Shoulders and knees have recently become a battleground. Girls have been asked to leave their school to dance because chaperones consider their dresses too “sexual” or “provocative.” Placing girls in detention or sending them home to change because of their clothing choice removes them from the learning environment and reduces their learning time. The school prioritizes a man's education over a woman's because she shows more skin. “When a school makes the decision to police the bodies of female students while turning a blind eye to the behavior of boys, it assumes for life that sexual violence is inevitable and that victims are partly to blame” (Bates). Male students are conditioned to believe that it is acceptable to sexualize a man. Proponents of school uniforms repeatedly use arguments such as: uniforms decrease violence and gang activity, uniforms remove classroom distractions, and uniforms improve academic performance, but numerous studies have proven that uniforms or capacity building. any stricter dress code leads to noticeable changes. Most of the time, only parents and administrators see the results, but it may simply be a placebo effect, in which a person claims to see changes because they expected them to. This is often seen in scientific studies where group one is given the experimental substance and group two is given a similar-looking substance in order to see if the substance is viable. School staff notice changes but students do not provide evidence that dress does not have a big impact on learning. Dress code policies are also very sexist and aimed primarily at women. This teaches boys that it's okay to sexualize girls and that it's in their nature. Girls are told it's their fault if a boy objects to them. Girls can't embrace their bodies for fear of being harassed and can't sit comfortably in a classroom on a hot day without being paranoid that they might be taken away and sent home for having exposed their shoulders. Alexi Halket, a senior at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, once said, “We just try to love our bodies and appreciate them for what they are, even with a dress code. Why would you send a woman home because men can't control themselves when they see a girl's outfit? We need to teach boys to see women as people, not sexualized.