
Why Do Schools Have Uniforms And Dress Codes
When a California jailbait noticed that abounding changeable acceptance at his aerial academy were accepting penalized for cutting what he anticipation were altogether adequate outfits, he crafted a able plan in protest.
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Phillip Rodriguez, 17, showed up to chic one day in October cutting a white belly-baring shirt and low-slung jeans that appear his underwear — a bright abuse of the dress code.
“I capital to see, well, if the girls are accepting dress coded for that, what if I do it?” Rodriguez, a chief at Hueneme Aerial Academy in Oxnard, California, told TODAY Style.
Rodriguez said he came up with the abstraction afterwards a decidedly barbarous calefaction wave, back he witnessed several changeable acceptance at his academy get in agitation for their outfits. The Southern California burghal accomplished record-breaking calefaction in backward October, with temperatures aloft 100 degrees for canicule in a row.
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“It was actual hot,” Rodriguez said. “These girls, they don’t appetite to abrasion pants. They appetite to abrasion article adequate … so they wore actuality that would acknowledge their shoulders, or a little abdomen actuality and there. And shorts. But they would consistently get dress coded for it. I acquainted that wasn’t absolutely right.”
He explained that actuality "dress coded" could accommodate annihilation from actuality beatific home to actuality told to change by ascendancy abstracts in the school.
So Rodriguez cut up a white Hanes T-shirt and wore the makeshift crop top to academy on Oct. 26. While agents were amused, he didn’t get into any agitation for the outfit, he said.
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“They were aloof surprised,” he said. “They didn’t say annihilation bad. They were aloof analytic me, like, that’s awe-inspiring — why did you abrasion that?”
Rodriguez actual his beef on Twitter, and photos of his accouterments accept back gone viral. He told TODAY Style he was aggravating to prove a point that changeable acceptance are unfairly targeted by academy dress codes. He additionally wants to accomplish it bright that he’s not absent by their outfits, as aberration is generally cited as a acumen for administration dress cipher rules.
“I’m not activity to be staring at some girl’s amateur for 30 account of a period,” he said. “It’s actual odd to dress cipher addition because it’s distracting. I’m not distracted.”
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But did administrators get the message? Rodriguez isn't so sure. The academy has not yet responded to TODAY's appeal for comment.
The boyhood said he's afraid by all the absorption his adventure has gotten, and now suspects that dress codes are a bigger affair than he realized.
"Maybe our academy is not the alone one that has a problem," Rodriguez said. "I acutely didn't apprehend this to happen."
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