Dress Code Hassels // Tymie Jadagu // 6th P

Link to Article: https://www.yahoo.com/style/school-sends-70-female-students-home-for-too-short-130755562.html
Summary: At yet another school, this time in England, a multitude of girls have been sent home over dress code issues. Administrators claim that their "too-short" skirts encourage boys to "peer up their hemlines. Chloe, a junior at the school where 70 girls were sent home, spoke out, and accused the school of being discriminatory and disgusting, because the school tends to whine about their workload not being enough but yet they are sent home over a skirt not being knee length. Her own father did not see the issue with the skirt. However, the headmaster is sticking to her claim of their skirts being short, distracting, and blaming it on the girls. She even goes as far to cite the fact that climbing up the stairs could be a place for boys to peer up girl's skirts.
Analysis: In my opinion, a skirt length is not that deep for girls to be sent home. I am tired of seeing the "boys will be boys" attitude in 2016. It's time to WAKE UP. Behavior like this encourages rape culture, and normalizes the over-sexualization of the female body. This could be synthesized to the time of the 70's during the second wave of feminism. This is the exact kind of issue that the feminists of that time would have fought for. I'm hoping that when my children are in school, their education will be valued more than the length of her skirt.