Back in the 70’s and 80’s people wore jeans as form fitting as leggings, and skinny jeans seem to be our current incarnation. Why is cotton okay but lycra not? Oh wait, I think I see the answer…
A healthy mistrust of authority figures.
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When you put it that way, maybe the school is subversively teaching their students something positive. Hay, I’m an optimist at heart.
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the dress code only discusses pants/leggings or skirts? seems to be a false binary
Cotton subsidies? XD
I don’t know. The leggings I am wearing right now are mostly cotton.
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Sometimes I wish I could have been born two or three hundred years hence, when religion will be a distant memory, like lunch counters, steamships and flip phones.
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Another false binary is why are leggings discouraged only for girls? There is no reason why any sort of dress code for schools would need to be sexist. When people accept it, they are exposing their kids to sexism at a young age, by supposed “authority figures”.
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I don’t care for leggngs for me, but more than half of my friends prefer them. I also just don’t like wearing a kilt, but I think they look great. I also hate socks.
Would the school send a Scottish boy home for wearing a kilt? Have kilts ever been a disturbance in Scottish schools? (Don’t bring up the clearances and whatnot, I know)
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I dunno about in schools, but foreigner bar patrons can’t seem to keep their hands to themselves when they see servers wearing kilts.
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If schools need to change their dress codes because the students act like they are in a bar, then they have deeper issues to contend with!!
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That’s what I said in my two previous comments. If they’re not teaching kids to respect each other, and leer at each other on their own time, then they’re not really doing a good job as educators. They’ve ignored the basic stuff in favor of stupid rules that make everyone unhappy.
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Yeah I was kinda boggling at the pictures cause pants (or suitably opaque things covering that part of the body) so why should it matter what the skirt length is really… Dear principal you are prude who needs to take that coal out of your ass before it becomes a diamond, and probably not be a principal any more.
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Two things.
- Alcohol may have been (heavily) involved.
- I completely agree with your latest comment about respect.
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She should have known better because she knew the rules. I’m not going to argue whether the rules are right or justified, but they are the current rules in place. As far as zero tolerance…I’m pretty sure a state trooper is going to give me a ticket for doing 90mph on an empty freeway at 3am just like he would if it was 1pm, regardless of the fact there were no other cars around. I was violating a law and that can come with a consequence.
My issue here is the fact she chose to “protest”…and yet decided to go the victim route. She could have waited for her parents and told the principal she wasn’t going to submit to being measured and went home. She could have went to the superintendent or school board…she could have done a lot of things, but she didn’t. Now she’s playing the role of martyr because the principal was doing his job.
And here I always thought it was about teaching them to leer respectfully…
-I’m being somewhat serious in that statement.
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I meant “get distracted by someone else’s appearance” on their own time, if you have to insist. Too bad school dress codes only ever accuse girls of being distracting to boys, never the other way around.
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Oh no, that’s what I thought you meant. I can certainly appreciate the female form without acting like a Neanderthal about it…can’t say that about some of the guys I went to high school/college/or work with…so yeah.
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When I first started my job as a high school art teacher, I was kind of irritated during the bit of our training where they covered the dresscode, when the hypothetical infracting student was invariably referred to as “she,” and we were given little 5" tall ‘measuring cards’ (basically index cards with ruler marks printed down the side) we were supposed to use to measure the distance of the skirt form the knee. As my first year went on, I also noticed that girls were disproportionately targeted by the dress code, both because it targeted gendered garb like leggings, and because in practice teachers tended to enforce it more with girls even w/r/t gender neutral garb (when male athletes and other students wear tank tops to school, they are technically in violation of the dress code, but girls are much more likely to be targeted for having their shoulders exposed).
Personally, I don’t have the time to waste instructional time policing my kids’ wardrobes, or teaching them to be ashamed of their bodies, or whatever. I’ve got, you know, actual shit to teach. Amazingly, despite the fact that I don’t write up girls for wearing tank tops or leggings, our art room hasn’t devolved into some bacchanalian disaster.
And in the unlikely event that someday a male student actually does try to claim his behavior or distraction was the result of some female student’s outfit, I’m going to hold, you know, the actual misbehaving student responsible, not the student he was ogling.
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Literally everything is creepy without consent. Especially every sexual thing. Why single out BDSM as ‘creepy’?
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