Dress Code

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There are many great things about this great school. There is a great faculty and overall a great group of students. A perfect appearance is Providence Days’ goal. In achieving this goal of perfection, Providence Day (PD), in my opinion, are cheating there students and some of faculty with the dress code. The dress code directly conflicts more than half of are schools core values. The contradiction of the values makes those values look more like some pretty writing opposed to a goal that this school is trying to achieve.
What makes the dress code so controversial is the inconsistency the dress code has, with many of Providence Days’ core values. As I look at Providence Days’ core values, four out of the eleven schools values contradict the dress code. One value states; “We believe that the school community should help each student maximize individual potential, explore unique interests and develop self-confidence.” My interpretation of this quote consists of the idea that the schools population is going to help each student maximize their potential, accept their uniqueness, and help them build self confidence. A dress code takes a lot out of this goal. A student’s wardrobe was one of our last ways of expressing ourselves in a safe and legal manner. The implementation of a dress code limits a student’s uniqueness. The dress code also restrains their development of self confidence because, it makes them think there is only one way to dress that will present them in a respectable light. The feeling of there only being one way to dress respectively does not give them a chance to explore the diverse ways of dressing.
The core value that states: “We believe that students should be encouraged to try new endeavors and take risks without fear of failure” is a big contradiction in school values and an enforced dress code. When Providence Day says they want kids to try different things without fear of failure, and then turn...