Recently the student body and faculty were given a survey in advisory about the dress code.

A dress code is something used in private schools all over the world . A dress code is made for the students and faculty to wear and follow so they look organized. It also makes it easier for the students to figure out what they are going to wear that day. I came from a private middle school where it was mandatory to wear a certain uniform. This uniform was to be worn every day or you would get detention or a referral. In my opinion a private school dress code isn’t a bad idea, but McKinley does not feel like that kind of school.

I feel like this school having a dress code which lets all the students express their creativity is beautiful. As a freshman I was confused because I never really wore anything besides my uniform to school. So in the beginning I felt very awkward, but at the same time I felt much more comfortable and creative. I could wear anything I wanted and not get in trouble. Well that statement is kind of true. The MHS dress code tells us, the students not to wear any distracting or clothing with suggestive or derogatory pictures, phrases, gang-related apparel, or advertising or advocates the use of illegal drugs or alcohol. That is what the dress code says in the planner, but what really is “distracting?”

In today’s society the fashion in my opinion is not really fashion at all. Some girls on campus wear revealing clothing and other girls are just rocking band T’s and Chuck Taylors. There really isn’t that much of a “fashion” trend here at all. The closest thing to a trend were those stupid chokers.

 One reason for a stronger dress code is because some clothing may be distracting for some boys. What I say to that is, it isn’t the girls or boys fault. I blame the clothing designers. They are the people who decide how everything looks and then they produce it, give it to someone famous and then boom it spreads like wildfire. Bottomline is that a new dress code is not necessary in my opinion. We can keep going as we are now, but as a student body we have a responsibility to follow the rules that this school gives us.

When I interviewed Major Corey Marlowe and asked him if he would like to see this school be given a new dress code he said, “It would all depend, if McKinley High School was issuing uniforms for free as students came in then I’m all for it. If we had uniforms then students would not have to worry about what they are going to wear. They won’t have to worry about being judged and we would know who is a student and who is not. But being that the school district doesn’t have enough money, I will have to go with no.”

Student Poll – Should our school revisit its dress code?

This article was originally published on Nov. 2, 2015. Changes in structure, information, and factual errors were made on Dec. 10 , 2015.