Do tighter school dress codes help? How vulnerable are male teachers when they enforce it on scantily clad female students and does the administration back them up? Emily Richmond with the LV Sun ran the following article today. She raises the first question but does not mention the second.
Zina Wangila woke up Friday morning, pulled on a pair of her favorite jeans and headed off to class at Mojave High School. By 11 a.m. she was on her way back home, having violated the school's dress code. She had worn blue jeans.
Mojave is one of three high schools, 15 middle schools and 25 elementary schools in the Clark County School District that have adopted dress codes more strict than the district's basic wardrobe guidelines, which ban hats, bare midriffs and skimpy skirts.
Principals at an additional 18 campuses want to adopt the tougher guidelines and will find out this week whether the request has been approved by parents.
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