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A Female Student Was Suspended for Wearing Jeans That Exposed Her Knee

A mother from Palm Beach County, Florida called out the county's school board after her daughter was allegedly pulled out of class in the middle of a quiz and given an in-school suspension for a dress code violation.
Melissa McKinlay, who also happens to be the mayor of Palm Beach County, took to Facebook last week to share her daughter's story and an image of the distressed denim jeans that a school official allegedly claimed violated the school's dress code because it exposed the student's knee, according to the Palm Beach Post.
In Melissa's Facebook post, she says that her daughter was approached last Thursday about the hole in her jeans in the middle of a history quiz.
"A male administrator came to classroom, told her she needed to consider the guys in her class and their hormones when choosing her wardrobe, yanked her out of class and threw her into In School Suspension for the remainder of the day," wrote Melissa.
The mother alleged that as a result of this dress code violation and subsequent suspension, her daughter missed an entire day of classes and was unable to complete her quiz.

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A Student Was Sent to Juvenile Detention for Violating Her School Dress Code

A 15-year-old Kentucky high school student was arrested and confined to a juvenile detention center for six days for allegedly assaulting a school resource officer during a dispute over a dress code violation.
Hopkinsville High School student Isabella Messer was allegedly approached by the officer for wearing a t-shirt that stated: “Do my shoulders turn you on? If so, return to the 1920's." in protest of her school’s dress code policy, reports INSIDER.
According INSIDER, the arrest took place on August 23 after the principal approached her about the message on her shirt. A police report obtained by the Lexington Herald Leader described Isabella as being uncooperative and loud during her interaction with the principal.
This is what allegedly led the school's resource officer to cuff her, which according to the police report, she physically attempted to resist.
Later when Isabella was handcuffed, the officer allegedly attempted to remove her phone from her hands. Based on details from the report, this is when the student allegedly kicked the officer in the shin.
Isabella's mom, Theresa Rucks, alleges Isabella only reacted physically out of self-defense.

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A California High School Creates an Anti-Dress Code for Students

Restrictive school dress codes are often used to unfairly target female students, students of color, and people who religious attire like hijab. There have been countless examples of administrations throughout the United States weaponizing these policies to police their student's bodies and wardrobes.

This week the Chicago Sun reports that one school district in Alameda, California is trying to change how the policies affect students. The Alameda Unified School District created an anti-dress code policy heading into the new year that makes strides to both allow students to wear what they want, and make certain things they can't wear very clear. In a press release Steven Fong, AUSD’s Chief Academic Officer said, “We believe these changes will reduce inequitable and unnecessary discipline and help us maximize learning time."

The policy starts by stating what students are required to wear using general terms and not specifying the type of clothing the need to wear. It states, "students must wear: bottoms, tops, shoes and clothing that covers genitals, buttocks and areolae/nipples with opaque material." It goes on to list the items that students can wear, and they include the very things that have lead to issues in other school's policies. It says, "students can wear: hats, including religious headwear, hoodie sweatshirts (overhead is allowed) fitted pants, including leggings, yoga pants, and “skinny jeans”, sweatpants, shorts, skirts, dresses, pants, midriff-baring shirts, pajamas, ripped jeans, as long as underwear is not exposed, tank tops, including spaghetti straps, halter tops and “tube” (strapless) tops."

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A Black Student Was Reportedly Sent Home from School for Wearing Box Braids

A Louisiana elementary-school student was reportedly sent home from school for wearing a braided hairstyle that school administrators allegedly deemed in violation of the dress-code policy.
A video of the unnamed female student crying during the incident was posted on Twitter earlier today by writer and activist Shaun King, and it has sparked significant outrage.
According to New Orleans CBS affiliate 4 WWL, the incident took place at Christ the King Elementary School in Terrytown, Louisiana.
In the video, an administrator is heard explaining that the student was not the only one facing discipline because of her hairstyle.

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