New WVW policy: Dress code drawing comments

They should dress them in casual soldiers clothes to help acclimate them to the draft.

The public school I attended 50 years ago had a dress code.

No jeans, shirts had to be buttoned, no turned up collars and more.

It is not good to conform but the flip side is anarchy.

I saw an old picture of Wall Street money wheeler dealers grouped in front of a bank in New York and they and those men in various background positions were all in top hat and the businessman version of penguin suits.

Ugh is all I thought, they were all identical all across the city.

But at the same time look at what individuality has gotten us in the form of dress, gangs, music.

There really is no common ground on the matter.

Sumptuary Laws.

Now that is an old one.

I would think the common ground would be an individuals right of choice. While I agree on the types of clothing a person wears is in its self a safety issue. The color of the clothing I feel is not. Further up the post someone commented on having a dress code years ago when they were in school but failed to mention what colors they were allowed to wear.

And shouldn’t ALL the education staff be conformed to the EXACT same dress code?

I’ve seen way to many men with their shirt tails un-tucked and sleeves rolled up and far to many women teachers reveling a bit more cleavage AND thighs than I think is necessary or appropriate for a high school environment. Shouldn’t they be the example and not the exception?

Don’t women teachers have to climb the same stairs as the students to get to areas of the high school? Wouldn’t high heals be considered unsafe foot ware also?

Not that any of this matters. What is the message we want to teach kids today? Conform without question? That’s a mistake and you all know it. High school is supposed to be a time of learning and experimentation BEFORE they hit the real world. When they get to where they will end up working the employers will dictate what there code of dress will be. THEN they have the choice of either accepting that restriction or rejecting it for something better suited for them as they grow into adults. And this crap about dictating clothing colors to make the school safer from gang violence? Your kidding right? You can dress a gang banger in a 3 thousand dollar suit. But all you end up with is a sharp dressed gangster. Hes still going to mug you, sell dope to your kids, kill someone for not showing proper respect… who are you kidding? Attitude changes peoples outlook on themselves and others. Not the color of their clothes.

Maybe the school should spend less time being fashion police and spend more time as educators so they can at least manage to meet there own state standards.(which far as I know is NOT based on how the kids dress for school)