Kayden Dorman BARBARA DAVIDSON/DMN Body piercer Kayden Dorman disagrees with the Arlington school district's new dress code: "If they're allowing people to wear earrings, they should allow them to wear bigger earrings." Posted on 07/10/2006 7:34:49 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Dress code takes sparkle out of students' smiles
Arlington ISD: Officials limit mouth, ear jewelry
11:26 PM CDT on Sunday, July 9, 2006
By TOYA LYNN STEWART / The Dallas Morning News
Kayden Dorman BARBARA DAVIDSON/DMN Body piercer Kayden Dorman disagrees with the Arlington school district's new dress code: "If they're allowing people to wear earrings, they should allow them to wear bigger earrings."
Karrick Senegar says rapping and grills go together like cars and tires.
That's why the 16-year-old aspiring rapper and Arlington student spent $200 in April on the mouth jewelry known as a grill. But the Sam Houston High School junior won't be able to flash his six-tooth white-gold diamond-cut grill around campus come August.
The Arlington school district has changed its dress code to ban the trendy mouth jewelry. Also added to the unacceptable list are tall tees – oversized shirts that hang to the knees – and the practice of stretching out earlobes, sometimes called gauging.
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"That's why the 16-year-old aspiring rapper..."
Aim high, buddy.
If it's a reform school.
The problem is that the kids have been allowed to push the envelope so far that they think that anything they want to do is acceptible. And, unfortunately, many of their parents agree.
susie
I remember back in the early 1970's, my brother got his ear pierced and my Father didn't talk to him for weeks. He was so disappointed in him.
Speaks volumes about where our culture is headed, no?
"And, unfortunately, many of their parents agree. "
Exactly. The hippies who never grew up, have kids that they never parented. And now we all pay.
It's a great look if your life's work aspirations don't go beyond parking cars....
"Either way, can any student think this is proper for school?"
It seems that many of these kids have never been taught that the concept of propriety has validity.
Insofar as they are aware of it, they seem to think it a wrongful attempt to stifle their self-expression, or some such garbage.
headed? We're already there, my friend.
I suspect that many a teenager today will have rapidly-healing noses and lips and will be paying for laser removal of tattoos when they advance into the workforce. Nothing like working for a living to shock you!
He's going to go far.
One of the saddest things I've ever seen was a totally tattooed, head to toe, woman in her 60's in a wheelchair. It ain't as attractive on an old, saggy body.
Where I live, they've been wearing these to school for several years now.
It's pretty disgusting when they take them out & put them on their desks.
Search can be a wonderful thing. Different engines can be used. Like most things that get too big, Google has become something other than a "wonderful thing."
My daughter picked that idea up from me. She tells friends, "Now, think of that tattoo on your grandmother."
Gee, do you think Dorman disagrees with the school dress code because it might directly affect the money he makes as a body-piercer? That whole gold teeth/mouth grill trend is probably the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I would run screaming in the opposite direction if a guy with a mouth grill ever hit on me. Pure revulsion.
who would hire one of these walking freak shows their only job garbage collection or toilet cleaning
Is it the "Miserable Failure" search or the removal of some conservative news sources that Google called "hate speech" that makes it less than a wonderful thing?
As a search engine, it is more comprehensive than Ask.com, Yahoo! or MSN search. I refuse to boycott a good source of information over such minor incidents, but I support your right to.
Maybe the next generation truly sees things different. My stepdaughter just married a guy who is lovely. He's a very nice guy...HOWEVER, he has tattoos ALL OVER the upper part of his body...front, back, both arm...He's talking about getting more.. I have to be honest, I think less of him because of it...I probably shouldn't but I do.
i have 12 tattoos and 5 piercings- including earrings gaged to 6ga. i haven't had any problems getting, or keeping a job.
Well, we were all dumb and arrogant as teenagers. I think I've grown out of the stupid things now and am a productive adult. I don't climb up the sides of University towers any more. :)
I think less of him because of it...I probably shouldn't but I do.
Of course you think less of him. His judgement is poor.
Picture a '49 Buick grille in place of your teeth.
left or right ear?
Yeah, but what is attractive on an old saggy body? It's not like you're going to look much better without the tattoos
I guess I'm just too old also. I don't know why, but body piercing, aside from earrings, just kind of makes me sick. Particularly bad is seeing it on food service workers. It just looks nasty, I mean it looks as if they are unclean. I can just visualize "stuff" dripping out around the studs etc. Can't handle it.
I own a cleaning business and I wouldn't hire one of these freak to clean the toilets.
If only they knew how ridiculous they look.
Rap is to society what rust is to iron. Anything having to with it is not edifying, IMHO.
are you going to had you car keys to this clown?
I'm not
Yeah, and I frequently see OLD men out here with 2 pierced ears, and long gray pony tails. Weird....
susie
This isn't about What is "proper" for school, I think it's about the future of these kids. What these kids fail to understand is that first impressions go a long way. What they think is an expression of their individuality (piercings, tattoos, wierd hair styles, ect) may keep them from getting the job they may want. I know that if I have a choice between hiring a kid who projects a conservative image, and a kid that looks like he went bobbing for apples in a tackle box, I'm going to hire the normal looking kid first.
Yup. Makes any kind of dress code really difficult to enforce.
susie
My son's elementary has banned camoflaged clothing. I support them. Schools should not be run like a democracy, the students shouldn't complain about "rights".
I wonder if the adminstration can even recognize the difference between hunting camoflage and that used by the military, though.
It ain't attractive on a young, tight body as far as I'm concerned.
A woman's body is a work of art. Tattoos are a desecration.
I sure would! With all the places he has to hang them, there's no way they'd get lost!
LOL!! We watch "Inked" and laugh at the tattoos. One of the jokes is they'll have to open wrinkles to see the whole thing years from now.
It's sad to see people looking like a wall full of graffiti and beliveing that it's "attractive".
Wait until you're 50.
Super-attractive, let me tell you.
Last year, it was a female student who got into a catfight and got her dangly belly-button ring/decoration yanked out. Three months' worth of antibiotics, and actual plastic surgery on her tummy to make the button look right again.
Kids are just stupid.
It is fine to think less of him, and if he realizes you do, just tell him that he thinks less of himself or he would not rely on the flawed hand of a dirtbag to try to "pretty-up" what was made by the Hand of God.
He might not understand that so just say, he looked a lot better without them. Then hang a shower curtain on his nipple rings.
Be sure to tip him very well BEFORE you hand him your keys, or he might secure them in a "special" place.
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