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Strapless dresses on middle school girls is not ok by me. Our local ISD requires three fingers of sleeve on girls tops (and shorts that reach their fingertips). For the boys it's less about a problem with covering up sufficiently and more about rules for being neat and clean. If a girl has a sleeveless dress, she'll need to wear some sort of top over it to meet the dress code. I'm perfectly ok with this. I would not want my 13/14/15 y.o. daughter to be peer-pressured towards sexualization of her attire just to meet some child-decided social code. Children don't get to make that decision in a vacuum and I get to help set minimum standards for those parents that forget they are parents. The ISD decides the code, which hopefully reflects the preferences of the local parents. That's the way it should be. I suppose since I live in the ISD, the rules should come close to resembling my beliefs/preferences. If they don't I can try to change the rules or choose not to participate.