This week, I'm calling a code on dress code in high schools. Or school, period.

I, myself, as a plus-sized girl, understand the struggles of school dress code.

Honestly, even if you aren’t plus sized and you’re just a girl, I'm sure you can understand the struggle of dress code.

For those who don’t know what dress code is--Hi, you must be new.

Dress code is, in my opinion, the most sexist thing we have implemented in American schools. Given the state of our schools, that’s saying a lot.

It’s a statement to guys that says ‘as long as a female is dressed like this, don’t victimize her. But as soon as she is dressed differently, it’s your playground.’

I know you Protective Peter’s and Paula's will say ‘but dress code is there to keep everyone at the school safe!’

And typically, I would agree, if it wasn’t cannon-firing at girls.

You won’t (typically) find a guy wearing a skirt, a bra or sandals, and these are generally the biggest issues in schools.

There are guys who come to school in tank tops but, as long as no underwear (i.e. bra) straps are showing, you can wear a tank top.

Most dress codes have an undertone saying that women showing shoulders or bra straps is distracting the young men from learning, but in the real world women will show fully exposed breast except the areola and wear sub par bras that will not support them correctly. Young men will have to learn how to deal with that.

Why not teach boys how to ignore young women’s bodies and teach them how to respect the girl for her personality and morals? Body shapes change over time and all of a person's beauty should not be found in the physical.

Now, with that said, I don't condone young girls coming to schools with bikinis on or shirts that might as well be bralettes. They should understand this is not the beach; you’re not going to the club. You're coming to get an education. ‘Looking good’ should not be your top priority.

There is nothing wrong with looking your best as long as it is within reason. Sometimes, when I see girls before school, they look more like they’re going to the club than going to get an education.

This is where you Protective Peter’s and Paula's can enter in your article about how dress code is helpful.

If we want our young men to succeed, we need to teach them to treat our young ladies like the priceless treasures they are, not the valuable assets Hollywood and reality TV make them out to be (but that’s whole other article in itself). Further, we need to teach our young women how to dress like the priceless treasures they are and not like invaluable assets.

I think that teaching our young ladies how to dress presentably and professionally, while still representing their personality, would be more valuable than making them just cover everything up. What do they learn from that?

I’m not proposing world peace or eradicating flashy dress.

All I ask is, if you’re a principal, superintendent, teacher or someone who is influential at a school, that you look over your school's dress code and see if it better protects one group over another: our young women or our young men. The changes don't have to be drastic but we, as youth, need to learn how to express ourselves through the clothes that we wear.

To see more examples of the hardship for dress code, here's a video of a working woman who tries to follow dress code a for a whole week.