Dress Code Dilemma: Students Voice Concerns over Department's Strict Policy.

By Charity Olufokunbi

If there is one thing the department of Special Education is so intentional about, it is dressing. It's mandatory for all students to dress formally, students are not to leave their hair down, students are not to wear slippers, students are not to wear armless, and so on and so forth. 

The students in turn find some of these rules too difficult to uphold. You buy a beautiful gown and wear it to class and the next thing your lecturer says is "this gown is too short. If you wear it to my class again, I'll send you out of my class." There's every tendency to scream that there's nothing wrong with your dress but because of course, you want to graduate from the university, you keep mute.

Now your wardrobe is divided into clothes you wear to your departmental classes and clothes you wear to the classes in Faculty of Arts where you're borrowing from.

As long as you're going to be a student of the department of Special Education, you have to adjust to this rules because the department isn't going to adjust their rules for anyone.

It's advisable the department's stance on dressing is strictly obeyed. 

The packing of hair up, wearing of shoes or sandals, wearing of trousers and not shorts for males and other rules that have been put there are temporal. No one will stop anyone from wearing armless, putting hair down and wearing shorts when they are out of the department.

The reason for these rules on dressing is because it's the Faculty of Education and not Faculty of Arts. As it's said, we are trained no how to be Educators/Teachers. The formality and all is all about the teaching profession. 

I'll implore us to embrace these rules and not dwell too much on how conflicting it can be. This is something we can adapt to while we focus on other things that we can benefit from.