waterloos new dress code.

In public schools? Seriously? I can't imagine that will go for very long without coming up against a significant court challenge...

-JB

 

Have you been into a highschool lately? Personally think it's a good idea...I would support it if it was proposed in WSR...

 

I have been working over that way and kept hearing about it in the news. It sounds like there is a lot of people opposing it and I have a feeling it will not stand.

 

I would think just a "must wear paints at waist level" rule would be sufficient. Banning jeans all together is sort of overkill.

 

I'm just glad I don't have a daughter that would want to wear what I see on the local highschool campus!

 

I teach in both the middle and high schools around my area, and we need to do something. i have 11 year olds wearing shorts and skirts so short that u can see everything when the bend over or walk upstairs. Some of these little ladies are not even wearing panties. it is frightening. Things are out of control. Perhaps they should have a jeans or slacks rule, no more shorts or skirts, period. Trueth also is, these girls cannot go out and buy an appropriate pair of shorts. Go into any regular dept store and they ONLY sell the skimpy stuff. I feel sick seeing a 13 or even a 15 year old with tiny shorts that say "sexy" across their rump!

 

My guess is that the Waterloo school district also ran this past legal before they passed it...

 

+1
I agree that some kind of dress code should be in place to keep things within reason, but to ban jeans altogether, that's too far.   Some of those jeans that are destroyed with cuts in them all over bug me too.
Maybe a solution would be to just define what areas of the body need to be covered by clothing and leave the rest up to the kids.  They need to have some creative freedoms to be an individual, but certain core rules need to be in place.
--AJ

 

Posted By AJ on 05/25/2010 04:49 PM
I agree that some kind of dress code should be in place to keep things within reason, but to ban jeans altogether, that's too far.  
That's pretty much my point of view as well.   I'm all for addressing the real problem, but banning all blue jeans across the board seems over the top.
-JB

 

I wore jeans and concert shirts to class in high school and still managed to get good grades. I agree that some things are not appropriate and undergarments should be covered though.

 

i agree with both these statments. but where are the parents when these skimpy clad and pants that wont stay up kids are walking out the door. i know kids are sneaky but again are the parents that blind. who buys them,who washes them. if the parents think its ok the kids arent going to complain.

 

As a parent of a teenager, I can say it's hard to keep on top of what they bring into the house..you have to be diligent.  We let her go shopping at the mall with her friends and she'll buy things that she knows are not OK (like pants that are too tight, too low or overly distressed).  We really have to work hard to check her purchases and make sure that she doesn't slip something by us.  She's a very responsible kid and does her own laundry, so coming into the house is where we need to catch things.  She brings them home and we make her take them back.  Yeah, she throws a fit and says all the other kids are wearing them, but to me, that doesn't matter.  All in all, I'm pretty happy that's the worst thing we have to deal with...she's a pretty good kid. 
--AJ

 

my son gos to harding middle school in des moines and they have a dress code khaki dress pants and the school polo shirts only and they all hate it but the kids all look very nice they made two schools in des moines do it this year next year there talking about all des moines schools doing it next year

 

Posted By daalbers on 05/25/2010 09:19 PM
my son gos to harding middle school in des moines and they have a dress code khaki dress pants and the school polo shirts only and they all hate it but the kids all look very nice they made two schools in des moines do it this year next year there talking about all des moines schools doing it next year
I am very much in favor of a dress code...pants/skirts and shirts/blouses the same.  You eliminate so much if this is the way they "know" they have to dress.  Plus you don't have to figure out what to wear each day.  There are enough other times they can express any individuality they want.  I don't know why jeans are not ok but if they specifically said a certain type of pants I guess it would be ok.
Once you eliminate all the "clothing crap, kids will respond in such a positive way. 
When I went to school boys had to have shirts tucked in and they had to wear a belt.  No one could wear shorts or short tops.

 

I remember having restrictions on what could be worn at schools for seemingly no good reason (one specific thing I remember is no black with gray being allowed as it would supposedly get you shot because it may associate you with a gang). Frankly, if a kid is exposing him or herself in the clothes he/she is wearing, there is no "gray area", so I don't really see the point of overly defining a code like this. I know dressing "up" was pure misery to 90% of those forced to do so. I am sure this new code sounds just fine and dandy to the parents out there, but you should simply not buy these clothes for you kids if you are not happy with them. Unless you shelter your kids from going outside, they will be exposed to others dressing in this manner daily, so it's not like enforcing some super strict school dress code will save the kid's virgin eyes.