Dress code gets a dressing down
Along with the recent addition of Mr. James Bennett, there has been an addition of a “new” Warren County High School dress code. Is this a violation of freedom of speech?
The way someone dresses and what types of clothes they wear are expressions of one’s self. When a school goes around telling me what I can wear and what I cannot wear, I cannot help but feel my rights have been violated.
Beginning on Aug. 13, we will not be able to wear certain articles of clothing that bear some slogans. This is an issue of free speech and not just personal appearance. I do not feel Warren County High School should ban any slogans unless they are libelous, obscene or somehow very disruptive. As a student, I have never found myself disrupted by what one of my peers is wearing.
When an educator has planned a 45 minute lesson, and has to take out 20 minutes of the class time to write someone up, the lesson that was planned is now shot. The students lose valuable classroom time all because a student wore the wrong shirt to school. This is what we have to look forward to this next school year.
Do you want students to lose this valuable class time? I feel the staff at Warren County High School needs to be more concerned with what they are teaching and not with what I am wearing.
The students of Warren County High School need to come together as one and rally against the school for this violation of our constitutional rights.
Thanks,
Hal Laws
591 Patton Road
McMinnville