School dress code

[jmattbassplaya]

You know, considering all the people in the world that are standing up, rioting, and even dying for things like a government where the people have a voice, and big concepts like equality, or even a right to an education (they're not that concerned about the actual dress code of the education), an uprising over skinny jeans just makes your 'facebook riot' look like a small pathetic plate of dumbass.

That's what happens when you already live in a 1st world country instead of a 2nd or 3rd... These sorts of outcries might seem stupid, but what else do we have to really fight for at this point? Government overhaul might be one, but that gets us into the realm of politics which we can't discuss here, unfortunately (understandably, but unfortunately).

 

[R. Laevinus]

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OTOH, I am sure that some students will find ways to tweak the system.
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Yup; a rigid dress code/uniform just allows the kids who are actually creative and different from the rest to stand out.

I went to a Catholic high school with a rigid and strictly enforced uniform code. In Grade 11 i started wearing makeup, and lots of it. (This was before every kid, their favourite rockstar, their dads and uncles, and their dogs took to wearing eyeliner.)

Admin got all kinds of huffy. I pointed out that makeup was expressly permitted in the uniform code and that there was no implied nor explicit gender restriction on it in said code.

So they changed it to state that only girls could wear makeup.

I then suggested that I could potentially be transgendered.

And they gave up, and fame was achieved.

 

[onosson]

Heck, in my school the admin forbade teachers from wearing beards. One art teacher grew hair under his chin, braided beads in it and called it a tie. The admin couldn't figure out what to do about it, so they ignored it.

Awesome!

 

[champbassist]

Also, I don't know what corners of the internet you belong to, but I could probably make a group titled "Mark Terry's most epic fart" and get 400 people "liking" it by the end of the weekend.

That is epic. Lessdoit!

 

[gnjpowell]

They should be happy they don't have to wear white shirts, black shoes and ties... Long live the dress code!

 

[R. Laevinus]

They should be happy they don't have to wear white shirts, black shoes and ties... Long live the dress code!

I vote they should be sad they don't get to. Having a uniform in school was great. I miss it. Kinda wish my work had a uniform too.

 

[JakeAndAirwaves]

So did we. Though I never understood how girls wearing (often sub knee length) uniform skirts looked any less provocative than girls in jeans/trousers. Not that I was against that

I don't really get that. Do they consider bags to be prohibitively fashionable? I'm not saying that's a bad rule by any means: I wish we had a rule like that because in elementary school, we were forced to lug 5+ kg bags full of books to school.

Because they don't know what's in them. They expect the 5th graders to be packing some major heat in their bags.

I didn't have lockers last year, but this year I do. And have this no bag thing. I prefer carrying everything in a bag, because of the hallway congestion I can't jump across campus twice in the passing period to switch books. I don't care though.

 

[hdracer]

Pencil Skirts? WTH is wrong with them?

 

[pedroims]

You are lucky, I remember my school uniform: Black shoes, gray trouser, white shirt, black tie, red sweater, long hair? forget it ! ; skin head? you bet !, tattoos they will kick your butt out of campus. In the other hand it was good for my parents, they did not need to spend too much money on clothes for me.

 

[jmattbassplaya]

Pencil Skirts? WTH is wrong with them?

 

[macaroni tony]

where?

 

[jmattbassplaya]

where?

The point I was making was that no matter what a girl is wearing high school boys are still going to be distracted just because there's a girl near them.

 

[macaroni tony]

Oh, OK. I looked hard. Trust me, I tried to find it!

 

[jmattbassplaya]

Oh, OK. I looked hard. Trust me, I tried to find it!

Oh it's there, you just have to have faith. It's kinda like believing in Santa Clause

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

It's an inherent characteristic of many schools that administrators and students alike will get huffed up over inconsequential things.

"An increasing number of students are wearing shirts with two breast pockets. It's some sort of fad, I'm sure of it. Something must be done!"

"They banned shirts with two breast pockets! It's unfair! It's just like under the Nazis!"

 

[Southpaw5]

Actually, I heard it was because the prisons wouldn't allow belts - so that inmates couldn't use them as weapons/hang themselves with them - and didn't really care too much about providing well-tailored garments.

you are correct sir, and your degree of "easy access" in prison is not something YOU get to decide. that decision is made for whether you like it or not. Whats interesting is that prison rape is predominantly an American phenomenon.

 

[Stilettoprefer]

The point I was making was that no matter what a girl is wearing high school boys are still going to be distracted just because there's a girl near them.

Maybe I'm weird, but this rarely happens to me... Maybe my school is just filled with ugly chicks haha.

 

[Fassa Albrecht]

There was a school over here who gave detentions to over 400 of its pupils for school rules infractions, including rules on uniform and jewelry.

I can't see how the OP is drastic if people know of rules and still choose to break them.

 

[Clark Dark]

...although I do admire that Sailor Moon look

not the long ribbons mind you, but the pleated skirt with necktie and jacket.

 

[colcifer]

Yup; a rigid dress code/uniform just allows the kids who are actually creative and different from the rest to stand out.

I went to a Catholic high school with a rigid and strictly enforced uniform code. In Grade 11 i started wearing makeup, and lots of it. (This was before every kid, their favourite rockstar, their dads and uncles, and their dogs took to wearing eyeliner.)

Admin got all kinds of huffy. I pointed out that makeup was expressly permitted in the uniform code and that there was no implied nor explicit gender restriction on it in said code.

So they changed it to state that only girls could wear makeup.

I then suggested that I could potentially be transgendered.

And they gave up, and fame was achieved.

Win.

The point I was making was that no matter what a girl is wearing high school boys are still going to be distracted just because there's a girl near them.

Nice save.