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    This Dress Code Stinks

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    The student newspaper at Pleasantville High School is criticizing the newly implemented school dress code. The students believe the dress code is too restrictive and infringes on their free speech rights. They were not consulted during the decision-making process, which the students see as disrespectful. Additionally, the students suspect the real motivation is to promote the sale of specific logo-free shirts sold by the school. The administration has been unhelpful and defensive in addressing students' questions and concerns about the new policy. The students are calling for an open dialogue on the issue and a reconsideration of the dress code rules.

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    The student newspaper at Pleasantville High School is criticizing the newly implemented school dress code. The students believe the dress code is too restrictive and infringes on their free speech rights. They were not consulted during the decision-making process, which the students see as disrespectful. Additionally, the students suspect the real motivation is to promote the sale of specific logo-free shirts sold by the school. The administration has been unhelpful and defensive in addressing students' questions and concerns about the new policy. The students are calling for an open dialogue on the issue and a reconsideration of the dress code rules.

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    The student newspaper at Pleasantville High School is criticizing the newly implemented school dress code. The students believe the dress code is too restrictive and infringes on their free speech rights. They were not consulted during the decision-making process, which the students see as disrespectful. Additionally, the students suspect the real motivation is to promote the sale of specific logo-free shirts sold by the school. The administration has been unhelpful and defensive in addressing students' questions and concerns about the new policy. The students are calling for an open dialogue on the issue and a reconsideration of the dress code rules.

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    This Dress Code Stinks!

    The staff of the Pleasantville High Reporter would like to take a stand against what we believe is
    a draconian, free-speech-stifling measure: our new dress code, which was approved at the
    latest PTA meeting.
    We are almost adults, and we should be treated as such. This is an issue of respect, and the
    student body wishes we had been given a chance to speak for ourselves prior to this decision
    being made. The fact that we weren’t consulted at all says a lot about the administration’s
    opinion of its students, not to mention the parents’. If students were to get together and decide
    that our parents couldn’t wear blue jeans, there would be a huge fight. With the roles reversed,
    we have little recourse. It’s very frustrating.
    Were shirts with writing on them ever an issue to begin with? Outside of a few isolated incidents
    in school records, the latest of which occurred a little under a decade ago, we can’t find proof at
    all that says they were.
    In fact, the only paperwork we could find said the school is selling garments from a specific
    maker—Pleasantville Wordless Shirts—at a pretty good markup. The school doesn’t force us to
    wear the shirts or anything, but they push them on us quite a bit as good alternatives…and that
    makes this columnist wonder.
    The administration has been little help in our quest to get this all figured out. In fact, our editor
    requested to talk to the principal about it so many times he threatened punishment if she
    brought it up again. This is hardly a professional response to a disagreement, a pattern we’ve
    noticed in almost all instances related to this new dress code. If anything, our administrators
    came out swinging, taking the defensive before we even really complained.
    Why is this all so important? There are a few reasons. The first is that, as people with free
    speech rights, we want to wear whatever we want, provided it’s appropriate to display at school.
    Certainly nobody wearing a shirt with curse words all over it should be allowed in, but simple
    branding or logos with words? Banning those altogether is a bullheaded move.
    Secondly, and maybe more importantly, we want an open dialogue when ​any ​decision regarding
    our personal expression is made. This is only fair. It’s something people have fought for—and
    with good reason. Rules shouldn’t be made for rules’ sake (or, as we suspect, for selling shirts’
    sake).
    We’d love to talk this out. If anyone capable of making an overturn decision wishes to hear our
    case, we’ll send delegates. Even if nothing changes, perhaps someone can offer us an
    explanation. In this situation, it’s hardly too much to ask for. We wonder why we should even
    have to ask at all.

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