School dress codes

[Salty]

I am not reading an 8 page handbook. I can say that we have laws and rules. Our nation, according to our founders, was established to govern a moral people. We don't need laws and rules for everything. We need morality and common sense. All these micro managing laws and rules are not what made our nation great. They are band aids being stuck on the festering boils of our empire in demise.

It took only a moment or two for me to breeze thur that handbook. and there are several ways that the school controls the life of the students. Since you say the school should not micro manage - then you would agree that most of those rules should go out the door?

 

[Reynolds]

It took only a moment or two for me to breeze thur that handbook. and there are several ways that the school controls the life of the students. Since you say the school should not micro manage - then you would agree that most of those rules should go out the door?

I read the dress code. Its a common sense dress code. I dont have a problem with it. Pretty much says don't come to school dressed like a whore or a banger.

 

[Pete Stepanovich]

Do you believe they even drilled down enough to detail clothing... i for one do not. But I’m certain they did consern themselves with morality and decorum.

Like you, I do not believe we should be dictating (down to minute detail) apparel selections,we as the adults in the room should suggest not impose. If you have to send a kid home for some dress impropriety then do it as adults, with directness, sensitivity and being advisors (to both the child but more directly to the parents)

I had the worst experience with that in ukraine. It was before we joined Baptist community in Washington so it was a Pentecostal based system. My uniform pants I had ordered them to be like on my waist. At the time my mom was trying to tell me something too but I just didn't hear it. Ya turns out their was a while situation that unfolded cause I couldnt keep coming to school in the pair I ordered the principal had an extra pair from his 7th grader,..

 

[just-want-peace]

I personally hate dress codes because of a personal issue. In high school, we had to have our shirts tucked in. I am 6' 7". It is hard to find shirts ling enough to stay tucked in. It was nearly impossible 30 years ago. "Common sense" would be much better than formal dress code.

Agreed, except you are “taking a dangerous chance ” if you are expecting a liberal education system to to know and use “Common sense”! Don’t think it’s even in their vocabulary.

 

[robycop3]

"Dress codes" should be limited to community standards of decency, with no "suggestive" apparel worn by either gender. And that includes wearing too-tight clothes. Otherwise, it's no one else's business. As for hairstyles, there should be no restrictions except for outlandish, possibly-harmful stuff.