The administration finally backed down and scrapped those ridiculous dress code restrictions. All 439 of us forced them to stop policing our clothes and let us focus on actual learning. Keep your guard up because we are watching to make sure they do not try to find new ways to …
September 12, 2019
Final supporters
Recently, at Hanover Central High School, dress code regulations have been strictly enforced and are leaving students feeling upset, objectified, and frustrated. What one wears is to make themselves feel confident and ready for the day and should not be restricted to such harsh measures. Students wearing ripped jeans, headbands/scrunchies with ties, baggy clothing, leggings, and shorts are being reprimanded which causes more of a distraction to their education than their clothing itself. Please sign this petition if you believe our dress code should be less strict and more open minded.
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August 22, 2019
We just hit 250 signatures and the administration still refuses to even acknowledge our frustration. It is pathetic that they prioritize measuring skirt lengths over actually teaching us in class.
Reached 250 supporters
August 20, 2019
Reached 100 supporters
August 19, 2019
August 17, 2019
The administration at Hanover Central is still ignoring our frustration while they police our clothes instead of focusing on our actual education. We are almost at one hundred signatures so push this link out right now to force their hands.
86 Comments
As a girl of Hanover, who dresses in ripped jeans and a sweatshirt most of the time, being dress coded for my jeans being to “revealing” was a huge slap to me. That’s why i support this 100%. Watching girl after girl get dress coded for trying to dress comfortably was so sad to me. You know you messed up when the FOOTBALL TEAM is getting dress coded for their shorts. We need to do better at this.
I graduated from Hanover in 1990 and they never sent girls home for this . If there gonna go to this extreme why not send boys home for wearing saggy pants or there underwear hanging out . How about uniforms ? What is wrong with headbands and scrunches ?
I respect the dress code usually but some of the rules seem a little questionable. Like as a student athlete we like to wear nike tie headbands or even sweatpants or leggings and a hoodie. But we can’t since mike headbands and baggy pants are gang affiliated now
My upper thighs and my shoulders should not be viewed as a distraction to learning. Ripping me out of class to reprimand me over my choice of ripped jeans or sweatpants is a distraction to my education.
The way the are handling this it’s just ridiculous especially handing out green T-shirts in the cafeteria and making People feel bad because you called them out in Front of everyone in the cafeteria in the morning that was just disrespectful .
It’s bullcrap
the dress code is very sexist. every rule that they stress is said towards girls. over the announcements they said “no butts no boobs no stomachs.” that is specifically targeted at the girls. they don’t stress no sagging pants and barely dress code boys as it is. telling a girl she needs to “respect herself more” because of how she dresses aligns with people believing that girls put sexual harassment on themselves because of how they dress. How i dress should not be distracting to boys or less respectful to myself. Everyone expresses themselves in different ways and you are belittling girls and destroying their self confidence. we come to school in what we wear because we feel good and comfortable in it. We are not in a private school. we are not a religious school. we are a public school so why are we being treated as if we are not? crown point and lc both don’t have strict dress codes and those boys are still getting an education and are still graduating just the same. why is their education more important than mine? this is the main question that should be addressed.
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The administration finally backed down and scrapped those ridiculous dress code restrictions. All 439 of us forced them to stop policing our clothes and let us focus on actual learning. Keep your guard up because we are watching to make sure they do not try to find new ways to …
September 12, 2019
Final supporters
Recently, at Hanover Central High School, dress code regulations have been strictly enforced and are leaving students feeling upset, objectified, and frustrated. What one wears is to make themselves feel confident and ready for the day and should not be restricted to such harsh measures. Students wearing ripped jeans, headbands/scrunchies with ties, baggy clothing, leggings, and shorts are being reprimanded which causes more of a distraction to their education than their clothing itself. Please sign this petition if you believe our dress code should be less strict and more open minded.
Updates
August 22, 2019
We just hit 250 signatures and the administration still refuses to even acknowledge our frustration. It is pathetic that they prioritize measuring skirt lengths over actually teaching us in class.
Reached 250 supporters
August 20, 2019
Reached 100 supporters
August 19, 2019
August 17, 2019
The administration at Hanover Central is still ignoring our frustration while they police our clothes instead of focusing on our actual education. We are almost at one hundred signatures so push this link out right now to force their hands.
86 Comments
It is just as important for girls to feel high self-esteem as it is for boys to work in a non-distraction environment. If the rules have been changed at Hanover or are being enforced more strictly then there should be notification to students and parents and a period of time of some leniency and mutual understanding and adapting before applying harsh and severe penalties.
As a girl of Hanover, who dresses in ripped jeans and a sweatshirt most of the time, being dress coded for my jeans being to “revealing” was a huge slap to me. That’s why i support this 100%. Watching girl after girl get dress coded for trying to dress comfortably was so sad to me. You know you messed up when the FOOTBALL TEAM is getting dress coded for their shorts. We need to do better at this.
I graduated from Hanover in 1990 and they never sent girls home for this . If there gonna go to this extreme why not send boys home for wearing saggy pants or there underwear hanging out . How about uniforms ? What is wrong with headbands and scrunches ?
I respect the dress code usually but some of the rules seem a little questionable. Like as a student athlete we like to wear nike tie headbands or even sweatpants or leggings and a hoodie. But we can’t since mike headbands and baggy pants are gang affiliated now
My upper thighs and my shoulders should not be viewed as a distraction to learning. Ripping me out of class to reprimand me over my choice of ripped jeans or sweatpants is a distraction to my education.
The way the are handling this it’s just ridiculous especially handing out green T-shirts in the cafeteria and making People feel bad because you called them out in Front of everyone in the cafeteria in the morning that was just disrespectful .
It’s bullcrap
the dress code is very sexist. every rule that they stress is said towards girls. over the announcements they said “no butts no boobs no stomachs.” that is specifically targeted at the girls. they don’t stress no sagging pants and barely dress code boys as it is. telling a girl she needs to “respect herself more” because of how she dresses aligns with people believing that girls put sexual harassment on themselves because of how they dress. How i dress should not be distracting to boys or less respectful to myself. Everyone expresses themselves in different ways and you are belittling girls and destroying their self confidence. we come to school in what we wear because we feel good and comfortable in it. We are not in a private school. we are not a religious school. we are a public school so why are we being treated as if we are not? crown point and lc both don’t have strict dress codes and those boys are still getting an education and are still graduating just the same. why is their education more important than mine? this is the main question that should be addressed.
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It is just as important for girls to feel high self-esteem as it is for boys to work in a non-distraction environment. If the rules have been changed at Hanover or are being enforced more strictly then there should be notification to students and parents and a period of time of some leniency and mutual understanding and adapting before applying harsh and severe penalties.