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Texas school bans hoodies, dresses, skirts, and t-shirts! What!

FurriesRock

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Wow, the crazy and stupid in 2022 just keeps on coming!

"The second major dress code update, which applies only to older students, bans dresses, skirts and skorts from students older than the fourth grade...

The dress code also forbids T-shirts, striped shirts and denim pants, as noted in the full policy shared online."

I understand dress codes, but this is ridiculous and stupid.

What is wrong with these people! Do they just look at children as if they're prey, or weaker people they can control?

No more hoodies — and no dresses for older students — allowed in Texas school district

In a district video announcing the changes, a female student says she will follow the updated dress code.
www.yahoo.com
 
I am about some kind of dress code but this is pretty extreme.

The dress code also forbids T-shirts, striped shirts and denim pants, as noted in the full policy shared online.
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Not a lot of parents can just suddenly be able to afford a new wardrobe for their kid(s) over the summer but the district seems lives in some alternate reality where some kid who can only afford one "nice" outfit and has to re-wear it multiple times a week won't get bullied without realizing it actually builds more socio-economic differences among students.


Bullshit priveledged bubble thinking.
 
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I feel like they're trying to enforce some cultural idea that the administrators believe in, and they don't care about how it will affect the students or the student's families.
 
FurriesRock said:
I feel like they're trying to enforce some cultural idea that the administrators believe in, and they don't care about how it will affect the students or the student's families.
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It's exactly what they are doing. The superintendent makes $255,339 a year! What exactly is he going to know about the struggles some people have to afford clothes.

Forney ISD Superintendent Salary

The District shall pay the Superintendent an annual salary of Two Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine AND NO/100 Dollars ($255,339.00).
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Good for that school. It's about time we take control.
 
Howbout long hair hanging in front of your face, hiding it like would a hoodie?

To think there was a time when girls wearing pants were not allowed. Had to wear skirts and dresses. You've come a long way, baby...
 
Once again I will say it, republicans don't govern, they rule.
 
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Lovebug said:
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I get it but those are professional adults who have jobs and are not reliant upon someone else to fund their career choice dress code.

Making a very strict dress code in school district where minors are dependent upon their parents for clothes will not bridge socio-economic differences among students and promote positive behavior. It will make it worse.
 
I am having trouble with stripes and denim. What's up with that?
 
americanwoman said:
That's what I am saying. I am okay with a reasonable dress code but this one seems extreme.
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I'm trying to understand the thinking behind banning dresses for girls. Care to take a guess?
 
americanwoman said:
That's what I am saying. I am okay with a reasonable dress code but this one seems extreme.
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Neither of those things are acceptable in most Philadelphia public schools either. Those dress codes have been around forever.

The reason denim is typically not allowed is because some jeans can literally cost several hundred dollars.
 
americanwoman said:
Some are too short? Thighs are distracting? I have no idea.

I never see any kids in school in dresses except maybe picture day.
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Too short was a problem even when I was in school. Ditto spaghetti straps and etc. But what about the kids whose religious denom frowns on trousers for women/girls?
 
Lovebug said:
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I’ve seen many welders, the only commonality is the helmet.

We live in a rural area with incomes all across the spectrum. Some clothes that parents send their kids to school in are inappropriate, imo. But then my frame of reference is way out-dated.
 
nota bene said:
I'm trying to understand the thinking behind banning dresses for girls. Care to take a guess?
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Some dresses can be rather revealing. Perhaps rather than making it subjective, an outright ban is easier to enforce. I was a lost on the skirt ban.
 
Rawley said:
Some dresses can be rather revealing. Perhaps rather than making it subjective, an outright ban is easier to enforce. I was a lost on the skirt ban.
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Other garments can also be revealing. Pants can show whale-tails or ass cracks, and shirts can show boobs. Or moobs, to be excruciatingly fair.
 
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