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New dress code outlaws dresses and skirts in Texas school district [View all]
Last edited Thu Jun 23, 2022, 03:09 PM - Edit history (2)
https://www.cbs7.com/2022/06/23/new-dress-code-outlaws-dresses-skirts-texas-school-district/New dress code outlaws dresses and skirts in Texas school district
By WFAA staff
Published: Jun. 23, 2022 at 5:36 AM EDT|Updated: 10 hours ago
FORNEY, Texas (WFAA) - Clothing with hoods, dresses, skirts and skorts now all banned for students in fifth grade and higher at a Texas school district.
Its part of a new dress code that officials say will help improve the learning environment, and it has one soon-to-be sophomore fighting back.
In a few weeks Brooklynn Hollaman will dig through her closet, looking for clothes to wear on her first day of 10th grade.
We were allowed to wear dresses and skirts and skorts and everything like that, she said.
[...]
By WFAA staff
Published: Jun. 23, 2022 at 5:36 AM EDT|Updated: 10 hours ago
FORNEY, Texas (WFAA) - Clothing with hoods, dresses, skirts and skorts now all banned for students in fifth grade and higher at a Texas school district.
Its part of a new dress code that officials say will help improve the learning environment, and it has one soon-to-be sophomore fighting back.
In a few weeks Brooklynn Hollaman will dig through her closet, looking for clothes to wear on her first day of 10th grade.
We were allowed to wear dresses and skirts and skorts and everything like that, she said.
[...]
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Educators didn't do this. It was the ultra-puritans in the TX legislature that did this.
Probatim
Jun 2022
#19
We could ONLY wear dresses or skirts in school (60s). Slacks, etc., were prohibited.
Midnight Writer
Jun 2022
#5
Same here - growing up in New York and even in high school in Massachusetts in the '70s
Rhiannon12866
Jun 2022
#31
The Texas Taliban theocrats are declaring the new uniform for citizens to be seen wearing.
Ford_Prefect
Jun 2022
#25