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"GHS Body Shames" Students Protest Arbitrary Enforcement of Dress Code

Want to wear that fun bandeau top under a sheer blouse to GHS? Want to wear shorts or a skirt paired with a crop top and exposure your midriff? A group of about 60 GHS students respect their peers' right to dress as they see fit, and take issue with administrators' seeming random enforcement of the dress code depending on the alleged offender's body shape.

According to former Patch "He Said-She Said"  columnist Ella Dawson, blogging for the Feminist Press Tumblr about the "GHS Body Shames" protest"Patrice DiChristina, a junior at Greenwich High, was wearing a crop top and a high-waisted skirt when three different administrators approached her over the course of the school day...one school administrator warned her if she had to speak to her again, she would take 'further measures,' which DiChristina assumed to mean detention," said Dawson in the Fem Press post.

According to Dawson's post, GHS junior Patrice DiChristina and her sister Grace, also a GHS student, organized a protest against the arbitrary enforcement of school's dress code, which gives staff leeway as to when and to whom the "code" is enforced. Indeed, according to the post, about 60 GHS students, including several boys, wore T-shirts bearing the slogan "GHS body shames" to school.


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