Tag: Haven School Dress Code

Is it Slut-shaming or is it A School Dress Code?

In the past five years, we have been blitzed with stories about schools whose efforts to tamp down adolescent sexuality through the enforcement of dress code guidelines end in embarrassing news fodder.  Take the tale of Miranda Larkin who, in her first week at her new high school, was forced to wear a “shame suit”... Read more »
By Juliet C. Bond,
June 5, 2015 at 5:13 am • 

The Blame Game

In 1980, we moved and I was enrolled in a new school for the six or seventh time. I was ten-years-old. According to Anea Bogue, “By the ripe old age of 9, the average girl will feel as good as she’s ever going to feel about herself.  After that, her self-esteem starts to take a... Read more »
By Juliet C. Bond,
March 1, 2015 at 8:42 am • 
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    Juliet C. Bond

    Juliet C. Bond is a writer and professor at Columbia College in Chicago. Her first book, "Sam’s Sister," was published in 2005, and has sold over 50,000 copies. She went on to collaborate with Newberry winner Joyce Sidman to publish the stage adaptation of "This is Just to Say." Juliet’s shorter works can be found in "The Prairie Wind," at storystudiochicago.com and citymusecountrymuse.com. Juliet serves as the Welcome Coordinator for The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Illinois, and has had the pleasure of working under the tutelage of award winning authors including; Jane Yolen, Jane Hamilton, Laurie Lawlor and Audrey Niffinegger. She chose the name for this space as an homage to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony whose hard work on gender equality serve as daily motivation to continue fighting for girls and women everywhere.

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