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Subject: 'Fascist dress code' editorial


Author:
Joey
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Date Posted: 12:56:54 09/21/04 Tue

Children out of control or school board out of control?
Each year, our schools administrators’ make it harder to support them in their quest to educate our children.
Why is so much focused on what the students wear and how they wear it?
Do students really need to be taught, or forced to tuck in their shirts? Why?
It is ridiculous. Should some child/young adult be overweight or self-conscious about their body, it could prove to be quite a humiliating experience.
With our country at war and humiliation of prisoners considered a crime (and that is any form of humiliation) how is it the schools see no problem with it.
Surely they realize the delicate condition of the adolescent psyche as well as student criticism from their peers at any age.
Assuredly, part of my disdain for the dress code is there was no dress code during my high school years.
We were told what we wore, and how long or bushy your hair was did not affect learning. This was the early 70s.
If anyone remembers the style during that era, you realize hair was very long, whether male or female, jeans were full of holes and eight out of 10 students had a camouflage jacket.
Guess what, appearance did not cause any problems in the classrooms or anywhere else.
Today the only ones bringing attention to what is worn is the teacher/school.
With two sons already through the ROISD and two still in elementary, it is difficult to understand how the school system has gotten to this point.
This year we are not allowed past the front office and you are not allowed to go to your child’s class unless you have permission from the principal and the teacher. This is totally unacceptable.
Hopefully there are more that believe something needs to be done, some rules need to change. Also, there are parents who want to just accept the current conditions and prefer not to rock the boat.
Either way, make sure you go to the “meet the teacher” day and “open house,” as that may be one of the few times you see your child’s teacher.
Donna Moody
Red Oak
DRF58@aol.com

*Reporter responds: Mrs. Moody, your concerns, as well as other parents’ concerns, can always be met at the ballot box, but seeing as though schools do not – and will not – teach the importance of civic involvement other than during a school bond election campaign, it’s safe to assume then the school administrators (bureaucrats, if you want to be technical) will do whatever they want.
Then again, if presidential elections are the only time people show up to vote, then what do we honestly expect to happen?
As a former school board candidate in Midlothian (the only one who campaigned against the fascist dress code and random drug testing I might add), I can tell you firsthand voter turnout is dangerously low.
There are really only two ways to combat the problem: Vote (or run for office) or withdrawal.
I’m sure the school trustees would take notice if 2,000 parents in each district either showed up to the ballot box to oust them or yanked their kids out of their schools, don’t you?

Joey Dauben
The Ellis County Press

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