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Abraham Lincoln
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Schools should apply strict dress code
Abraham Lincoln
You're wrong—strict dress codes are control masquerading as education. They waste administrative time policing hemlines instead of teaching algebra, distract students with arbitrary rules, and disproportionately punish girls for "distracting" boys—which teaches them their bodies are the problem, not boys' behavior.
Schools that loosened dress codes saw no rise in disruption. What we got was students who could actually focus. A teenager in ripped jeans learns the same calculus as one in pressed khakis. The real lesson strict codes teach is compliance over thinking.
If you want discipline, build it through purpose and respect, not surveillance of clothing. That's what matters.
What specific problem are you trying to solve with dress codes?