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The article and comments seem to be primarily focused on the racist aspects of dress codes. I just wanted to chime in and point out they are also very transphobic and queerphobic and are very often used as a way of punishing queer people. So multiple axes of oppression involved with dress codes.
Pants. Pants are gender neutral. School uniforms are also great equalizers so that students from poorer families don't feel othered by rich kids that can afford all of the latest and greatest brands. The solution is so simple. School girls don't literally have to be in skirts. Gender does not have to be reinforced in order to promote a healthy learning environment.
They're not "equalizers", no matter how many times you post this comment. Richer students will have newer and cleaner uniforms, even if they are exactly the same. Also, just talking about what presents they got for Christmas or where they went on vacation will make it obvious. Uniforms just look nice to parents.
and then the rich kid has the better phone, the cool shoes and I could go on. On top often there are different quality levels of clothes that cost different amounts of money and you can see that even if the color is the same and then you have the poorest kid that has to wear the used uniform. On top the rich kid has ten of them, so if they get dirty there is always a fresh one, the kids who had only two pants were called the "dirt kids" and stumbling and ripping your trousers - they get stitched together because buying new ones isn't going to happen until next month when Mom gets paid. You suddenly grow a lot - gratulations, now you have to wear pants that are too short for some time.
If bullying because of money vs no money is a problem at your school you will not change that by trying to make everyone look samy at a surface level, because the problem is way deeper and mostly starts with the parents and they do not wear a school uniform.
Also it is not just gender it is also body shape. I was always fatter than others. In a school uniform, skirt or pants, I was looking terrible, the joke was already made, the kids just had to laugh.
That's a brave assumption in about 1/4 of the US.