My Public School's Dress Code (if you need a laugh.....)

I am adressing the mom having on shorts, probably depends if its as short as my mom wore her dresses to my school!
I was so emberassed when the boys in my 7th grade class were talking about my mother and her short skirt.. she looked 'cute in it' ya but also it was way too short for a MOM!

 

The homeschool group Ems was enrolled in, up until this school year, was ran by the private school. There dress code was exactly the same. Except K-3rd grade did not have to wear a belt and were able to wear jeans until 4th. When Ems went on campus she had to adhere to these rules. We agreed to this when we enrolled her. I didn't have a problem with it. Now, in a public school, I can see a problem because the parents would have to purchase certain clothes. In a private school, the parent makes the choice by enrolling their children in this school. I think if they are going to have all these rules, they should just switch to uniforms. I do not have a problem with some hairstyles or clothing, but I do think that those that are distracting should not be allowed.

 

I don't think it's the place of the school to tell the students what they should wear and what they shouldn't. They have strayed far from the path of education. I was an associate prof at a community college for two semesters before I returned back to industry and from my experience dress code does not make a difference in grades nor conduct(since most colleges do not have a dress code). I think it would be much more effective for the schools to remove the real distractions from the classroom. By real distractions I mean bullying, class clowns, and anything which directly effects the surrounding students. Directly, is the key word, short skirts and long hair don't directly distract students.

 

(stands up and applauds!)

Yes! Why is attire an issue when bullying effects so many children and administrators stand by and do nothing? Many suicides and school shootings are the direct result of years of bullying. Not one school shooter ever did it because someone had pink hair.

 

This is were I differ. College students fall in a completely different catagory than minors in a public school system. Personally, I see a big distraction for young hormonal boys when a girl is wearing no bra with a white top or when a girl in a tube top wears a pushup bra. I personally see why a boy would be distracted by a girl wearing a thong that reveals her fanny when she sits down because her pants are so low. Now granted, this is just me. I personally think it is tacky. I remember a guy in high school who used to wear extremely tight biker shorts without underwear. He might as well have come to school naked becasue his shape, if you get my drift, was extremely noticable. Again, to me this was distracting.

 

Something else popped into my mind. The school district over has tried placing all boys in a class and all girls in another. They noticed a huge rise in the grades of the boys this year because they do not have the distraction of the girls. The girls grades have risen as well but the noticable difference was in the boys grades.

 

Some schools have dress codes or even uniforms so the kids aren't distracted by the latest fashion or picking on the poor kid that can't afford the latest fashion. When I was in high school there was a lot of bullying against kids that weren't fashion queens. I always wore the latest fashion and never got picked on, but saw the poor kids that didn't have hip clothes were treated so poorly. Our school thought about going to uniforms so there wouldn't be that distraction.

 

Eew!

There was a guy in high school that asked me out. He showed up in swimming class wearing a Speedo, that was more than I wanted to see. Everyone else was wearing more conservative bathing suits.

 

In our city the schools had parents vote, and they voted for uniforms, it turns out uniforms pants are like less than 20 dollars each as apposed to 30 dollars for some of the clothes the people here were spending on thier kids name brands and such, I think that is a lot of the inflence, the kids do not look any different if they are rich or poor, and our city is very mixed

 

I think uniforms would be a great thing. I hated seeing the poor kids get picked on in school too. I would stick up form them all the time.

And I agree with Patty that hormonal boys do not need to see butt crack and breasts! I just think a little common sense on the part of these administrators wouldn't hurt. My problem still lies mainly with the hair and piercing issue.

 

Oh and I am in total agreement with boys needing to wear belts!

Some kids with the pants down to the ankles and they can't even walk right! Man oh man! They may as well put a sticker on their foreheads that says "Look at me I'm an idiot!"

 

Perfectly stated.

In my experience, the poor kids were tormented/bullied because they could not afford fashionable clothes. I knew one girl who actually developed stomach problems because she would be treated so badly and she had so much stress from being bullyed.

 

I think pierced ears would be acceptable, if done tastefully for school kids, and the hair stuff coloring is okay for fun,

 

If the parents are okay with piercings or hair coloring then the school should be too. I'm not saying I'd let my teen get anything pierced or color her hair pink but if I did then it should be okay and the school shouldnt' have a say in that.

 

To me that is an avoidable distraction. You just have to look the other way. But when a student is mocking the teacher and pushing others into a locker that's a big distraction. I was very young going through highschool because I graduated four years early. I was a very easy target. The actions the admin took to take care of the bullying was very insufficent. Yet they would crack down on dress code violations like the students were hardened crimimals. Well only on the students who they didn't like.

 

I agree that bullies are a problem and a distraction in our school system. Nonetheless, I still believe that certain clothing or lack of are also distracting. I also believe that minors do not have the self control that an adult has. Given the influences that are showered upon our youth in our society, it is no wonder they struggle with these issues.
I am sorry you had such a horrible time in school. Still, I think they both need to be dealt with accordingly.

 

My older three attended a ps that tried the uniform route. It is a good idea in theory but they were not allowed to enforce the rule unless they offered free uniforms to the children who could not afford them. A large percentage of the school was children coming out of low-income housing and the parent's just couldn't afford them.

 

If my memory serves me correctly, when our older daughter was in elementary school, the school tried to enforce a dress code. If the parents couldn't afford certain clothing, the school had scholarships to help the parents. The dress code didn't last long.

 

A friend of mine had kids in a school that required uniforms. She said the uniforms cost less than regular clothes which she would have had to purchase anyway even though she was considered low income.

 

What I liked about the dress code was that we bought our daughter three different outfits that fit the requirement. These lasted her the rest of the year. We never worried about what she was going to wear and she was able to mix and match. The next school year, the dress code was dropped but she still wore the outfits.