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Thursday at Jimmy Carter, students from each grade level played field games.

There were three different games played, tug of war, green light- red light, and potato stack. Students who were passing all their classes got to be a part of these games.

After all the games were played, the winners were the seniors. They got the spirit stick as their price. The juniors and sophomores were tied with 18 points each.

“I’m glad we had this field day; it was much needed. I think everyone had fun, at least I know I did,” sophomore student Aaron Rodriguez said. “Even though I fell in front of everyone, I enjoyed it.”

The principal, Claudia Gomez-Perez, from Jimmy Carter Early College High School, has implemented hallway passes to prevent students from skipping their courses. This makes it a problem for a small variety of students who have to get the hallway to give as this can cause the spread of germs.

Students want their voices heard by teachers. So, they responded to their questions; some were interviewed on the topic of dress code to share their perspectives since they’re the ones enforcing it. Both a male and female teacher were interviewed with the same questions to avoid a biased opinion.
Do you believe the dress code should be enforced?
“Yes, because let’s say eventually you go out into the real world and you go get jobs. You are not going to wear ripped jeans, you are not going to be able to go in there with T-shirts that say bad words and different kinds of things that say inappropriate things, or you might offend somebody in one way or another.” said the anonymous male teacher.
To add, he opened up the surrounding students’ eyes, many said. As many had never seen it from that point of view.
“Yes I do, because certain things are deemed inappropriate and the whole showing of stomachs and all that I do think it should be enforced.” said the anonymous female teacher.
She backed up his claim of when out in the real world, and how dressing appropriately is key.
Are boys or girls more targeted by the student dress code?
“For the most part, I think females are more target because males don’t dress as, I don’t want to say provocative but you know along the lines like low cut anything. To add, guys don’t really wear cut jeans that don’t go up that high for the most part. So, it happens that females are targeted more by dress code.” said the male teacher.
The validation of a male teacher agreeing that females are most dress coded/ targeted pleased the female students surrounding the interview. However, the female teacher shared on how it’s more targeted on girls and not how they decide to dress.
“Honestly, like they target the girls more, boys it’s very hard for them to break the dress code because you know they usually are in their jeans and t-shirts, the most I think I’ve seen the dress code breaking is like the tear of the jean being above the knee.” said the female teacher.
So, she agrees that what men are regulated to wear is less objective and specific than female wear.
What would be your dream dress code?
“I just want for everybody to be comfortable but just not to be over exposing their bodies,” said the male teacher.
They both agree that nothing should be changed as long as the students follow and feel comfortable with what they wear.
“Nothing, I think it’s perfect the way it is,” said the female teacher.
As a boy/girl, how were you affected by the student dress code?
“I never really thought about it twice. What I wore never really even got close for me to be worrying about the student dress code” said the male teacher.
Even though the male teacher had no problems with dress code in their high school years, the female teacher had something to say on the contrary.
“Okay so in high school, they don’t do that here anymore, but it used to be the tucking in of shirts, so be glad that that has been done away. But as a teacher we pretty much follow the dress code. We are allowed to wear tennis and our slacks and if we are wearing jeans we have to wear spirit shirts so you know it’s pretty much okay.” said the female teacher.
So, even though the teachers are the enforcers of the dress code, they shared their opinions which agreed with what some students have said in the previous article.
As a reader, how do you feel about their responses?

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Students at The Care Academy practice their skills learning how to do their hair

Students at The Care Academy practice their skills learning how to do their hair