How is how children dress a schools concern? If parents want THEIR kids to dress a certain way that's THEIR responsibilty. And dressing how others want you to has nothing to do with self respect.

I'm on the school boards side here.

T Shultz is right, most school dress codes do disproportionately target girls!!! I'm with the school board here

Always females being the focal point of what's distracting and what's modest. Males can just go around in their skivvies and no one would bat an eye, or deem it too distracting. Geez, I wonder why. Probably because society is so used to it, it's legal and hardly anyone tells a man to put a shirt on when they're outside or at home. Doesn't matter their physique, either. Whereas females, even when we're at the beach/pool, the gym, outside in our own yards, etc, if we're wearing something that shows more than just our limbs, we'd either better be fit and beautiful or people will lose their s**t.

I don't understand how difficult it is to standardize it: Minimum torso coverage is a sleeveless t-shirt. Minimum leg coverage are shorts to a minimum of a 4" inseam. This goes for every body of every gender identification. There's plenty of room for comfort and individuality within those parameters.

Wait...that guy is concerned that his daughters may dress a certain way because that school is going to have less strict rules? If he's concerned how they dress Isn't it his job make sure they dress in a way he thinks is appropriate? Man....how I hate it that men still want to tell women how to dress. That is some Taliban shít right there, under the disguise of concerned parenting

The problem is not who's showing some skin, but who gets so distracted by it that needs to regulate how women or girls dress. And I'm not only thinking schools for that matter.

Having grown up in a free, liberal European country 😉 in the 90s/00s I have to say that until today I do not understand the prude US approach! Yes, we've worn occasionally that spaghetti-tank-top, the hot-pants and not to mention every kind of uncomfortable clunky/tiny high heels. And never ever have we been a distraction when it came to having classes. Simply because the boys and teachers were used to it. What got really embarrassing in hindsight was the lack of style (but hey what do you expect from the late 90s/early 00s?)! The only reason/conflict I've seen were rich kids clothes vs not rich kids one. Not everyone was so fortunate to have parents to buy them Adidas/Puma/Airwalk/Nike sneakers, Miss sixty/Levi's trousers or Karl Kani, Nike, Fubu, Stüssy pullovers! So what I would have advocated for (when being forced) were school uniforms. Also when looking now at all the embarrassing clothing choices! However, this US-man, in my opinion, comes over like an absolute creep!

I think we're losing the crop top battle with my 16yo daughter. Every generation goes through this. Whatever the trend is for that time, the parents think its inappropriate, the kids think its fine, and we do the best we can do while trying to limit the therapy costs of our children when they're adults. Not sure this dad was very successful at that with this stunt, but I'm sure he's doing his best too. I empathize with him but also, this sort of thing is very much the school board's business and loosening stricter rules isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially when they tend to target one group of people.

Middle aged men arguing about what girls should be allowed to wear to preserve "modesty". Pheonix or Kabul? It's difficult to tell...

How about teaching your son not to perve on girls in his class?

So here's a thought why doesn't the actual PARENT (S) take responsibility for how their lil "angels" dress. This isn't a school problem it's a parent problem. Don't provide your child with inappropriate (according to you) clothing. Furthermore it's up to the PARENT to teach manners and such. There are many hateful children out there that disrespect everyone including their teachers. How the hell is this a teachers responsibility?? Sickening blaming the school for crappy parenting.

Isn't it incredible how it's men who have issues with what girls wear? Maybe men should spend a couple of years each being g exposed to the restrictions that girls get on their clothes and bodies. America seems to be getting as bad as Afghanistan in the way to tell women how they dress and behave... sorry but it's true, America is becoming an embarrassment to the western world for their incredible sexist and racial prejudices

Nothing wrong with a good school uniform - in summer we wore a blue & white check dress, in winter a shirt and grey skirt. I believe that track suits were allowed later, for winter. Boys wore pants and shirts and ties. This way the poorer kids were on the same level as the more affluent.

Imo, lax dress codes rock. Let the kids dress themselves, uniforms suck, no matter how many variations because we all become a collective, not individuals. We're caged animals, going from a uniform primary and secondary to a free dress college was at first daunting, but now it's so much better. Yeah sure, some folks distract me with their beauty, but that's 'cause they pride themselves on beauty and it's my reaction to stare. Not their fault, not them needing to cover up, my fault for lacking self-discipline. That's how it is.

What's more distracting than closes is the constant wondering if you're going to get dress-coded, and the message that this sends to young adults about their bodies.

cool we’ve started sexualizing minors now. This site is going to c**p. Real talk.

And the "checks" are so much more degrading for females. Private and public school. Teachers walking around with rulers checking for skirt length, short length and width of tank top strap. I was sent home from private school and missed my exam because she made me unbutton my pants and show the interior tag to prove they were not made by the uniform outfitters. They were identical and had the school initials embroidered into the pant leg but the tag was different

You know all these rules are just discriminating agains girls and laying all potential blame on them, right? This is so ridiculous and horrific. Where I am from, there is and was never a problem with girls dressing however they like, because all children are taught to RESPECT others and not go pulling bra straps or shaming girls of „dressing inappropriately“. You know, I think women here are less self conscious and more ok with their own body, because we do not shame them for how they dress and they had the opportunity to grow and experiment. Plus: less violence against women. I was and am always able to go for a walk alone in the dark. Even in a big city like Hamburg, I never felt afraid.

Happy middle ground can surely be found. Midriffs and tank tops are not appropriate for anyone at most work places.

I've always been a fan of uniforms. Wore them for 15 years, including nursing school. Less peer pressure from other kids to wear certain clothes. And God forbid you were poor- the teasing and ridicule is awful. Less concern about what to wear for the kids.

Im writing this again, I lived 20 years of my life on Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, were its super hot all year long. Normal way of dressing for young people is shorts and crop tops, even some old people lol. But for school, noone would go dressed like this, if you do they send you straight home. You going to school not to the beach, they teached us dress for the moment, and there's a moment for everything. Theres a moment to go and study and theres a moment to go to the beach. I honestly don't get the US.

I don't consider the lower part of the chest to be inappropriate or sexual, I think my school is much more lenient on dress code rules and it isn't a distraction, I just see more people expressing themselves.