Every school year, everything seems to change.

The size of your class, your classmates, your teacher, everything except one thing: dress code. The dress code is always the same for women. No spaghetti straps, no shorts above the knee, no shirts that reveal your boobs (cause us women can control that, right?) and they only say no because it’s “too distracting”.

Too distracting to who really? Too distracting for teachers? Too distracting for guys in the class or hallway? But us women get punished for distraction, which makes no sense. Maybe schools should punish the ones who get “distracted”. Like teaching them us women are not a piece of meat. We don’t ask for fashion lines to make the clothes we buy and we definitely don’t feel comfortable in baggy clothes like the majority of guys do.

I understand schools have dress codes to teach students how to dress semi-professionally or to be yourself but as soon as someone sees one bra strap slide down (yes, it happens.) everyone goes crazy and says “SHES DISTRACTING ME!” It’s just a bra strap. Totally adjustable. There’s no need for me to get suspended over one tiny piece of cloth falling below my shirt.

So is there really a need to say “make the dress code equal”? Not really. It’s still going to be the same concept no matter if the school makes the students wear uniforms or not. But don’t worry kids, in college, no dress code will ever matter (unless you have a presentation or a scholarship interview), because you’ll be too busy trying to figure out if you have time to eat before a class without being late to that class.