Greater Nanticoke Area School DRESS CODE !! (Scranton, Pittston: sales, credit, buying)
Northeastern PennsylvaniaScranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pocono area
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Kids are in school to learn and its not a fashion show. In this day and age the fewer distractions the better off the kids are. I wore shirts and ties to school and my son has a dress code here in Scranton as well as he will continue to be in schools that require a uniform.
Like I said its not about whats on your shirt or what type of jeans your wearing its about whats inside and what they are there to learn.
Uniforms are a good thing. It removes the distractions and puts the focus on learning. Most jobs require some type of dress code, and school is supposed to prepare kids for life, so dress codes/uniforms are a good thing in my opinion. And its not like most of these uniforms require kids to wear a three piece suit or a tuxedo, in Scranton and most districts, its polo shirts and khakis, sweaters, turtlenecks, etc. And uniforms are needed these days because boys seem to want to dress like ghetto thugs with extremely baggy clothes with their underwear showing and girls tend to dress like hookers anymore. I can't believe any parents let their kids dress like that.
The parents that fight these dress codes are boneheads, in my opinion.
I'm glad to hear that Pittston Area, my alma mater, is also getting an uptight uniform policy. In the high school years very few cared where one bought their clothing from, but in the intermediary years between primary school and high school there was always a lot of harassment and bullying between the Armani Exchange/Abercrombie & Fitch suburban crowd and the less fortunate kids who considered themselves lucky to have Route 66 jeans from K-Mart. Equalizing that will be a GOOD thing, in my opinion. Besides, Flynn & O'Hara, a major local uniform supplier, is located just about two miles away from our high school. I wish we had uniforms back when I was in school. To this day I open my closet and wonder "Gee. I wonder if anyone will take notice that I just wore this polo shirt last Tuesday?"
Disagree with it... the one argument I hear is that kids will no longer be ostracized for not having the "in" clothes but that's complete BS because there is most certainly going to be the "In" brands for the uniforms unless they force all the kids to buy from the same vendor and/or specify what brands they can wear.
It also places a financial burden on the parents because now they have to purchase two sets of clothes. One for school and another for after and if you want to take my above argument even a step further it will be the kids with the least amount of money that will be sticking out like sore thumbs because they don't have another set for after school.
Lastly kids are there to learn but part of the learning process is learning to express your freedom and frankly the robotic teaching methods employed by schools just ins't getting it done. You want better schools? Get better teachers that are more interested in teaching instead of the enormous salary they can pull in for half a years work.
The parents that fight these dress codes are boneheads, in my opinion.[/quote]
Hello...I am one of those bonehead parents....
I am really against this new dress code. I am NOT against a dress code of course...however. When I sit at the school board meetings and hear a director go on and on about how he was in the high school at Christmas time and out of 50 kids he saw in the hallway 35 were not in compliance with the dress code. My question is....why didn't he get those kids down to the office and call their parents? Isn't that part of his responsibility..to enforce the rules. Now I also find interesting that when asked why he didn't do that...he said it would of taken to much time to call all the parents. Well ummm...excuse me what kind of message is that sending to the kids. Because the message to me is "I want to make all the rules but leave the enforcing to someone else"
As a parent I can only speak for myself..I have a preteen son who ONCE !!! did the ..let everyone see the color of boxers I was wearing. Well when he went to get his new boxers so he could take a shower for the next day to go to school he found NONE....I made him go to school with no underwear. He got the message...to this day he has NEVER worn his pants like that. I tell him what I expect from him...I expect him to be respectful not just to me, his father, but to himself.
His school's job is not to parent my son..it is to educate him. I hear everyone saying well when he gets out in the real world he has to dress a certain way. Well after high school there is college right...but they don't have uniform type dress codes. Also, the difference between school and working is....A PAYCHECK. My son does not earn a paycheck for going to school. A school who, does not have the best education. However, when he gets in the real world if he doesn't like his paycheck he can look for a new job. I on the other hand am stuck in a crappy school district who is more worried about dressing up the students to "look" smart.
Also, we are living paycheck to paycheck. I can go to the thrift store and get my sons school clothes for 2/3 the price of getting the "uniform" type clothing....then I also need to go out and get a 2nd set of clothes. I just went this weekend to looking for the "uniform" type clothes and just for pants alone for my 2 sons..it would be $100.00 heaven forbid they get a rip or stain on them. Last year with hitting sales at JCPenny (Arizona shirts for 70 CENTS !!!!), getting jeans at thrift stores and hand me downs (all in nearly new condition), buying new sneakers and socks...I spent $150.00 ALL TOGETHER !!!
This is just a joke...if they were not willing to enforce the previous dress code how are they going to enforce the new one.
Disagree with it... the one argument I hear is that kids will no longer be ostracized for not having the "in" clothes but that's complete BS because there is most certainly going to be the "In" brands for the uniforms unless they force all the kids to buy from the same vendor and/or specify what brands they can wear.
It also places a financial burden on the parents because now they have to purchase two sets of clothes. One for school and another for after and if you want to take my above argument even a step further it will be the kids with the least amount of money that will be sticking out like sore thumbs because they don't have another set for after school.
Lastly kids are there to learn but part of the learning process is learning to express your freedom and frankly the robotic teaching methods employed by schools just ins't getting it done. You want better schools? Get better teachers that are more interested in teaching instead of the enormous salary they can pull in for half a years work.
So I guess that workplaces should also do away with dress codes? No uniforms for police officers? No blue vests for Wal-Mart workers?
As far as the "buying two sets of clothes" arguments, I know Scranton School District has a program to give free uniforms to kids from low-income families. When we buy our kids' uniform shirts at Starr Uniform, they give us a $1 credit on our purchase for each used shirt we trade in, and they give those out to needy families. And there's nothing wrong with those shirts, its just that at the elementary school level, they grow out of them fast.
The funny thing is that I think dress codes tend to make school into more of a fashion show than it is without the dress codes...it just might backfire. I went to highschool with a strict dress code, and I think it just made clothes that much more of a focus than my friends who were in public school.
I haven't really followed what they are requiring of kids and parents with these codes, but I have nieces in Pittston Area, and my sister told me that there is a rule that no one is allowed to wear all black clothing. Now what is wrong with being goth, when did that become so wrong? And no one is allowed to wear head bands either, which just seems silly...I really don't get it. Everyone will be focusing on clothes more now than before I think.
So I guess that workplaces should also do away with dress codes? No uniforms for police officers? No blue vests for Wal-Mart workers?
School isn't a fashion show....its for learning.
I'm not suggesting doing away with the dress code, I just don't see the need for a rigid uniform dress code.
Funny you should mention the giving kids to the needy as I remeber a related experience as kid in school. The one kid was quite poor and he ended up with one of the shirts a classmates parent gave away to the salvation army. Poor kid never heard the end of it but I know I was one of them laughing at him. Kids are like that though and always will be, a dress code is not going to change that situation.
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Greater Nanticoke Area School DRESS CODE !!
