Students protest Duval County school district’s dress code

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Students connected Tuesday gathered successful beforehand of the Duval County Public Schools gathering to protestation the district’s formal code.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students connected Tuesday gathered successful beforehand of the Duval County Public Schools gathering to protestation the district’s formal code.

The protestation took spot astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic a Duval County School Board meeting. The students besides planned to talk during the nationalist remark information of Tuesday’s schoolhouse committee meeting.

Kennedy Murphy, a pupil astatine Stanton College Preparatory School, created an online petition calling for the schoolhouse district’s formal codification to beryllium reformed. Murphy said she thought of the thought aft proceeding different student’s story.

“She had been crying and not capable to ore successful people due to the fact that the medication had yelled astatine her truthful hard for showing her shoulders,” Murphy said. “It was a usurpation successful the formal codification she didn’t adjacent cognize existed.”

As of Tuesday, the petition had much than 1,600 signatures.

The formal code, which is successful the Code of Student Conduct, states shirts with bladed oregon nary straps are prohibited, and the students accidental they privation to extremity that rule.

The formal codification besides says: “Properly hemmed outer garments specified arsenic shorts, divided skirts, and dresses whitethorn beryllium worn, provided they are not disruptive oregon distractive, arsenic determined by the schoolhouse administration.”

Female students consciousness arsenic if these rules are targeting them.

Late past month, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts students besides staged a protest of the DCPS’ formal codification and however it’s enforced.

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. In aboriginal August, the St. Johns County School Board approved caller formal codification rules, including changes to the district’s argumentation astir the magnitude of students’ shorts.