Reply #90: All schools have dress codes...

[LeahMira]

And forcing people to disavow their religious beliefs to attend school

... Some of the dress code requirements probably don't bother most students because most students dress reasonably nicely for school (or their parents make them dress nicely). Anyhow, students aren't allowed to wear torn jeans or short shorts and girls aren't allowed to wear tube tops... things like that.

We also don't allow them to wear T-shirts with certain slogans because those slogans are disruptive. When I was teaching, they couldn't wear T-shirts "advertising" religious events, like summer camps, etc., or with "Praise Jesus" or something like that either. That was for the same kind of reason that they couldn't have T-shirts with certain words on them, like "I'm so happy I could just shit." It was disruptive and drew the attention of other students, for better or worse, to the statement on the shirt instead of to the lessons.