Review and Revise the AISD Dress Code

Also, whatever the dress code, it needs to be applied: 1. Uniformly across every student (stop looking the other way and playing favorites with popular kids) 2. Violations need discretely addressed and girls NOT body shamed by middle-ages men.

I have a one year old daughter who will attend AISD in a few years. I don't want her subjected to discriminatory body shaming dress codes.

I want my sons to learn to treat all students with respect, regardless of what they are wearing. There should not be extra standards by which the girls are subjected.

YES YES YES

Yes!

This dress code makes girls feel like sexual objects just by the wording. It ridiculously punishes girls for having legs, God forfid they distract a boy by showing their knees

Schools shouldn't be engaged in body shaming. Teach our girls empowerment and our boys how to show respect.

Remove restrictions that cause families and students undue time and money to keep up with. Students should be taught to keep themselves focused on their own education and ways to redirect their attention rather than the notion that others are responsible for existing quietly and abiding by respectability politics of race and gender norms.

Get the sexism out of our schools NOW

Girls should not be shamed. Boys need to be taught to be respectful and to Look at women as not objects.

Let's get rid of institutional discrimination!

Time has come today.

Let's do it for our kids

Dress codes = BLAH

Parent of a middle school girl.

I fully support revising the dress code to be more in line with current understanding of how biases, implicit and explicit, affect the dress code and which affect children in ways that can be harmful and discriminatory. Austin is a forward thinking city and I’m confident AISD will look to lead the way, in Texas and beyond, with a dress code that respects its students and allows for equity and freedom from unnecessary distraction.

I am a student and I don't think its fair!

What's wrong with athletic shorts? Hello?

Could also see gender-neutral, low-cost or no-cost uniforms be beneficial.

I'm a teacher in AISD, and I hate that we must police women's bodies and take our young women away from valuable instruction time. Personally, I think if the student is covered from arm-pit to below the rear-end, they are dressed to learn. I don't care if spaghetti straps or strapless occurs, I don't care if their shorts are mid-thigh. I believe that a student should respect the school and that clothing with marijuana leaves, alcohol brands, guns etc... and clothing that reveals underwear is inappropriate. But other than that, students should be able to learn in the clothing they find comfortable and expressive as they define it. I also don't care how baggy anyone's pants are, as long as the underwear is not visible (again, underwear is not outter-wear). But if they keep the undies covered, then sag away. The things that are frequently labeled "distracting" is really subjective - I personally don't find dyed hair or piercings or tattoos distracting. I don't care if a student shows up in their pajama pants. If the student is at school, ready to learn, then we should teach them. End of story.