning, its relation to dress coding, and the importance of it in schools. In short, social-emotional learning focuses on teaching students how to regulate their emotions and positive mind-sets. But, when schools don't create a safe environment for there students, the efforts to teach and enforce social-emotional learning are being wasted. It is important that schools take the time to look over and revisit policies like dress code policies for instances where a student is not allowed to wear something that is an expression of their culture. Another valid point that was discussed in this article is the idea of inclusivity. There are too many instances where schools have a dress code policy that forces students to leave their culture and their background outside of school, making the racially and culturally diverse students think that they do not belong in school. I think this idea of social-emotional learning and inclusivity linked to dress code policies is something that is not thought about enough. This article definitely shifted my perspective and thoughts about dress codes in which it did not only focus on the simple fact of a student being called out for the clothing they are wearing, but the way in which it can effect the mental and emotional well-being of a student.]]> 2021-09-19 19:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1752270925 vetterjulia10 https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1752283163 This source discusses how school dress codes unfairly target female students and students of color. Throughout this article, there are stories shared from different students about how their school dress code is unfair. The story that stood out to me was one that a 17-year-old student shared about how the majority of girls dress coded at her school are the black females. When this issue was brought up by the student to a male administrator, the response he gave was,  “because white girls don’t have as much to show.” This administrator did not even focus on the inequality/issue that this student was bringing attention to. Instead he gave her a response that further supports the fact that females bodies are focused on way to often when it comes to dress codes. It is also a response that highlights the way in which female students of color are targeted. Every female student has to follow the same rules, but it seems they are enforced more on the students of color when that should not be the case. The unfair aspect to dress code policies is the simple fact that clothing does not fit everyone the same way. Students should only be getting in trouble for the clothing they are wearing, not because of their bodies. ]]> 2021-09-19 19:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1752283163 vetterjulia10 https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1755856341 "When a girl is getting pulled out of class, or a boy is getting pulled out of class so that they can go home, or fix their clothes, it disrupts their education."

Dress codes are important policies to have in schools. Obviously there are good reasons as to why certain dress code rules exist in schools. Teaching students what is appropriate and inappropriate in terms of being in a learning environment is an important lesson for administrators of schools to encourage and enforce. This video talks about those reasons, and a principal of a school talks about why dress codes are important and the reasons why schools enforce them. But, what really stood out to me in this particular source is what real students had to say about their school dress codes. While some students shared their own experiences about being dress coded, mostly all of the students presented in the video gave their own personal opinions regarding dress code. They discussed why it is an important policy to focus on, and the efforts they go through to push for more fair dress codes. Self expression and how that is being taken away because of dress code policies is something that was mentioned as well, and that relates to how dress code rules can take a toll on someone mentally and go against social emotional learning.]]> 2021-09-21 02:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1755856341 vetterjulia10 https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1755867889 This image offers a good visual representation of how it feels for any female student to be dress coded. I think it emphasizes the extreme focus there is on female students, and how they are put at fault because of their bodies; their bodies are such a distraction to others that they might as well wear a cardboard box around themselves so that no one can comment that they are showing too much skin or that the exposed parts of their bodies are distracting those around them. ]]> 2021-09-21 02:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1755867889 vetterjulia10 https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1764246352 Before this curation assignment, I think the lenses that informed my opinion on this issue are the lenses in which I was taught to look through during my time in grade school and the influence of the adults around me. Personally, I have never had a super strong opinion towards dress code policies. I am someone who has never experienced being dress coded by an adult at school, and also have never witnessed a friend being dress coded. But, I was aware of the rules and had a general idea of what was acceptable and unacceptable in terms of appropriate wardrobe in school. There were a few teachers that I remember reminding girls in school about the "finger tip rule", or the rule that your shorts/skirts have to be past your fingertips. I also have memories of a conversation about how our shoulders shouldn't be exposed because it can be a distraction to others. I guess from then on I learned through my peers and for myself that dress codes generally targeted female students more than they did male students. I do think my perspective of this issue is limited because I have never experienced being dress coded as a female student. You can read a number of stories and articles about dress coding, but you can only understand them and relate to them to such an extent. But, I can confidently say that I have learned a lot more information regarding dress coding from this assignment. I was more close minded to the opinion that girls get dress coded for ridiculous reasons and never boys. But, I learned the deeper ways in which dress coding can affect students and the ways in which it discriminates and singles out students as well.]]> 2021-09-23 23:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1764246352 vetterjulia10 https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1769062329 "It’s not a surprise that many of the dress-code controversies that make the news involve girls and African American students, some researchers said. Their bodies are particularly under scrutiny by school officials—and the students know it."

This article, as it states in the title, discusses the ways in which schools enforce dress codes that are discriminatory towards specific groups of students. While females are a group that are targeted very often, this article focused more on the instances where students of color were targeted by their school dress codes.

There were a number of examples included in the article that gave me a better understanding of how exactly dress code policies can be discriminatory towards students who are racially or culturally diverse. A valid quote from the article that stood out to me was, "Teachers and students at the school said black males are more likely to be disciplined for dress-code violations than white males, even though their violation rates were similar..." Preferential treatment is a term that is mentioned in the article, and that is when one person or a group of people are given a preferred advantage over others. In this case, it seems a student is given preferential treatment based on their ethnicity or culture.

No student should ever be targeted by a dress code more than others in school just because of their ethnicity, gender, or culture.  Schools need to do a better job at making every student feel safe and accepted in a school environment and get rid of obvious discriminatory dress code policies.]]> 2021-09-26 18:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vetterjulia10/xohyjvaw1m1xyi1t/wish/1769062329