“Woodford County High School and the principal have been enforcing a dress code where girls cannot show even their collarbones because it may distract their male classmates”, Dunn said on Facebook.
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The mother of Stephanie Huges took pictures of her daughter and posted them online asking if her outfit was inappropriate. The district said showing her collarbone may be distracting for male students.
Though classes are barely begun in most parts of America, the battle over school dress codes has already started in Kentucky.
According to WGN News on Tuesday, a number of girls were sent home the first day of school for violating the school’s dress code. “Something needs to change!”
WTVQ reports that there is a student-made documentary about the school’s 10-year-old dress code.
Akers wasn’t at Woodford County High School when the dress code was put in place, and it’s not set in stone.
To be fair, the dress code policy of the school does state that shirts must have crew-neck collars that don’t dip below the collarbone.
Her mother, Stacie Dunn, wrote about the incident on Facebook, in a post that has been shared more than 44,000 times since it was published on August 13.
Stacie fumed: “Parents are being called away from their important jobs and students are missing important class time because they are showing their collarbones!” Something needs to change! She captioned the pic, “What did he want her to tie it like a noose around her neck!”
Stacie wrote: “So steph got sent home from school for giving the principal an attitude when he told her the scarf I brought her to cover up with was still inappropriate and she needed to fix it!”
“The whole idea behind the dress code is to make sure you have a safe learning environment and that’s what we’re trying to create”, he said. The students call the dress code enforcement unjust, discriminatory and objectifying.
As for why a collarbone is singled out, Akers says it was just used as “a point of reference” to help faculty determine if a shirt was inappropriately low.
Dunn did not respond to Today for comment. Instead, student dress codes are determined at the school level.
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Stacie posted a photo of her daughter’s outfit and explained what happened on Facebook.
