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You think that because you have probably never tried to maintain discipline on that last day of school. More kids are sent home the last three days of school than in the first two or three months of school. It is a nightmare and no, you absolutely can't be lax about things that clearly violate rules, to include dress codes, because that just encourages further testing of the rules. This is especially true of middle school students, and particularly true of 8th graders, who think they have nothing to lose because they are changing schools.
When I went to school kids always got away with more on the last day of school. There isn't any type of lessons going on that day anyway.
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And I don't doubt at all this is true:
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You think that because you have probably never tried to maintain discipline on that last day of school. More kids are sent home the last three days of school than in the first two or three months of school. It is a nightmare and no, you absolutely can't be lax about things that clearly violate rules, to include dress codes, because that just encourages further testing of the rules. This is especially true of middle school students, and particularly true of 8th graders, who think they have nothing to lose because they are changing schools.
And I don't doubt at all this is true:
However there is nothing in the dress code about make up for males or females. So, it isn't clear that he was violating any rules.
It is because some kid currently in the 7th grade will try to top it the next year. It is because the kids spend the last day testing all the rules they can think of, and the more they get away with, the more they try, and that is a very visible breaking of the rules. I encourage you to spend the last day of school one year at your local middle school, it isn't pretty and it really is an exercise in maintaining chaos. Every teacher I know hates the last days of school because it is a zoo and you are responsible for maintaining discipline.
Can you show me where in the dress code it is against the rules for a boy to wear makeup?
The only time a man should wear makeup is when he is on stage on on television. Yes I do believe that outside of the reasons I just stated the school's policy should be makeup is for girls ONLY. The child is obviously confused by the messages he gets at home. If the kid then gets the s**t kicked out of him at school because of it then they are the first ones that want an arrest made and "Hate Crime" charges be filed. Or if the kid gets teased and decides to kill himself I guess everyone else can be charged with bullying as well. I also believe the school is at fault for not stating directly in the student handbook that basic or minimal makeup is allowed to be worn by GIRLS ONLY. Putting that in writing from the start would have saved this whole episode from ever happening.
Sounds like a slightly creepy family...I wonder if the kid would be into make up if he were being raised by a common carpenter who was married to a rural school teacher? The luxury of being a freak...only in a first world nation where people have first world problems - that consist of some geek wearing makeup and standing up for his so-called human rights- JUST DAMNED SILLY!
Yes, but it's also a first world problem to complain about people looking different from you...
It's subjective either way, and when that's the case, isn't it better to rule on the side of more freedom vs less?
Liberals are great for double standards. Everyone else is supposed to be "tolerant" of whatever bizarre behavior they want to do, but do whatever they can to ban anything they don't like. Hypocrites.
What do we want to ban exactly? Guns? Most liberals don't want to ban guns. They just want more regulation.
And let us not forget that makeup on a boy isn't going to kill anyone, but a gun can. This coming from someone who could care less about more or less gun control.
What is a 14 year-old doing wearing makeup to school anyway? Every school I ever attended, makeup for females was not allowed. Some girls got away with light powder and mascara, but I never wore anything other than chapstick!
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