Douglas Anderson students protest school district’s dress code

Douglas Anderson students protestation schoolhouse district’s formal code

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Douglas Anderson School of the Arts students connected Thursday staged a protestation of the schoolhouse district’s formal codification and however it’s enforced.

Many wore signs with phrases similar “stop sexualizing minors.”

News4Jax spoke with the Douglas Anderson pupil who organized the demonstration. The student, who asked not to beryllium identified, said the conservation astir the formal codification started weeks ago.

“One of my friends, they were, like, ‘Why don’t we effort to alteration the formal code?’” the pupil said. “Because everybody, astir of my peers anyways, hold that it sexualizes young women and minors, children.”

A station was published connected societal media, calling for students to deterioration an outfit that breaches the formal codification connected Thursday.

“I saw the post, and past everybody, I guess, started sharing it,” said Douglas Anderson pupil Ausialyn Koehler. “So a batch of radical astatine my schoolhouse participated successful it, and we conscionable wore, benignant of like, messages and stuff.”

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The issue, the students say, is that the formal codification bans apparel that are deemed excessively “form-fitting” oregon “distractive” -- subjective presumption that they accidental are not enforced arsenic crossed each assemblage types.

“Because it’s not consistently enforced, and it’s not fair. It’s outdated,” said the pupil who did not privation to beryllium named. “We privation to beryllium capable to formal comfortably and explicit ourselves the mode that we are.”

The students besides accidental the formal codification prevents them from wearing apparel that would marque lukewarm Florida days much bearable.

“I consciousness similar they should alteration it a bit, conscionable truthful we tin have, like, shirts that are thinner, particularly surviving successful Florida with it being truthful hot,” Koehler said.

The different pupil said: “It’s not just that we person to deterioration specified restrictive covering successful Florida, wherever it’s ever hot.”

News4Jax was told schoolhouse unit issued a batch of formal codification violations Thursday.

News4Jax asked the schoolhouse territory for much accusation connected the concern but had not received a effect arsenic of publication.

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In St. Johns County, the schoolhouse district’s formal codification argumentation has been the root of contention for months, arsenic good arsenic the subject of a national investigation. Earlier this month, the St. Johns County School Board approved caller formal codification rules, including changes to the district’s argumentation astir the magnitude of students’ shorts.

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