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Parents, student tell Orange County board dress-code enforcement shames girls and disrupts instruction
Summary
A family nurse practitioner and an eighth-grade student urged the Orange County School Board to change dress-code enforcement at Prospect Heights Middle School, saying current practices shame girls and remove them from instruction.
Dr. Megan Lopez, a family nurse practitioner and adjunct professor, told the Orange County School Board that her daughter and other girls at Prospect Heights Middle School have been pulled from class for dress-code violations and sometimes given in-school suspension.
“While she got a warning, it was announced that dress code violations would now result in in school suspension,” Dr. Lopez said, arguing the policy and its enforcement take instructional time away from students and can harm girls’ mental health. “When we pull girls from class for dress code…
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