School Dress Code

“Dress to impress” is a very well known saying used in many particular ways. The way someone dresses is one of the first things a person notices when they first meet. For some people, fitting into a new school can be very difficult. Because of this, children try to hide their true personality by trying to be someone they aren’t. Each day, more and more schools around the world are adopting some form of dress code. Schools have the responsibility to be a safe and orderly place that maintain an environment conducive to learning (wayne).
Over the years, schools have heavily enforced dress code to address a wide range of issues. Today, most states have laws that allow school boards to make dress code rules for students within their district to promote a safe, disciplined school environment, prevent interference with school work and discipline, and to encourage uniformity of student dress (school). Dress code helps prepare young adults for a future job that requires a certain dress code or possible uniform. Students that do not follow dress code can be very revealing and distracting to the learning environment are not properly ready for the future. …show more content…
As children continue to grow, their clothes will no longer fit and they will need new ones. At the beginning of the school year, going out and buying new clothes get very expensive the older the child gets repeating this every year gets very difficult because of the amount of money just invested in the clothes for that school year, without the cost of books, school lunches, and extra curricular activities. School itself is very expensive and buying new clothes shouldn’t be a necessity, that's why many schools are starting to make their students wear school