Parents rip WB Dress Code (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre: 2009, renting, credit)

[Magritte25]

W-B Area dress code ripped | Wilkes-Barre News | The Times Leader

Anyone who needs clothes to express themselves is lacking in personality and other character traits. You do not need a piece of material to tell others who you are.

[go phillies]

Wow...we agree again. My kids wear uniforms to school and I think its a good thing. There are dress codes in the real world, and I thought school was to prepare kids for the real world.....when they grow up, their boss isn't going to give a hoot about individual expression. When I hear these parents moaning about dress codes and uniforms in their kids schools, it confirms that the problems with kids today is lousy parenting. Sure, maybe in our generation we didn't have uniforms, and the dress codes were lax, but we also didn't have boys walking around with their underwear hanging out and girls with shorts that go right up their cracks and their boobs hanging out.

And the argument that its too costly is a joke...the uniforms cost less than regular clothes, and what do they need to buy, 3 or 4 pairs of pants and the same amount of shirts? And in Scranton, there is assistance for poor families that have trouble affording the uniforms...the uniform store we buy the shirts from has an exchange program, if you bring in a used uniform shirt, they give you $1.00 off of your order for each shirt, and they then distribute those clothes to poor families. And the shirts are usually in great shape, kids grow out of them before they get worn.

[Magritte25]

::thud::

Oh, sorry that was me hitting the floor in amazement that we agreed again GP! LOL

[go phillies]

Some really pathetic quotes from the parents in that article:

“Kids won’t go to school because they have to wear khaki,” Cindy Bork warned, noting she had bought all her back-to-school clothes before the new policy was passed and couldn’t afford another round of shopping. “They will go to cyber school.”

“We’re not asking you to throw out the whole thing,” she said, but there are things that should not be banned, like jeans. She repeated her claim that jeans are the cheapest pants she can find and that she cannot afford to meet the new code on her husband’s $8.75-per-hour salary.

“My daughter is in tears over this, she doesn’t want to go back to school.”

Hoy crap...these parent are not teaching their kids any life lessons. They'll pull their kids out of the school and have them take internet classes because they can't wear what they want???? The lady that says that jeans are cheaper is mistaken...I've founf the khakis to be no more expensive, more likely less expensive, than jeans. Cindy Bork should have saved the receipts on those back-to-school clothes like most people do. If not, the stores will usually give you store credit without a receipt.

[61scout80]

I think it's crap, changing the way students dress won't fix anything...

Originally Posted by go phillies

and I thought school was to prepare kids for the real world.

I did too, then i graduated and realized they taught me nothing about real world stuff! its a shame school administrators are more concerned with a dress code then adding classes on finance! how many kids graduating high school understand interest rates?? how many understand depreciating assets? how many of them understand how much that car stereo is actually going to cost when they max out that new best buy card at 26% interest?

but no, lets create a dress code! at least they will produce well dressed idiots.

[go phillies]

Originally Posted by 61scout80

I think it's crap, changing the way students dress won't fix anything...




I did too, then i graduated and realized they taught me nothing about real world stuff! its a shame school administrators are more concerned with a dress code then adding classes on finance! how many kids graduating high school understand interest rates?? how many understand depreciating assets? how many of them understand how much that car stereo is actually going to cost when they max out that new best buy card at 26% interest?

but no, lets create a dress code! at least they will produce well dressed idiots.

My high school had accounting and consumer math courses, among other business courses. But what are you going to learn when the girls look like junior hookers and the boys are walking around with their pants falling off their arses. Its definitely a distraction.

And you have these parents that teach their kids to break the rules....its pathetic. I wonder how many of the parents complaining about the cost of clothes has money for cigarettes and beer?

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by 61scout80

I think it's crap, changing the way students dress won't fix anything...




I did too, then i graduated and realized they taught me nothing about real world stuff! its a shame school administrators are more concerned with a dress code then adding classes on finance! how many kids graduating high school understand interest rates?? how many understand depreciating assets? how many of them understand how much that car stereo is actually going to cost when they max out that new best buy card at 26% interest?

but no, lets create a dress code! at least they will produce well dressed idiots.

Really? That's a shame. I'm sorry you went to a school that did nothing to teach you about the real world.

Dress codes for schools are a GOOD idea. They take away the pressures of conforming to the heirarchy of school and put the focus on learning.

[gm1276]

As someone who wore a uniform pretty much all throughout school, I totally disagree. Dress codes are completely useless. And 61 scout, you're 100% correct. School teaches kids nothing about survival in the real world. Total, total joke.

[Magritte25]

NOTHING about survival in the real world? Wow. What schools did you guys go to? Seriously. That's crazy!

As someone who has *many* friends from both here and abroad who wore school uniforms, I feel confident that the uniforms will reduce social problems at school. Note I said "reduce" not "eradicate".

School uniforms are definitely the way to go. Wish WBASD would do it already.

[61scout80]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Really? That's a shame. I'm sorry you went to a school that did nothing to teach you about the real world.

Dress codes for schools are a GOOD idea. They take away the pressures of conforming to the heirarchy of school and put the focus on learning.

There will be hierarchy in all aspects of nature, even with dress codes. just look at any pack animals.

Clothing was only a vessel of communicating, students will still be critical of others interests no matter how they are dressed. those who enjoy different things from the main stream will always be an outcast.

when the focus outside of school is on how important education is there will be more focus on learning.