In nearly every school in Minnesota,

America, and yes, even

the world, the administration

enforces the dress code policy

at the dismay of the disgruntled

students. So, what is the big

deal? Under the surface of Cannon

Falls High School, a notion

brews.

The goal of this dress code

argument is not to turn CFHS

into a nudist colony, nor is it to

duplicate the millions of other

complaints heard across the

world, the objective is merely to

recognize the frank sexism of

this theory.

Certain unidentifi ed faculty

members argue that the dress

code should be enforced because

male students are being

distracted. Why are they being

distracted? Apparently the fi nger

can be pointed at female

students. Sounds familiar.First of all, blaming even

modest spaghetti strap tank tops

or halter tops for a lack of focus

in the classroom completely

undermines the fact that, female

students are equally as “distracted”

by male attention. There, it

is out on the table. However, for

some reason, female students

are not being targeted as being

easily sidetracked. This leads

to the next problem with this

idea.

Is it fair to assume that males

are so distracted by their hormones

that they can no longer

be considered fi t to pass a class?

Absolutely not.

Male students and female students

have excelled throughout

time, so perhaps the unfocused

classroom does not rest in the

hands of a seductress female

student, whose only aim is to

distract the males, so that she

can fi nally bump herself up a

couple notches in class rank.