THIS AIN'T THE SUMMER OF LOVE
SCHOOLSMy how times have changed! I won't even start on some of my school-aged exploits! Here's the new Parsons High dress policy.
DRESS:
Personal appearance should not disrupt the educational process, violate federal, state, or local health or obscenity laws, or affect the welfare and safety of the student or his/her classmates.
Specific dress rules include:
1. Sexually suggestive/ double meaning clothing will not be permitted.
2. Clothing advertising drugs, alcohol, tobacco, firearms or with profanity will not be permitted.
3. Abbreviated tops (halter, tube, or shortened shirt), muscle shirts or spaghetti straps will not be permitted. Tank tops must have two inch or wider seams on shoulders.
4. No bare midriffs. Midriffs will be covered in the sitting and standing position.
5. Hats, caps, or headgear are not to be worn in school.
6. Clothing may not be cut or altered from original state.
7. Shorts or skirts will minimally be mid-thigh length.
8. Spandex or skintight materials are not permitted.
9. Pants and shorts must cover undergarments and buttocks. Excessive sagging of the pant is not permitted.
10. Chains or studded collars will not be permitted.
11. Shirts or tops must be no longer than finger tip length. Modest necklines are expected. Method for checking neckline: When the hand is placed at the neckline parallel to the ground with the thumb touching the base of the Adam’s Apple, the neckline will not exceed the width of the hand.
If there is a question as to whether an article of clothing is appropriate, don’t wear it!Students who violate the school dress code will be asked to change. Continued violation of dress code will result in a non-compliance discipline referral.
There's going to be some hoppin' mad parents when they have to leave work to have little Suzy change her shirt because it doesn't hug her neck.
There are some safety issues at work here, too. Some are obvious; some are not. For example, I hated my high school dress code that required shirts be tucked in at all times. Due to my long-waistedness, this was always an issue. Now, I see why; not only for safety in shop class, but in today's world, harder to conceal a weapon under the long-tailed shirt worn outside the trousers.
I wish the new administrators well. A tip, if they are listening (reading). Get the faculty to come to enforcement for the first three weeks of school. Consistent, constant enforcement during that period will, by and large, take care of many problems for the rest of the school year. And, I might add, administrators, be prepared to spend a whole lot of time being fashion police early in the year. (Based upon observation when dress codes are tightened)
I know there has been debate by some not very "liberal" in attitude concerning those of Muslim faith whether the no headgear requirement should also be invoked concerning the head scarves worn by those of such faith; naturally, those who think all Muslims are, by definition, terrorists, believe it does. Interestingly, no one of that ilk objected to the wearing of a yarmulke by a young man who was an Orthodox Jew...
We "dressed" for school. Nice sweaters & skirts, dresses. Guys wore pressed, looked-like-new jeans or twill(?) pants with button-down shirts or sweaters. T-shirts and sweatshirts were for after school, if we even had them. I've often thought that when the dress code was softened in the 70's, it had an affect on learning. Dress sloppy and you start to not care. My opinon only, of course.
On an even more personal note, I was "sent home" for wearing a skirt that was too short the last day of my junior year. The principal said he had no problem with it, but a teacher or two had complained. (It really wasn't that short.) I lived across the street, so no problem. There were four of us that were nabbed. We planned it that way. One friend simply ripped out the false hem she put in. >g<
I was smarter the next year. Wore cullottes and barely made it in the door before I was stopped and told to go home. Instead, I slipped into the girls' locker room and changed into the skirt I'd brought along. That's the extent of my high school rebellion.
Speaking of rebellion, the young women in my class our Senior Year all conspired, rolled up the waistbands of their skirts one day, under the (as it proved to be false) presumption there was no way they would all be sent to detention. WRONG. There were four detention rooms that evening, as I recall; so much for rebellion.
Once the National Merit people made their error, I got away with a lot; didn't take too much advantage of it, though, just once or twice violated the "no physical contact between members of the opposite sex" rule with no reprecussions, much to the delight of the two young women who had volunteered to be my accomplices. >very knowing grin<
There is a fear, and/or gang problem.
It comes with the black community and the cocaine that gangs bring in from the bigger cities.
There is gang sign (graffitti) on block from my home.
Over the last few years, the law has all but wiped out the meth production among the whities, just can't get a handle on the imports!
We are a well integrated town though.
Really not much problem between black/white.
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