To protest the school's new dress code, students at Stuyvesant High School in New York City took a stand against the administration. Last week, nearly 100 students participated in a student-organized "Slutty Wednesday" protest.
The students- both boy and girls took to the streets of lower Manhattan in revealing clothing, with flyers that read, "Redress the Dress Code."
It still remains to be scene if the protest was a success.
The much discussed dress code bans the exposure of midriffs, visible underwear, shoulders and lower backs, and mandated that the hemlines of all shorts, skirts and dresses fall below the line of the fingertips. It also prohibits students from wearing articles of clothing with images or words deemed inappropriate.
Freshman Lucy Greider, who claims that she’s been sent to the office 10 times this year for dress code violations, told the New York Post: “We work our a**es off here and school is about learning. Clothing is not important."
The administration has a different perspective on the matter. Principal Stanley Teitel told a student resporter from the Stuyvesant Spectator that the new dress code was put into place because students were wearing inappropriate clothing to school last fall.
Stanley Teitel
“The bottom line is, some things are a distraction," said Teitel. "And we don’t need to distract students from what is supposed to be going on here, which is learning.”
The students at this school are above-average students and do well on standardized tests, they didn't appear to be too distracted.
Maybe it was the teachers and staff that were distracted.
If nothing else, it gives us another reason to call Wednesday, "Hump Day."