[CS-FSLUG] school dress code, was Re: OT: Don't Buy Harry Potter

[David Colburn]

The key questions re. school property dress code are:

1. Does the choice of dress have any impact on the
intellectual learning process?

2.  Does the choice of dress have any impact on the
value-system learning process?

3.  Does the battle between administration and students
re. choice of dress have a threshold where it in and of
itself has an impact on the learning process?

Although never a Roman Catholic I attended a RC HS.
The girls fought a never-ending battle of rolled-up or
pulled-up skirts and too-tight, too-transparent, too-
unbuttoned blouses.

Impact?

1.  Yes.  The boys were far more interested in what
they might glimpse across the aisle than what was
being written on the blackboard.

2.  Yes.  Inevitably the boys competed for what the
exposed flesh marketed rather than the values merely
preached by teachers and administrators who created
the uniform rules that exposed so much temptation.

3.  Yes.  Because the uniforms were foolishly designed
girls were removed from the classroom to have hemlines
measured!  Had the bottoms been slacks it would have
eliminated much of the problem!

Sidebar:  Male friends at the government "public" HS
remarked that they loved any interaction with the RC
HS because it was the only time they ever saw a girl's
legs.  The girls at their HS all wore slacks.  The
dress code had failed miserably.

IMHO, YMMV ... doc

> One specific thing I got from the movies: I am making myself a nuisance
> in the (Christian) school where I teach by insisting in proper dress
> code compliance, specifically requiring shirts tucked in.  I became this
> way after watching the sophomoric Hogwarts crowd in action.
> 
> BTW, this is totally off topic, but, what do you think of that issue?  I
> am not happy either way. I mean, the line has to be drawn somewhere
> between what is inappropriate attire (extremes: spagetti straps, belly
> showing shirts, low hanging pants) and what to require and enforce.  I
> have chosen to be conservative in what I mandate, and so far I have the
> faculty's support, but the older kids are a bit rebellious and a few
> parents seem to be on that side.  I just would rather find a way we can
> enforce by consensus.