Dress Code?!

Dress code is always a controversial subject...especially in this day of age where there are fashion magazines practically at every store and more and more people are experimenting with their look as a form of expression. So when we picked to study this civil liberty lab we were given the opportunity to view some YouTube videos of different stories that involve dress code. Both of the videos that we viewed were surprising and just...weird. One high school is making their students wear jumpsuits as a way to protect their dress code while another school in Florida banned students from wearing anything with a rainbow on it because the school felt it supported gays.

Fortunately, UNCSA is not going haywire with their dress code restrictions like these two schools. Our school is not like other schools though. We are not a public school, so we have less restriction when it comes to dress code. Our school dress code is not very limited. If one wanted to show up in the school building naked, that would not be allowed. However, other than that we can wear what we wish. Our dress code is not even listen in our planner, like most other public schools. Personally, I have never seen our dress code policy in written form but it has, indeed, been talked about. However, when it comes to our art classes. There is a dress code for some of the arts such as dance and drama. We have to wear specific colors and/or leotards and/or shoes for our art classes, but not for our academic classes.

Our school's dress code does in fact abide by the constitution in being that we have the freedom of speech, but it is, in a way, restricted. We cannot be tasteless with what we wear and present ourselves in nudity or close to it. But we have the freedom to express ourselves with our clothes in a not so restricted fashion. I do not think that in the two years I have attended UNCSA that I have ever seen a problem with dress code. With no problems, I don't think that there is anything to change about our dress code because it is great, and I know a lot of students appreciate it.

Luckily we don't have to follow specific rules such as these----