The NO More Dress Code In CMSD Schools
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We the students and or parents of students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District would like your attention on an ongoing issue in the school system. School Dress code is an unnecessary burden on students and parents alike, and here's why.
The CMSD has been taking things a little too far ever since Dr. Eugene Sanders Became the CEO of the district. The implementation of dress code for all schools is ridiculous and has no place in school especially when you consider the facts. The same facts that the CMSD has been twisting to their favor.
1. School unifroms do NOThelp students academically perform better. The very idea of that is outrageous. Clothes dont make the student, a student is shaped by their teachers ( which by the way dont have a dress code ). And by the way, we learn just the same in a t-shirt and jeans as we would in a collared shirt and khakis.
2. "School uniforms are cheaper than regular clothes." This is entirely untrue. You're trying to say that buying and entirely new wardrobe of uniform clothes is CHEAPER than an already pre-existing wardrobe of clothing that students already have in their closets. Even buying the clothes new is cheaper than buying new uniform clothes. The average basic t-shirt cost $4 while a a basic polo shirt cost on average of $6. uniform pants can run you anywhere from $15-$20. for that price, you could walk in to your local wal-mart and pick up 2 pairs of jeans.
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" Uniforms make it easier to identify which students belong to a school, and easier to identify an intruder." Another blatant lie. Most Schools allow more than one color choice so keeping track of which student belongs where goes right out the window. And that thing about identifying an intruder is also dumb because couldn't an intruder just come into the school wearing dress code?
If that wasn't bad enough, there's a bunch of regulations on how the dress code must be followed. "All shirts must be tucked in","Belts must be worn for all slacks, shorts, skirts, and skorts with belt loops." I raise this question, WHY? It's really uncomfortable to go 7 hours like that. Then, the dumbest part of it all, is that theres are teachers who suspend students for not following the dress code. even for something as small as an untucked shirt. Does that make any sense, the student wakes up early in the morning to show up to school but gets sent home on average of 3-5 days because of how they're dressed. Then by the time the student comes back to school, they're behind on their lessons and find it nearly impossible to catch up. Then the schools complain theres such poor attendence or poor test scores. It's the schools faults for suspending the students.
All we as students are asking for is the ability to express individuality, as for the attendance in general, students would be more likely to come to school if they were allowed to wear what they wanted. Your choice of clothing usually reflects your mood for the day, and if we're stuck to only 2 shirt colors and 2 kinds of pants, things get bland quickly. Maybe the schools should start focusing less on what we look like and more on what we're learning. Maybe the school district should start getting rid of some of the dead beat teachers that roam the schools without a care in the world as to what's going on in the classroom. Maybe they should realize just how much more harm they are doing to us by suspending us so often than if they would just let us come to school dressed how we want.
Of course, all of this is within good reason, we're not asking to come to school in half shirts, and biker shorts, we're just asking for a way to further express our individuality.
The CMSD has been taking things a little too far ever since Dr. Eugene Sanders Became the CEO of the district. The implementation of dress code for all schools is ridiculous and has no place in school especially when you consider the facts. The same facts that the CMSD has been twisting to their favor.
1. School unifroms do NOThelp students academically perform better. The very idea of that is outrageous. Clothes dont make the student, a student is shaped by their teachers ( which by the way dont have a dress code ). And by the way, we learn just the same in a t-shirt and jeans as we would in a collared shirt and khakis.
2. "School uniforms are cheaper than regular clothes." This is entirely untrue. You're trying to say that buying and entirely new wardrobe of uniform clothes is CHEAPER than an already pre-existing wardrobe of clothing that students already have in their closets. Even buying the clothes new is cheaper than buying new uniform clothes. The average basic t-shirt cost $4 while a a basic polo shirt cost on average of $6. uniform pants can run you anywhere from $15-$20. for that price, you could walk in to your local wal-mart and pick up 2 pairs of jeans.
3.
" Uniforms make it easier to identify which students belong to a school, and easier to identify an intruder." Another blatant lie. Most Schools allow more than one color choice so keeping track of which student belongs where goes right out the window. And that thing about identifying an intruder is also dumb because couldn't an intruder just come into the school wearing dress code?
If that wasn't bad enough, there's a bunch of regulations on how the dress code must be followed. "All shirts must be tucked in","Belts must be worn for all slacks, shorts, skirts, and skorts with belt loops." I raise this question, WHY? It's really uncomfortable to go 7 hours like that. Then, the dumbest part of it all, is that theres are teachers who suspend students for not following the dress code. even for something as small as an untucked shirt. Does that make any sense, the student wakes up early in the morning to show up to school but gets sent home on average of 3-5 days because of how they're dressed. Then by the time the student comes back to school, they're behind on their lessons and find it nearly impossible to catch up. Then the schools complain theres such poor attendence or poor test scores. It's the schools faults for suspending the students.
All we as students are asking for is the ability to express individuality, as for the attendance in general, students would be more likely to come to school if they were allowed to wear what they wanted. Your choice of clothing usually reflects your mood for the day, and if we're stuck to only 2 shirt colors and 2 kinds of pants, things get bland quickly. Maybe the schools should start focusing less on what we look like and more on what we're learning. Maybe the school district should start getting rid of some of the dead beat teachers that roam the schools without a care in the world as to what's going on in the classroom. Maybe they should realize just how much more harm they are doing to us by suspending us so often than if they would just let us come to school dressed how we want.
Of course, all of this is within good reason, we're not asking to come to school in half shirts, and biker shorts, we're just asking for a way to further express our individuality.
186 Signatures
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Lavinia Roche
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- Concentrate on the education!!
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cassandra
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Jensy Rivera
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- dont focus on our clothes but focus on what your job really needs and intends you to focus on which is something called education!
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jack galindez
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- dress code is bad im all ways ripping the pants on my bike
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Josй Mendez
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Marjorie Roche
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- i agree 100\%, kids should have freedom of expression. uniforms are unconstitutional.
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Jazmine Ramos
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- we shouldn't all look the same!
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Justin Roche
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- freedom of expression!!!
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Amy Sampson
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- we are all different , dont make us dress the same!
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Cesar Andino
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- Conformity will only make us rebel.
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Joshua Ramos
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- Dress code has no place in society, and i find it ludicrous the schools would even begin to consider it
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Gloriel Rodriguez
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Tejon Brown
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- NO MORE DRESS CODES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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jaime velasquez
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justin gonzalez
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- i hate that uniform too and its useless and waste of money to buy clothes to onoly wear for school and its just terrible
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Kenneth Stodghill Jr.
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- stop the dress code
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Antwon Tidwell
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- We need to focus on getting more up to date text books and things that will help us learn. My American Goverment book was back from when Bill Clinton was president. Things like the Patriot Act are not even mentioned. You want us to follow a dress code, well we want a decent education so we can actually compete in the world when we graduate.
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William Hernandez
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James Lebron
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- dress code sux!!!
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adam boda
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- the dress code is ridicoulous i am considering transferring to a new school because of this, worry about whats being put into our heads,not whats being put on our body!
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adam boda
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- NO MORE DRESS CODE! WE CANT LEARN WITH A CERTAIN TYPE OF CLOTHING ON!WE NEED GOOD TEACHERS BETTER SCHOOL SUPPLIES, WHY DO YOU THINK THE GRADUATION RATE IS LESS THAN 50\%, "THE GOAL OF THE CLEVELAND MUNINCIPLE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS TO BECOME ONE OF THE PREMIER SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE COUNTRY" YOU CANT DO THAT WHEN YOU WORRY ABOUT OUR CLOTHES AND WHAT WE WEAR WHEN YOURE NOT WORRYING ABOUT WHAT THE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING, THERE PROBLEMS AWAY FROM SCHOOL, ETC. END THE DRESS CODE, GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM THAT WE SORELY NEED!
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steven hughes
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- I HATE DRESS CODE
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Brandon Brunecz
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amber tiderman
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Anjanec Garcia
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- The school is soo worried about our uniform insted of what we are learning! If we are not wearing anything too reveling then whats the problem with us dressing how we want and being more cofident!? If we wore what we want then we would all worie less about how weird we look in uniform and worrie more about our school work and passing the OGT!!!!----STOP THE UNIFORM----
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carrie
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- dress code does not help anyone! especiallty not accademically
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anthony p.
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Erica Mosley
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- NO MORE DRESSCODE!
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Ashley
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- should be able to wear what they want excluding hoodies and back pakcs because it makes them different as individuals in the school district.
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Amanda Evans
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- CMSD should worry less about what we look like and more about what we learn in school.
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Mashhour shehadeh
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- Dress code = more suspensions which = less time in the classroom
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Joshua McMarlin
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- everyday the teachers have stop what they are doing to tell a student to tuck in there shirts.
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Felipe Garcia
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- I think dress code is the worst idea ever. Its rediculous to think we will learn better wearing dress code then a pair of jeans and a t-shirt
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Grace Colon
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- Instead of adding more rules to follow, add more classes to choose from.
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Christopher Franklin Calvert
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- I agree!! Dress Code has nothing to do with learning!!
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Rafael Castro
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- I read the article and whoever came up with this website I applaud you because you are taking a stand to the voice who matters the least in the world and that is the voice of the minority A.K.A. the teenagers!!!! Way to go and keep up the good work!!!
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John McMarlin
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- I think the teachers should worry more about school in stead of dress code!!!!!!!!!
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Svetlana L.
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Andrew cole "10" lincoln west
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- i belive we should be able to wear what we want because being told what to wear does not seem like freedom to me and were supposed to be the land of the free
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Stephanie Espinosa
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KASHEA HARDGE
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- PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD TO BUY 2 DIFFERENT WEARS (FOR SCHOOL, AND CASUAL) STOP TREATING US LIKE BABIES AND LET US WEAR WAT WE FEEL DEFINES US BEST, NOT WHAT YOU THINK IS BEST, IT'S NOT YOUR BODY!!!
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William Diaz J.R.
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- Right on. no more dress code. its holding our potentail.
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Danielly Miranda L.W w0lv3r1@ns
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- Think about.... We are all different! What makes you think we want to look all the same!!! This Dress code crap is ridiculous... Im standing up for myself and those who agree Dress Code should be ELIMINATED from all CMSD school...... Justed get over it!!! Stop trying to make students wear dress code.... justed once try to put yourself in our position
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Heaven Lovejoy
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- I agree a hundred and ten precent on this
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Justin Williams
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- NO MORE DRESSCODE
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Justin Castro L.W.
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- It is retarted to wear dress code. Because I know most parents pay for there kids uniform when they could just save that money bills and incase of emergency money. If they think uniform changes the way a student acts it won't the student will be them.
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Tania
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- your awesome
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Mariam
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Diana
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Ashley Glover
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