School Board to review dress code

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Oct 21

Why does a dress code even exist?  Who should design it?

You have to wonder if the girls protesting dress codes learned anything in sex ed classes – that it’s all social construct unmoored to reality?  The reason dress codes exist nowadays is to keep decorum somewhat professional in the class room and as a reason to control some girls from giving in to their natural inclinations after they’ve reached the nubile age of consent.

Should a dress code be developed by the likes of Jeffrey Epstein?  Some days, you’d think he had.

(In 2019 Toronto District School Board updated its dress code to allow tops that expose shoulders, stomachs, midriffs, neck lines and cleavage, and bottoms that expose legs thighs and hips.  Students are now allowed to wear crop tops tank tops tube tops and backless tops.)

School principal Theresa Sgambato was forced to apologize for have advised girls not to wear tank tops and crop tops to school.  She did so probably to avoid having numerous girl-to-girl talks about what the male teachers are staring at, and to have the boys concentrating on what’s being taught, not what’s on display.

Oh, we can’t “blame the victim!”  But if we started to, then dress might rapidly become more modest.

The days of school uniforms aren’t that distant, and school uniforms aren’t a bad idea.  The woke comments by the Associate Professor of social sciences, child and youth studies at Brock University are beneath contempt and disgrace whatever academic merit her field pretends to.

(Shauna Pomerantz was quoted as saying that school dress codes often serve to “police” girls’ bodies – and some bodies more than others.  “I’ve seen cases in school where larger girls who had larger breasts, more cleavage, they were sent home for wearing the same type of tank top that a skinnier, smaller-busted girl was not sent home for.”  The message that can send is that a student’s body is “dangerous” or “inappropriate” or even “ugly.”  Dress codes serve to teach a “hidden curriculum.”  “When we tell students they have to look a certain way – quote unquote professional – that’s actually code for looking white, middle-class, heterosexual.  We’re really limiting what we tell young people is good and right and normal.)

(Aside: And what could be more evil than white, middle-class, and heterosexual?  It never occurs to the prof that maybe normal is what should be taught, so that not-normal can be recognized for what it is – not normal!  This is the woke crap that is taught at university “studies” courses these days.)

Dress codes ought to be developed by the adults.  This isn’t one that can be trusted to the adolescents.  The adults can’t shirk their duty on this one.

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