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"Dress Coded" by Carrie Firestone, List 3

Tue Aug 30 11:31:44 EDT 2022
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Eighth-grader Molly is fed up with her school's unfair dress code policy, so she starts a podcast to protest it, sparking a rebellion.

This list covers "The Bully Box"–"The Amended Fisher Middle School Dress Code."

Here are links to our lists for the novel: List 1, List 2, List 3
adrenaline
We’re full of adrenaline and a fair amount of fear.
confidential
“Who were the several students? I have a right to know.”
“I’m going to go ahead and keep that confidential.”
vandalism
“And you’re getting detention for sneaking in and vandalizing our school.”
“I didn’t sneak in, and posters are not vandalism.”
tasteful
We look forward to a tasteful and celebratory evening.
hypochondriac
Sorry, my mom is a hypochondriac.
allot
“There’s usually time allotted for public comment at the end of each meeting. You may have an opportunity to go up to the mic and say a few words, depending on how long the meeting goes.”
forage
At my house, Liza and I forage for food and find three peanut butter energy bars, two bananas, and water.
vile
She looked at me like I was the most vile creature on earth...
steep
It’s four days away, and some parents are threatening to take their kids out because “twenty-five dollars is steep.”
furrow
Tom furrows his eyebrows, and I can’t tell if he’s confused or hurt.
advocacy
Since Dad and Danny left, Mom has been humming and baking and talking to her anti-vaping- advocacy friends and weeding the flowers and playing tug-o’-war with Tibby.
frumpy
So I dressed all frumpy the rest of the year, and everything was fine until I got sick.
dejected
We file out one by one, dejected and annoyed.
bluff
“We’re not leaving until you take our request seriously. And just so you know, the TV news will be here soon.”
Olivia is bluffing.
presume
“How do you presume we drag all these people out?” Mae Dunn asks.
earful
“Oh, for sure. I’ve stayed out of it, but I know a lot of your teachers aren’t happy about all the dress coding and body shaming that’s happening. I don’t want to step on any toes, but I get an earful at our monthly potlucks.”
coronary
“What if I can get you all a proper emergency board meeting tomorrow night? One open to the public so you all can make your case. And in return, you kids pack it up and stop giving Dr. Couchman a coronary?”
flurry
Meanwhile, I get a flurry of messages from Pearl.
stifle
ME: Dr. Couchman, Mr. Dern, the lady we call Fingertip [my friends stifle laughter], and the other dress coders have made our school very stressful.
appeal
“So we are here to listen to the comments of students from Fisher Middle School as they appeal to our board to terminate the dress code.”
midriff
No exposed midriffs will be permitted. No T-back tank tops, camisoles, or shirts with large armholes will be permitted.
mortify
Liza tells the story of her very first mortifying day at Fisher Middle School.
preposterous
A junior boy comes up and tells us that he is distracted by girls all day every day (everyone laughs), but it has nothing to do with the thickness of their shoulder straps or whether their shorts are longer than their fingertips. “That, my friends, is preposterous.”
decent
You’re being disrespectful. It’s disgusting that you kids can’t even wear decent clothes without protesting.
compelling
While all the comments were compelling, a couple of things stood out.
consistent
Next, we were especially concerned that a number of people shared stories and photographs of two or more students wearing the exact same outfit with very different outcomes. Enforcement of the dress code at Fisher Middle School was not, in fact, consistent.
deliberation
After much deliberation, we have decided with a vote of 5–2 to remove the school dress code from the FMS and FHS student handbooks.
corral
I work up a sweat trying to corral my friends for a picture.
formerly
This is Mary Kate Murphy, and I’m taking over Molly Frost’s podcast, formerly known as Dress Coded, because Molly is going to high school and we both agree Fisher could still use a podcast.
lewd
STUDENTS MAY NOT WEAR:
—CLOTHING THAT DEPICTS HATE SPEECH, PROFANITY, OR ILLEGAL, LEWD, OR VIOLENT ACTIVITY.

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