Originally published at: Texas school bans black clothing
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Are people really this stupid to believe that’s how depression happens? Like, WTAF?
Also, the 90s called… they’d like their target for moral panics back…
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I might have found the problem…
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JFC if you transported my teen me to Texas now I’d be shot in front of an official state firing squad.
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They should also ban bandages, bandaids, and casts, as they have all been associated with personal injury.
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It’s probably good that most middle schools don’t have much of a stats curriculum; because it would be really hard to teach the subject in one where a petty tyrant from admin has decreed that correlation and causation are equals.
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At least half of my shirts are black and when I was in college the number was over 90%. I absolutely wore them with black shorts and pants sometimes. I still do!
In HS I wanted a black trench coat so bad, but ended up with a dark blue one. Fuck these god damn idiots.
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As stupid and offensive as this is on its own, I’m half-expecting it was actually an attempt at some overtly racist policy that got garbled in translation.
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I’m mostly doing well these days, but I’ve had some really deep depression episodes over the last 12 years and signs of it going back several decades. Depression is something I have, it’s a part of me, and isn’t caused by clothes, black or otherwise.
I do wear some styles or colors that help me maintain a better mood, but my favorite outfits can’t mitigate an episode nor can wearing anything else that I selected cause an episode. I will absolutely concede that clothing can have an effect on my mood, which is why I don’t present masculine anymore, but again: that’s not a cause. I suspect this principal wouldn’t care for my approach to clothing, for some odd reason.
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Not El Paso, but Austin:
At the start of 1992, police took the route of questioning local “Satanists” and anyone dressed in black and accused many people of being part of a cult.
Spoiler alert:
It didn’t solve anything
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right!? they also banned piercings. not jewelry, but piercings. i really wonder how that’s going to work… we’ll just ah suture that up for you before class. 
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That was my school uniform in the UK, at a CofE school.
OK, the shirt or blouse was white, but the rest of it? Black, from neck to toe.
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Sounds like they have a dress code so restrictive, they’re practically doing school uniforms, and it’s generally pretty silly and authoritarian (e.g. highly restrictive on colors and designs and banning many types of clothing with pockets because students could have “inappropriate” objects in the pockets, etc.). So this ban on black is seemingly already restricted to one day a week when they can dress more freely, and during gym class, where they have to wear the school colors, one of which appears, ironically, to be black. So basically this is a lot of bullshit.
Still, as a student, I’d be so tempted to push the limits. “I’m not wearing all black. The label said ‘charcoal grey’!”
Yeah, my initial assumption was that this was some continuation of the post-Columbine panic where schools were banning students for anything that reminded people of the shooters - black clothes, trench coats, being the victim of bullying… and reading the dress code, I’m not entirely sure that wasn’t at least part of the real reason here.
I’ll bet other parts of the dress code have that covered…
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