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This is your grandchild, yes? Do you have custody of her? If not, what do her parents think?
If third grade boys are distracted by girls in skits, they've got problems! Why do girls have to dress so as not to distract the boys? What are they being protected from, especially at that young age?
My son, who lives with me has joint custody with her maternal grandparents and they agree with me. My son doesn't care one way or the other. Her mother has no rights at this time.
I was in high school back in the 40s, when they got so tired of girls especially trying to look hot to attract boys that they had a hard time keeping the kids focusing on education. The school established a dress code, developed by the PTA.
Boys had to wear pants and shirts of a certain type. Girls had to wear a medium jumper style dress and a white mans shirt type blouse. Skirts had to be down to the middle of their knees. When this was instituted, the test scores went up considerably for both boys and girls. It solved a lot of problems and no longer did they have to send students home because their clothing was not appropriate.
Apparently they are having trouble in the OPs school, and some of the girls are getting beyond being appropriately dressed, etc., which is disrupting the other students and lowering test scores which is a measure of the quality of school. They are seeking an end to the problem, and getting the kids back to going to school to learn as that is what the school's main goal is.
This is ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! She is going into 3rd grade for cryin' out loud. She is not interested in looking sexy for a boy. I'm going to see how many other parents are on board with me. Maybe we can get together and all of us send our daughters & granddaughters to school with a skirt or skort on the first day. We'll call the local news station, hold signs "Girls should be allowed to be girls", maybe it will go national........
I tend to agree about questioning the OP about the religion thing. I have two kids in pubic school, and I work in education, and I have never run across an instance where kids were told not to talk about God, etc. BTW, they're girls, and I would have no problem with them having to wear pants. I think it's only fair that the dress code be the same across the board.
She wasn't told not to discuss God by a teacher, it was another student who told her they aren't allowed to talk about the Lord.
If you don't like what the school is doing...switch schools.
I said that in the last sentence of my post. "Notice I said we are talking about pulling her out of that school so you don't need to tell me to "just take her out".
I see nothing wrong with the policy and a school has a right to enforce a dress code. It serves a purpose. I know some say kids should be allowed to wear what they want if it isn't distracting. Please tell me, who determines if an outfit is distracting? I even like the idea of uniforms. It cuts down on the: keep up with the Jone;s kids are not judged by the way they dress when uniforms are required. It also helps to teach kids, there are rules and you live in a world where you better get used to them. Let kids develop their own standards of dress or whatever, outside of school.
My son, who lives with me has joint custody with her maternal grandparents and they agree with me. My son doesn't care one way or the other. Her mother has no rights at this time.
It sounds like you have no rights, either, yes?
Anyway, agree with some others who have said the worst thing you could do is send her to school the first day in a skirt.
Yes, and this is the battle I intend to pick because it's not just about the uniform, it's about teaching our girls that they have to wear pants and be like the boys. Where does it stop?
Sounds like her son lets her make the decisions since he lives with her.
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