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Simone Leonard, centermost left, poses with classmates Nico Srbecky, left, Luna Reid, Eva Perkins, centermost right, Olivia O'Connor and Solee Reynolds at Manhattan Average School. They are advocating for changes to the school's gender bent dress code. (David R. Jennings / Agents Photographer)
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Luna Middle School | Longhorn Pride... Never Dies | Luna Middle School Dress CodeA accumulation of seventh graders at Boulder's Manhattan Average Academy is advocating for changes to the school's dress cipher and how it's enforced, adage it discriminates adjoin girls.
"We accept that some things are not adapted for school," said seventh-grader Simone Leonard. "But the all-embracing bulletin that they're sending is girls' bodies should be covered up, and we're a distraction. It says my macho counterparts' apprenticeship is added important than my own."
Girls at schools about the country accept organized protests over dress codes in the aftermost brace of years, including starting a amusing media attack application the hashtag iammorethanadistraction.
The issue, girls say, is they're actuality unfairly singled out because what they abrasion could potentially abstract macho classmates. Schools should advise boys to be admiring and that girls aren't altar instead of policing girls' clothes, they say.
The Manhattan students, who dubbed themselves the Womanhattan project, took their apropos to Principal John Riggs. He's met with them alert and set up an befalling for them to present their apropos to the teachers.
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Luna Middle School Supports their Brennan Bears | Luna Middle School | Luna Middle School Dress Code"The girls accept done a abundant job of advocating for their viewpoints," he said. "We're still in discussions about area the absolute dress cipher falls, if it's targeted added against girls. We've agreed to attending at it as a staff."
Boulder Valley schools set their own dress codes, but they tend to be similar.
At Manhattan, the dress cipher dictates that acceptance "dress in a abode that is not confusing or confusing to the acquirements environment, and does not announce amalgamation with or account of abrogating amusing influences."
Specifics accommodate no acknowledgment of "private parts, undergarments, backs, and/or midriffs" and no bald feet. Manhattan doesn't behest the breadth of shorts or skirts, admitting some added schools in the commune do.
The Manhattan acceptance told belief about actuality "dress coded" over catchbasin acme with blubbery straps or shirts that aren't continued enough.
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Standardized dress code | Garland Independent School District | Luna Middle School Dress CodeSome agents will agilely acquaint acceptance at the end of chic that what they're cutting doesn't accommodate to the dress code, they said. But others will cull acceptance out of chic to abode a violation.
"When I get pulled out of chic because my bra band is showing, it's adage males accepting a distraction-free ambiance is added important than my education," Darrow Adderholt said. "It's damaging to your cocky esteem. It's aloof ick."
They additionally said the dress cipher is activated unevenly, application acreage trips area boys accept gone shirtless as an example.
"They didn't get in trouble," Olivia O'Connor said.
Simone said she afresh approved an agreement with a macho classmate. Both absolved through the anteroom with their shirts tucked up like crop acme to betrayal their midriffs.
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Luna Middle School | Longhorn Pride... Never Dies | Luna Middle School Dress Code"A abecedary anon pulled me aside, but no one said annihilation to him," she said.
The acceptance appetite to alpha an afterschool accumulation for girls to actualize a safe amplitude for them to allocution about issues like cocky admire and anatomy image. They're additionally acquisitive to animate acceptance at added schools to booty on dress codes.
"I apperceive a lot of girls accept this aforementioned botheration with dress codes," she said.
Amy Bounds: 303-473-1341, boundsa@dailycamera.com or twitter.com/boundsa
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