October 14, 2014

Below is a letter written to the editor who wrote the article 'Enforcement of dress code creates negative effect' that your blogged about last week. Most of you wrote on your blog that you agreed with the writer. What are your thoughts after reading the letter below and seeing a different perspective. Are they the same? Are the different? Do you agree? Disagree? Explain yourself.

I think that seeing this perspective is really important and to a large extent has in fact opened my eyes. The most compelling argument that this letter makes is the fact that in the real world our employers will be holding us to a much higher standards of dress; there is a time and place for every attire. This new perspective should have been accounted for in the original article, definitely, but I do think the original author still has some reasoning. Perhaps the school board could make the reasoning behind the dress code more apparent and never simply call it a precaution to avoid "distracting the male students." I think that they way this letter frames the issue is extremely compelling because the author admits that she too dresses differently outside of school and sees some of the rules as unfair; however, she abides by them because she is a professional.As someone who strives to be a professional one day I definitely agree with this new perspective.