Nick S. answered 04/21/21
High School English Teacher with 4+ years of experience
The idea that school uniforms are designed to "help" students not become distracted by their classmates has a very disturbing message. The most common message being: it is up to a women to dress a certain way so boys do not have a hard time "staying focused". People should be expected to be responsible for their own behavior. However, in the aforementioned dress-code example, the onus is placed on the female student, who should not –– and cannot –– be responsible for the behavior of someone else. This is analogous to the same ludicrous rhetoric that fault somehow lies on victim's for an assault, because of the way they were dressed. Therefore, this idea that students should be responsible for other people's behavior, enforced via a dress-code, perpetuates rape-culture. The "reasoning" is upsettingly too close.