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Shoulders and Knees Mean Leave

High school dress code is a policy enforced all over the country but every school enforces it in their own way, some ways better than others.

“I got dress coded the 24th of August this year because the straps on my arms weren’t long enough,” junior Makenna Stevenson said. “I’m pretty sure the rule is your straps have to be three fingers and shorts have to be past your fingertips.”

Here at our school if you violate dress code you have to go to the office and borrow a shirt or pants, depending on what your wearing that is out of code.

“The dress code is totally not fair because why should girls not be aloud to show their shoulders, guys have naked girls on their shirts and their pants are sagging, the dress code doesn’t apply fairly,” Stevenson said.

Stevenson finds the bias very upsetting as to who gets dress coded and why. “I don’t think the dress code is fair. The administration picks and chooses who they are going to call a violation on. Sometimes girls wear shirts that cover their pants and nothing happens but other times it’s like girls who are a centimeter off in length get coded all the time,” Stevenson said.