Students at one Arkansas high school are tired of unfair dress code policies, so they started a new movement: “Pass The Skirt.”
Clara Mitchell, a student at Parkview Arts/Science Magnet High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, arrived at school one day in January in a plaid skirt. School officials pulled her aside for a dress code violation. Her skirt, according to officials, was way too short.
But the very next day, Clara’s friend Laura Orsi wore the exact same skirt to school as an experiment. No one said a peep. She even went out of her way to bump into the same school officials from Clara’s incident — but nothing happened.
The incident inspired Laura to start Pass The Skirt to draw attention to how discriminatory and arbitrary the dress code is. Administrators tend to target certain students, like girls of color or those with a certain body type.
“Different administrators will… have different ideas of what ‘out of dress code’ really means,” Laura told TODAY Style. “That’s the main thing that inspired me — wanting everyone to be dress coded equally and to set a good standard.”
That movement is now gaining nationwide attention.
Source : https://www.littlethings.com/pass-the-skirt-dress-code-discrimination/