NY Students Stage a “Slutty Wednesday” Protest [Video]

Students of New York’s Stuyvesant High School were disgusted by the school’s conservative dress code. To defy this rule, about 100 students decided to stage a protest by intentionally breaking their school’s dress standards and called it “Slutty Wednesday”.

The dress code bans girls from “exposing their shoulders, midriffs, lower backs, bras and underwear”. Lucy Greider, a 9th grade student says that she’s been taken into the office 10 times this year for violating the dress code.

Greider said:

“We work our asses off here, and school is about learning. Clothing is not important. A lot of the classrooms don’t have a/c’s and when it is 80 degrees outside and it is really hot, it’s perfectly OK to show a little skin.”

Stuyvesant High School is considered one of New York City’s top public high schools. Dress codes, particularly school uniforms are usually enforced in private schools.

According to a 2010 poll made by the National Center for Education Statistics, 57 percent of public schools enforce a dress code. While around 19 percent of public schools require school uniforms.

 

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