"Not only are students' reading choices sometimes censored, so
uniform or a dress code for students.
are their clothing choices. Many schools have a mandatory
students can
These policies are said to promote safety and discipline. However, they also limit how
express themselves through their appearance. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in the
past
number of public schools requiring students to wear uniforms has almost doubled, to 19 percent (Abutaleb, 2012).
Although some students and parents welcome uniforms and dress codes, others do not. In 2001, a group of students and
parents in Texas took a school district to court contending that
the school's mandatory uniform policy violated First
mendment rights. The Fifth Circuit Court ruled that the school's policy
that
the school's policy was constitutional and that students had failed to show
the policy suppressed free expression. In cases involving school dress codes, courts across the
upheld school policies.
But some school dress codes seem unnecessarily restrictive. There are
country have generally
flip-flops, fuzzy slippers, boots, leggings, and
dress codes that forbid sandals,
clothes with the names of sports teams. Whenever a dress code or uniform
enforced, it can be argued that the right of students to express themselves is suppressed.
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