Austin allowing more skin in the schools

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AISD is proposing a dress code overhaul, after hundreds of parents signed a petition claiming the district’s current dress code is sexist and racist.

The petition reads in part:

“The current district dress code does not uphold the AISD values of equity, diversity, and inclusion. It contains vague language, arbitrary restrictions, and emphasizes bans on clothing that are primarily worn by females and minorities. It also allows for individual schools to create additional restrictions, which leads to further inequality across our district.”

In response, the school district drafted a potential new dress code that would do away of many of the current dress code restrictions.

Under the proposed new dress code, students would be allowed to wear hats, sweatshirts with hoods up, athletic wear and even pajamas. Specifically for girls, spaghetti straps, tank tops, halter tops and shorts and skirts of any length, as long as the buttocks are covered, would be permitted. The draft says bra straps and underwear waistbands could also show under the new rules.

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However, cleavage should not have coverage requirements.

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