Dress Codes: A Harmful Means of Suppression
The year was 2008. I was a timid, blissfully ignorant fifth grader entering hallways populated with kids who seemed much older and more mature than me. Despite that, we were all treated the same. In our homeroom class, we were given the rundown on what we could and couldn’t wear. While the boys had a short list of items that were off-limits, the girls had a grocery list, from not wearing...