Senate dress code

NiftyNiblick said:
When I was in public high school in the early 1960s,
I had to wear a suit,
and I was perfectly cool with it because I liked suits.

By the time my son was in high school,
they were in the "anything goes" period.
That's been since mitigated as well.

Sometimes he wore cargo shorts in February, but
my favorite garment of his was one particular t-shirt.

From a distance, it looked a little like a paisley print, odd for a t-shirt.
Up close, you could see that the print was not paisley
but multiple pairs of tiny rabbits having sex.

He tells the story about some girls sitting behind him giggling
and the teacher clueless as to why.

He had another less subtle t-shirt.
On the front were two fucking skeletons
over the caption, "Love never dies."

Meanwhile, his little sister attended middle school dressed like Madonna.

Why am I only now realizing what juvenile delinquents my kids were?

Not their fault, though.
The Gestapo and I weren't exactly Draconian disciplinarians as you can well imagine.

As long as they didn't act like assholes toward other people
and thought before they did anything stupid to hurt themselves or others,
I guess we were good.

The offspring turned out fine as far as I can see.
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Kids these days aren't your kids...or is... of course it depends on the school and the system but inappropriate clothing can be a problem... (I'm betting your son's teacher knew what was up...)
 
TOP said:
I'm betting your son's teacher knew what was up...)
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He doesn't think so,
I wasn't there,
but you were a teacher,
so who knows?

No matter. that was the no-rules era.
Now they're somewhere in between my time and his as far as dress codes go
from what I hear.

I haven't noticed school kids for a long time,
except for older college students
who make up at least half of Boston's sidewalk traffic
except in the peripheral residential areas like mine.

My neighborhood has very few people much under fifty [that would be like my kids' age group],
and not many school kids apparently
because I never see any.
 
Jarod said:
Advising someone about what to wear due to a judge or jury's bias is not the same thing as imposing a dress code. People should be free do dress as they chose. I wear a suit to court because people are biased against someone who does not, and I do not want people biased against me or my client... I try to judge people by things other than their clothing choice and I believe people should be free to dress as they chose.
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you do it BECUSE the court has a dress code......
 
TOP said:
Not sure what you mean by a special school but uniforms are always a good idea... there's no purpose in a dress code if it's relaxed.. that means that it pretty much doesn't exist... same thing goes for phones/headphones.. part of the schools job is to prepare these kids for real life...
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How do uniforms prepare kids for anything but a job at McDonalds?
 
Jarod said:
I think I should be legally allowed to go to court dressed any way I please.
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when I was in law school I said I wanted to practice law in a flannel shirt and blue jeans....I was told the Upper Pennisula of Michigan already had enough lawyers.....
 
NiftyNiblick said:
He doesn't think so,
I wasn't there,
but you were a teacher,
so who knows?

No matter. that was the no-rules era.
Now they're somewhere in between my time and his as far as dress codes go
from what I hear.

I haven't noticed school kids for a long time,
except for older college students
who make up at least half of Boston's sidewalk traffic
except in the peripheral residential areas like mine.

My neighborhood has very few people much under fifty [that would be like my kids' age group],
and not many school kids apparently
because I never see any.
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Think about it and I bet you're going to agree with me...she knew.... I guess I'll assume it was a she...he was probably a good kid... why disappoint him and let him know that the tiny hu.ping rabbits weren't really fooling anyone... he was entertaining the ladies .;) We probably would have asked him to turn the skeleton one inside out...unless it was Halloween.... things have changed so much in schools... we just didn't want kids to fight over colors or shoes...lol... or maybe an outfit that might have been worn a little bit too often... we dealt with it but it was so much easier with the uniforms... it's kind of out of control these days and that's why they're trying to go to uniforms everywhere... just to make things easier for everyone... when I go to football games or basketball games I do laugh though because those kids would not want me for a coach these days... cheerleading and our dance and drill teams Etc are not what they used to be...lol... thankfully swimming is swimming and will always be swimming...whew... you must be right in the city because in The Burbs there are kids everywhere always...lol ...we're in the middle of two school systems...
 
TOP said:
Think about it and I bet you're going to agree with me...she knew.... I guess I'll assume it was a she...he was probably a good kid... why disappoint him and let him know that the tiny hu.ping rabbits weren't really fooling anyone... he was entertaining the ladies .;) We probably would have asked him to turn the skeleton one inside out...unless it was Halloween.... things have changed so much in schools... we just didn't want kids to fight over colors or shoes...lol... or maybe an outfit that might have been worn a little bit too often... we dealt with it but it was so much easier with the uniforms... it's kind of out of control these days and that's why they're trying to go to uniforms everywhere... just to make things easier for everyone... when I go to football games or basketball games I do laugh though because those kids would not want me for a coach these days... cheerleading and our dance and drill teams Etc are not what they used to be...lol... thankfully swimming is swimming and will always be swimming...whew... you must be right in the city because in The Burbs there are kids everywhere always...lol ...we're in the middle of two school systems...
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I'll defer, TOP, to your more informed opinions about public school policies.

Yes, I did attend public schools in the 1950s and 1960s,
but that, of course,
was before the Dead Sea even had the sniffles.

Other things have obviously changed
so I imagine schools have as well,
even since the offspring were attending them.

I still very much care about the public schools
even though I have no grandkids--

and even if I did have them, they'd have probably graduated from college or at least be attending by now--

but I don't, of course, dig down into the minutia.

I wouldn't have access to the information required to do so.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I'll defer, TOP, to your more informed opinions about public school policies.

Yes, I did attend public schools in the 1950s and 1960s,
but that, of course,
was before the Dead Sea even had the sniffles.

Other things have obviously changed
so I imagine schools have as well,
even since the offspring were attending them.

I still very much care about the public schools
even though I have no grandkids--

and even if I did have them, they'd have probably graduated from college or at least be attending by now--

but I don't, of course, dig down into the minutia.

I wouldn't have access to the information required to do so.
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I have students with great grandchildren and I think I just heard that at least one has a great great grandchild... we just had our 50th High School reunion recently... it was fun reminiscing but things sure have changed and although I don't want to go all the way back I wouldn't mind retreating just a bit.. those kids need home ec and industrial Arts more than they need crt..;)
 
TOP said:
.. those kids need home ec and industrial Arts more than they need crt..;)
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Now you're just trying to be silly, TOP.
Anything to pull a rib on ol' Nifty, right?

Nobody needs cathode ray tubes anymore.
We have LED displays now.
I may be a relic, but even I know that!:mad:
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Now you're just trying to be silly, TOP.
Anything to pull a rib on ol' Nifty, right?

Nobody needs cathode ray tubes anymore.
We have LED displays now.
I may be a relic, but even I know that!:mad:
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I'm super serious...;) REAL WORLD skills...;)
 
TOP said:
if a student can't afford a uniform I'm sure that allowances are made... the vast majority of my high school was low income.... it's still very possible to make the sales of school apparel a fundraiser... you really don't think that they're selling those t-shirts that your kids school too make money that isn't used for the school do you? If that's the case the wrong person and it's in charge of your uniforms and the company that produces them...;) you said they're all Public so that should not be an issue...

They are doing such a disservice in the high school by allowing just about anything these days...why not speak up?
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I disagree, I think there is a case for uniforms in some situations, but if you are in a community where things run smoothly without them, you are better off without.

I have never worn a uniform in my adult work career and never intend to. I do not see how uniforms prepare a student for "the real world."
 
TOP said:
Not sure what you mean by a special school but uniforms are always a good idea... there's no purpose in a dress code if it's relaxed.. that means that it pretty much doesn't exist... same thing goes for phones/headphones.. part of the schools job is to prepare these kids for real life...
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Special as in not a lot of problems with the kids so dress code was unnecessary. There are/were rules against kids using phones and headphones, I am not opposed to that. Its okey with me if they use them between classes or at lunch, but not in class.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Now you're just trying to be silly, TOP.
Anything to pull a rib on ol' Nifty, right?

Nobody needs cathode ray tubes anymore.
We have LED displays now.
I may be a relic, but even I know that!:mad:
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Watching a movie while I exercise, and the upright male character wore his suit to a baseball game, I immediately thought of you. It gave me a good laugh.
 
TOP said:
I'm super serious...;) REAL WORLD skills...;)
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It just occurred to me that the Gestapo didn't go to the public schools
as I may have mistakenly mentioned in other posts.

Now that I think of it,
she went to the local parish Catholic school.

They didn't have home economics
and now I have to do the cooking.

If I had the energy,
I'd go upstairs and start a fight over it, right now,
but I don't.

That said, the LED screens are more convenient than the old cathode ray tubes,
whether we're being serious or not.
I can't imagine why you'd even mentioned the CRT at all.
 
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