Comments on: When A Boy Wears A Skirt to School http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: JeffersonDavis http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-229503 JeffersonDavis Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:21:38 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52422#comment-229503 Take the matter out of the Administrator's hands. Allow the parents (or county voters) to vote for what they want their property taxes to fund. If that county wants dress codes, so be it. If they want kilts, fine. If they want a drag-queen pagent - that's fine too. If you pay taxes, you should have a say in how it's spent. Don'tcha think? Take the matter out of the Administrator's hands. Allow the parents (or county voters) to vote for what they want their property taxes to fund. If that county wants dress codes, so be it. If they want kilts, fine. If they want a drag-queen pagent – that's fine too. If you pay taxes, you should have a say in how it's spent. Don'tcha think?

]]> By: StockBoySF http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-229502 StockBoySF Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:19:12 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52422#comment-229502 My two years of Catholic high school apparently were very different than ProdElwood's. There were exclusive clicks left and right, which were far more intense than the public schools I had attended before. Some clicks didn't bother to even find out if someone "belonged" in their click. Anyone who wasn't already in their click wasn't even talked to.<br><br>I absolutely hated those uniforms. I think kids should be given the freedom to express and find themselves. <br><br>It would have been much more productive if the administration had put half as much energy as they did enforcing the dress code into teaching the kids to respect others by encouraging everyone to work on projects amongst themselves, rather than simply with their best friends. My two years of Catholic high school apparently were very different than ProdElwood's. There were exclusive clicks left and right, which were far more intense than the public schools I had attended before. Some clicks didn't bother to even find out if someone “belonged” in their click. Anyone who wasn't already in their click wasn't even talked to.

I absolutely hated those uniforms. I think kids should be given the freedom to express and find themselves.

It would have been much more productive if the administration had put half as much energy as they did enforcing the dress code into teaching the kids to respect others by encouraging everyone to work on projects amongst themselves, rather than simply with their best friends.

]]> By: ProfElwood http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-229478 ProfElwood Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:56:03 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52422#comment-229478 Having gone to a Catholic high school for two years (even though I'm not Catholic), I came to favor a dress code. One of the big advantages to a dress code is that it discourages judging people from their appearance, so class difference are harder to spot. You have to actually get to know people before you find out whether their family is rich or poor. In that age group, it makes a big difference, and I noticed no exclusive clicks like you find in many high schools. Having gone to a Catholic high school for two years (even though I'm not Catholic), I came to favor a dress code. One of the big advantages to a dress code is that it discourages judging people from their appearance, so class difference are harder to spot. You have to actually get to know people before you find out whether their family is rich or poor. In that age group, it makes a big difference, and I noticed no exclusive clicks like you find in many high schools.

]]> By: Father_Time http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-229454 Father_Time Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:34:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52422#comment-229454 Well, we will just have to reverse the trend. Instituting laws and restrictions will have to be petitioned for. Well, we will just have to reverse the trend. Instituting laws and restrictions will have to be petitioned for.

]]> By: Almoderate http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-229399 Almoderate Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:43:14 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52422#comment-229399 Honestly, I always hated the idea of school uniforms, but there are so many things that you'd have to address as appropriate or inappropriate in a dress code that it might just make things easier for school administrators to go by that. Honestly, I always hated the idea of school uniforms, but there are so many things that you'd have to address as appropriate or inappropriate in a dress code that it might just make things easier for school administrators to go by that.

]]> By: Leonidas http://themoderatevoice.com/52422/when-a-boy-wears-a-skirt-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-229389 Leonidas Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:03:53 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52422#comment-229389 Let them wear what they want if its a public school. If its a private school let the administrators set whatever policy they want. Let them wear what they want if its a public school. If its a private school let the administrators set whatever policy they want.

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