high school dress code

[Narakou]

Hey Narakou here,
I'm having trouble at my high school. The kids sometimes wear shirts that have things. One kid had on a corona beer t-shirt on. All it had was the logo and a girl. When I saw him at lunch, it was inside out. I think that what the principal does to us is wrong and also sensorship. What do you guys think? Thanks, Narakou

[Raina]

[COLOR=Navy]Hello! This is my first time posting!!! :D
Anyway... I think your principal was cruel to a certain extent, but look, you don't have to wear a school uniform like I do. So stop complaining and stop taking advantage of not wearing a school uniform! There are plenty of things to wear in the world. The kid at your school can wear the beer shirt after school! But making the kid wear the shirt inside out is embarassing...[/COLOR]

[Guest ScirosDarkblade]

Well, unreasonable censorship as far as dress codes are concerned is never good. And it's a frequent problem. At my high school, as far as I know, girls aren't allowed to wear any outfit that exposes their stomach. They're also not allowed to wear spaghetti straps. On the one hand, sure it's not anything extreme, but yeah it's kinda pointless and stupid. Are they doing this to keep guys from being distracted? (Obviously it makes no difference.) And of course there's the "no alcoholic products on t-shirts" rule.

I guess, at a certain point, it's possible to wear something that can be disruptive to the school environment. (If a goth wears a big orange mohawk and sits at the front of the class that can be a problem I suppose.) But that "certain point" isn't clear, and it [i]certainly[/i] is often way off when it comes to dress codes.

But yeah, uniforms are still worse (unless we're talking about anime... or porn, lol).

[Zeta]

How would you feel if some kind wore a shirt with anything linked to terrorists? Wether it be the 9/11 attack. I personally would be digusted by this. Only if it was in a bad way of course. Such as a plane shown flying right into the WTC. Now if it were a shirt that was sort of a "memorial" I can accept that.

I think your princple is right. Schools make up their own rules, and enforce them. I am sure somewhere in an assignment notebook/planner the rules are in an easy to read format. Wether it be a shirt with a pot leaf, or a beer bottle, he/she can do what they want. Besides, your in high school, that crap is illegal for us young'ns, no point in letting people flaunt it and give people ideas that they can wear what they want no matter what. The simple solution is this, read the rules, see what is allowed, and if you have questions, ask. And when you find out, follow the rules. Again, schools can make their own rules and enforce. Out of all the schools I have been too, things like that are not allowed. Deal with it and wear it outside of school.

Besides, wearing the shirt inside out is better than having to wear a white shirt with DCV in bold Orange letters on it. DCV stands for Dress Code Violation. So I think you got it pretty easy. ;-)

[shaman duelist1]

The way the school dresses is by the rules! The way the shirt inside out is by showing drug showing and beer ads in school so the little kids don't do that! that is the way they are, they go by the enforced rules.

[Panda]

Back in my school days we had a dress code rule that shorts and skirts had to be a certain length, hair couldn't be too tall, no clothing with a drug/alcohol theme and if you violated these rules you could be sent home to change.

At one point Bart Simpson shirts were outlawed at school. When the Simpson's first came out there was a shirt with Bart that said "Underachiever and proud of it." The school board felt this was a bad message to send to the kids. :rolleyes:

The school makes the rules and we were expected to follow them. We could wear what we want at home but not on school property. Hey, at least it was much better than wearing a set school uniform.

[Skye]

[quote name='Panda']Back in my school days we had a dress code rule that shorts and skirts had to be a certain length, hair couldn't be too tall, no clothing with a drug/alcohol theme and if you violated these rules you could be sent home to change.[/quote]

[color=orange][size=1][font=veranda]Same here. WHen I was in middle school, the shorts had to be two inches below your fingertips(dude, that was unfair!). Some of the kids had really long legs and shorter arms, so they could get away with short shorts. Now, others had to wear ones that came down to their knees.

Spaghetti straps: really, it was supposed to be distracting. I mean, if guy likes a girl, does it matter what she's wearing? He's going to stare at her anyway.

At my buds school, she had died two strips of her hair a dark blue. The teachers had her bleach it out because it was 'distracting'. Unfortunatley, the white strips that she had were more distracting than the blue strips. -.- Now she ahs totally died her hair black.

There is one thing that kind of ticked me off. I was having a long conversation with Brianna(a girl Iknow). She brought up how a kid got written up for wearing pajama pants. [I]Pajama pants[/I], for heavens sake! Okay, I can understand. It looks sloppy, and seems like the kid couldn?t get out of bed until the last minute. What peeved me was that they were expecting the kid to know not to wear them ? and it wasn?t on the dress code. How were they supposed to know?[/color][/font][/size]

[Engel]

[color=royalblue][size=1]XD, this brings back some memories...

Once when I was in fifth grade, I wore a shirt that said, "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?" because this one teacher was making me mad because when I didn't have my binder because I left it in my locker he made me have saturday school. Needless to say, me=trouble². Four Sat schools and a before school detention.

I'm not sure I wanna share anymore...[/color][/size]

[eleanor]

[color=firebrick] You shouldn't get so angry at your school about their dress code. It's not like the end of the world is going to come if you can't wear t-shirts with beers on it. And I don't exactly want to see people running around with skirts that show butts and shirts that have a bunch of sexual crap on it. The principal was not 'wrong' or 'cruel', he was merely following the rules that the county probably set for the school. It's his job. And stopping someone from wearing a shirt with a beer can on it doesn't exactly raise a concern with censorship. Even though a picture of a beer bottle is sort of 'who cares', it's not like it's deeply violating someone's right to show opinions or whatever. [/color]

[Ninjaman]

[quote name='maladjusted][color=firebrick'] You shouldn't get so angry at your school about their dress code. It's not like the end of the world is going to come if you can't wear t-shirts with beers on it. And I don't exactly want to see people running around with skirts that show butts and shirts that have a bunch of sexual crap on it. The principal was not 'wrong' or 'cruel', he was merely following the rules that the county probably set for the school. It's his job. And stopping someone from wearing a shirt with a beer can on it doesn't exactly raise a concern with censorship. Even though a picture of a beer bottle is sort of 'who cares', it's not like it's deeply violating someone's right to show opinions or whatever. [/color][/quote]

Took the words right out of my mouth. I go to a private high school and we have to wear uniforms. Skirts have to be certain lengths and guys' shirts have to be buttoned up and wearing ties. It's funny, really, a lot of people at my school like the uniforms and are comfortable to follow the dress codes. If anything, people just get in trouble for not buttoning the top button (except girls, they can have the top button undone), untucking their shirts, or wearing the wrong color of socks. The last one barely anybody notices though.

Course, that doesn't mean we're obsessed with our uniforms, we do like our free dress days as well. There's rules for that as well, but nobody really makes a big deal out of it.

But really, it isn't a big deal and it's not unfair.

[Guest lavalamp]

I had to wear uniforms for a large portion of my life. People who complain about them are a joke. 90% of the jobs on the market will make you wear a uniform to some degree, so you might as well get used to it.

Anyway, shirts with bottles of beer or characters like Bart Simpson on them aren't exactly chic. Do us all a favor and get over the fact that school isn't the place to be fashionably loud.

[Transtic Nerve]

Schools have the right to enforce any and all dress codes they choose. You don't have a say... as long as you attend a public school, the freedoms typically awarded to you in real life, ie freedom of speach which applies to what you wear, don't apply in school. Complaining about it isn't helping anyone... Sometimes it can be ridiculous, yes... but unfortunantly there's not really much you can do. When it starts getting too ridiculous, then you can take a stand, but making a kid turn his beer shirt inside outi s not getting ridiculous.

[Baron Samedi]

[size=1]Schools are not democracies. They could make you wear fluro orange shirts, if they wanted. As long as you are attending that school, you'd have to. As it is, I don't know the Corona beer shirts, but at this stage beer and women are sounding pretty suggestive. It's fair enough. At my school, a uniform is available, but you don't have to wear it. We have the same rules as Sciros [and we're two oceans away!] in regard to midsections and spaghetti straps.

But all this stuff is reasonable. Be glad you're not in a posh private school that'd make you wear clothing that was in fashion 70 years previously.[/size]

[Inari]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]At my public high school, the dress code isn?t so bad. We aren?t allowed to show bra straps, midriff, or boxers for guys, or wear short skirts and shits with large armholes. None of the teachers really enforce this, but I have heard of a few isolated incidences. A few years ago my friend made a shirt with the band 311 and on the back he put ?Who?s got the herb?? I guess some teacher thought it was inappropriate and made him go to the principle?s office. So instead of changing shirts or turning it inside out, he put tape over the word ?herb? and wrote ?basil? instead. I thought it was cool. Way to stick it to the man Jesse!

At my school I?ve seen people wearing various ?inappropriate? things on shirts ranging from marijuana leaves to alcohol to nude and semi-nude women to sexual jokes to adds for Viagra (I thought that was hilarious). Mostly the boys were asked to put on sweatshirts and complied. I think there shirts were meant to provoke the authorities and that?s just what they did. As for girls wearing high heals, short skirts and tube tops in the middle of winter; if they want to walk to math class in two feet of snow with the temperature below zero, more power to them. I think our school technically makes girls wear a huge t-shirt if they wear revealing clothing, but I?ve never seen it enforced.


What I think is ridiculous at my school is how the seminary kids of the dominant religion here dress up (skirts and ties and dress pants) on a certain day of the week. I think the reasoning behind this is to promote a higher standard for dressing and encourage modesty. What it really does is point out who is of that religion and who is not. It makes me sick how they parade around their religion and encourage their followers to notice who is of what religion.

Overall I guess I don?t mind our dress codes, and I?m thankful that we don?t have to wear uniforms. I know that often times uniforms prevent discrimination against people who can?t afford designer clothing, but I feel that freedom of expression to some extent is more important than stopping students from discriminating against others based on clothing. At my school a brand name shirt is just as cool as wearing ridiculously hideous sweater from your grandparent?s closet. It?s all about the look you?re going for, and not all of the ?cool? looks are oppressively expensive. Maybe other high schools are different from mine, but I enjoy the lack of uniforms and strict dress codes. [/COLOR]

[Korey]

[QUOTE=ScirosDarkblade]Well, unreasonable censorship as far as dress codes are concerned is never good. And it's a frequent problem. At my high school, as far as I know, girls aren't allowed to wear any outfit that exposes their stomach. They're also not allowed to wear spaghetti straps. On the one hand, sure it's not anything extreme, but yeah it's kinda pointless and stupid. Are they doing this to keep guys from being distracted? (Obviously it makes no difference.) And of course there's the "no alcoholic products on t-shirts" rule.

I guess, at a certain point, it's possible to wear something that can be disruptive to the school environment. (If a goth wears a big orange mohawk and sits at the front of the class that can be a problem I suppose.) But that "certain point" isn't clear, and it [i]certainly[/i] is often way off when it comes to dress codes.

But yeah, uniforms are still worse (unless we're talking about anime... or porn, lol).[/QUOTE]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]I agree with sciros on this one. there isnt a clear point of when dress codes go too far. my school enforces the no belly rule for girls and the guys cant wear excessively baggy pants. i have seen the person who has the orange spiky mowhawk look. he usually sits at the back of the class.

Well even though some of the schools enforce the whole uniform thing, im kinda glad that my school doesnt. i had to wear a uni in middle school and it got increasingly worse for the students who still go there. im glad i get to wear more than the same five outfits everyday.

Also with the alcohol tee shirts thing, i can sympathize with the teachers on that. would you like to have someone you know wear a shirt that says *sex on the internet, hot boobs, etc.*? obviously the prohibiting of shirts like that is necessary but sometimes teachers go above and beyond the limit of censorship. Certain teachers make you tuck in your shirts even if it isnt against school rules, others make you wear belts if they feel that your pants are baggy.

i can feel you on this one for dress codes. the limits are for the teachers to set though, if it becomes out of hand and just simply outrageous, then you could set a complaint to the school boards.[/COLOR]

[Godelsensei]

[COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New]My school tends to be pretty easy-going when it comes to dress code.

It's a BOARD-wide rule that midrifts are not to be visible, and the same goes for "frontal or prosterior cleavage".
Skirts and shorts are to come halfway down the thigh, and no swearing, hate-material, or anything that "disrupts a positive learning environment" is allowed.

Needless to say, there are still lots of people running about in ho-skirts and tops that don't cover their stomachs, but that usually stops being an issue by some time around the beginning of October.
Spaghetti straps are allowed; I never understood how displaying one's shoulders could be considered indecent exposure, anyway, and I guess THE BOARD doesn't either.

So, the above and "no hats or gang-related accessories" are really the only restrictions when it comes to dress.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Orb]

At my school you can wear pretty much anything you want (except for like your underwear or something like that lol). I think you can wear short shorts and skirts (at least they didnt say anything when i did) and u can wear short shirts to like your belly button and even tube tops. And I always see people with shirts of practically naked girls and sexual or drug references on them. But I guess no one cares, unless it is something really bad like a lot of cuss words or really really nasty.

Its kind of good because I would be embarassed if I had to change into the old clothes they would give you to change into. Not that i ever would wear anything like that though.

[Xai]

My school has a rather strict dresscode, but it's still pretty reasonable as far as I'm concerned.

The girls can't wear midriff bearing shirts or spaghetti straps(Some people shouldn't even be wearing stuff like that anyway. O_o;)and shorts/skirts have to be six inches above the knees or lower. You also can't wear shirts that advertise alcohol, cigarettes, or other drugs, or that have any illicit messages on them. Theres more, but that's it basically.

It doesn't really bother me much anyways, since I mainly just dress pretty plainly, but a lot of people I know complain about it.

[Japan]

[COLOR=Navy]My school has a dress code where girls can't have bra straps showing, spaghetti straps, midrifts or cleavage showing, can't have underwear showing, you can't wear flip flops, and you can't wear short/mini skirts either.

The people at my school dress that way anyhow...heck...a teacher wears flip flops to school every day.[/COLOR]

[Guest Midnight Rush]

I look good in khaki's and polos... and i like a girl in more classy conservative dress. I'm totally for it. If it cramps your style, that sucks for you, but you need to get over it. Say you have a job, and you loved the Seattle Grunge Punk days and dressed like that all the time...would you be pissed if your boss fired you? Things taht cramp your style improve you as a person..it BROADENS you.

[Lord Rannos]

[COLOR=DarkRed]I reall don't feel like my school's dress code is too bad. Basically, girls just can't have spaghetti straps or skirts that are shorter than.......the teachers think they should be. My school is pretty relaxed. My friend even wears a shirt that says "There can't be manslaughter without man laughter!" and has a picture of a guy holding a knife and laughing (It's a joke, people).

But it would seriously suck if we had to wear uniforms :mad:. [/COLOR]

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]I've attended both Private and public schools in my academic career. I really hated those stupid polyester plaid skirts in navy blue yellow black and gray. But that was a slight improvement over our gym uniforms (primary blue shorts with the school crest in mustard yellow and a matching yellow t-shirt with the primary blue logo) Luckily by the time I got to private school we didn't have to wear a certain brand of shoes like my mom did.

I found not having to wear a uniform kind of strange, but I would lay my clothes out every night so I wouldn't miss the bus Honestly I was more concerned with my hair.

I did get in trouble once for a t-shirt I was wearing, but it wasn't a dress code violation, more like the uptight math teacher's problem. I had a Co-Ed naked Bliilards t-shirt on that I had borrowed from a friend, it said: Co-Ed Naked Billiards, get felt on the table. She had me go to the bathroom and put my t-shirt inside out. I'm not too suprized tho, my brother had her for math too and she freaked out becuase he was leaning out the window and he was only on the ground floor.

I guess this year they actually made up this big list of dress code rules. Now you can't show your underwear, can't have short skirts or shorts (they have to end bellow the tip of your middle finger) no mid-rif showing (good luck with all those low rise jeans all the stores keep selling) and now my t-shirt would get me in trouble. I guess it's a good thing that I don't go there anymore.

But whoever said that school isn't a democracy is right. School staff is allowed to limit students' first ammendment rights as well as search lockers. Nope, in this case you may as well be in the military , but instead of fighting for democracy while living in s socialist society you learn about both democracy and socialist societies.

Could be worse though, there''s a school district in the Carolinas that forbids students to wear plain t-shirts in any color because they could be gang related.

As for complaining about a dress code, you may as well get used to it. When you go to a job you'll have to dress appropriately as well. No big t-shirts and pants down to your knees unless you don't mind making $9.50 an hour working at the airport (which is what my brother does. All he has to do is out liscence plate numbers in a computer and drive around the parking lot) [/color]

[Godelsensei]

[COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New]The former band teacher at my school once made my friend remove a necklace shaped like a sword because she interpreted it as a mutilation of the cross.

[i]That[/i]'s unnecessary and uncalled for on the school's part, if you ask me. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[chobit]

I'd love to help,but I wear a uniform.Still rules though.

Skirts can only be 8cm above the knee.Thats pretty short actually,but the teachers don't care.

Shirts tucked in?Pft,no one.

Theres no rules about clevage,but thats because they think the shirts are really high cute.But somehow,you can see mine,I think it likes to breath.

Or maybe I need a breast reduction.Meh,either way.

[Chaos]

It's all red tape. Either you have to wear uniforms because students kill other students for a shirt or uniforms are a restriction of the first amendment. Drop the subject because no one person has any say in the matter. Spend your time worried about something more import--

Did someone say cleavage?