115: Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Many dress codes unfairly target students in certain populations, doing more harm than good. Is your dress code due for an upgrade? In this episode, equity writer Coshandra Dillard helps us learn what to look for when revising dress code policy, and high school principal Marcus Campbell shares his experiences in changing his own school's dress code.

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0:00.0	This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 115 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.
0:06.0	In this episode, we're taking a close look at problems with dress codes and how you can
0:11.0	make yours better for all students.
0:16.0	A couple months ago, I saw two different news stories that broke my heart.
0:30.4	Both were about dreadlocks.
0:32.9	The first story was about Andrew Johnson, a high school wrestler in New Jersey, who wore
0:37.8	his hair in cheekbone length dreadlocks.
0:41.5	Moments before Johnson was about to go to the mat for a match.
0:45.2	The referee told him he wouldn't be allowed to compete because his hair was too long.
0:50.5	Force to choose between forfeiting the match for his team or cutting his hair on the spot.
0:56.3	Johnson opted for the haircut.
0:59.2	In the video taken at the meet, we see Johnson standing stoically while a blonde woman takes
1:05.2	a large pair of scissors and chops off hunks of his hair.
1:09.4	Hair that likely took up to a year and hours of maintenance to grow and shape into its current
1:14.1	style.
1:15.9	With the haircut finished, Johnson took to the mat and won his match.
1:21.4	The video of the incident went viral.
1:24.5	Some held up Johnson's decision as an example of being a team player, while many more expressed
1:30.9	outrage and disgust at the referee and all the other adults who let things get as far as
1:36.6	they did.
1:39.0	The second story was about Clinton Stanley, Jr.
1:42.6	A Florida six-year-old who was turned away at the door on his first day of school because
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