I’m also okay with broad, reasonable dress codes at school, to the point of having sporadically implemented one when I was teaching college. Students have their nights and weekends for self-expression; asking them to show up for school with their breasts tucked away and their undies not showing seems not too much to ask.

As for my kids, I have introduced them to art and print containing beautiful modest clothing. I find that they’ve all been naturally modest. I encourage it. When “why doesn’t so & so wear clothes that cover their body?” questions are asked, we talk. I also give them choices and options so they don’t feel like they are boxed in.

I didn’t really preach though — except I would tell MS/HS girls that when they’re sporting full-on aggressive cleavage some guys might not be able to notice much else; they wanted to be seen as a complete, wonderful package: heart/body/mind together.

This is a somewhat important issue to me since being “in the trenches” so to speak i see firsthand the effects of over-sexualisation of young people and how they reflect the adult world and media messages surrounding them. I often felt like a lonely voice in the darkness but at least my students were able to see/hear a different viewpoint.