Posted on 10/19/2014 12:17:41 PM PDT by Morgana
"* If your pants are hanging around your thighs, then they have ceased performing their essential function as pants and you are dressing immodestly."
Dare I say why we can't enforce that form of modesty?
females should quit wearing men’s clothes.
If a female wears provocative clothing, I will stare every time.
Liberal Oakland instituted uniform Dress Codes several years ago, under Mayor Jerry Brown, believe it or not. And it turned out that the parents loved it! The biggest selling point was that they no longer had spend big bucks keeping up with the latest fashions. Everyone now wears khaki pants or a khaki skirt with a green top. Simple and inexpensive.
And the kids look a lot better too ;-)
Every third world country we've been in, we have seen very poor children in uniforms and they look darling! Plus it makes them look BETTER and WEALTHIER.
As a college professor, no disagreement about slacks and a shirt or turtleneck. But a tie and jacket, difficult for me.
I move around a lot and start at one end of the whiteboard
and go to the other by the end of the 50 minute lecture.
But the SCHOOL bureaucrats DEMAND iron-clad, explicit, specific, by-the-1/4 inch rules so THEY do have to use THEIR judgement in front of parents who refuse to use THEIR judgement. (Or never had it in the first place.)
And the liberal socialist “thought police” use every one of those arguments to get ALL rules thrown out. Except what the liberal socialists demand in their policies!
At the local high school just down the block from me what passes for ‘’school dress’’ looks like try-outs for an MTV video. All it says to me is a kid saying “I dare you to educate me’’.
The author uses logic to make multiple good points about joint responsibility for making modest choices. The main point he overlooks are the basic facts of human biology and sexual drive. These facts have been in play even back when showing a little ankle could cause a major scandal. The human male is easily visually enticed and the human female knows this. Also, the largest human sexual organ is the brain which can launch off into fantasy and imagination even if everybody were wearing sackcloth robes from neck to floor. Modesty is good and so is a sense of perspective that’s linked to biological reality.
We stayed at a villa on the north coast of Jamaica, east of Ocho Rios, circa 1979. Did a lot of walking. Very poor villages, neighborhoods.
However, each school day we could see waves of kids in different color uniforms, by level of school. Walking to and from school.
Very nice and something to see in the middle of a city or town.
At my prep school, it was sport coats and ties. Of course they didn’t expect me to wear red plaid pants with a green madras sport coat, purple shirt and electric blue tie, and yellow socks!
School Uniforms. Every public school in the US should be requiring a school uniform. Studies have proven that for one thing it improves discipline. It also takes away the gang colors problem and the status issue of poor kids trying to wear the expensive clothes and shoes. If everyone looks the same they can concentrate on their studies and not who’s wearing what.
ah, yes we wore madras shorts, very cool 61-64
Catholic boys schools. Shirts with collars, no jeans, no tennis shoes except in PE. Hair off the collar. and strictly enforced
We can't help it. Females are awesome.
take hormones out of the equation by having single sex schools.
We just got off a cruise and even though the Dining Rooms don't allow SHORTS and COLLARLESS shirts at dinner, MANY, MANY Sloppy men came in like that, and the Doorkeeper said NOTHING to them!! I said plenty to her and her boss though. Brings down the whole atmosphere when some pig is dressed like the pig he is.
A society’s first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word-of-mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error.
They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct.
Policemen and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society.
This failure to fully transmit value norms to subsequent generations represents another failing of the greatest generation.
- Walter E. Williams, Nov. 21, 2007
By the time the students are my age, they could walk around in a bikini without being an occasion of sin for any man who hasn’t spent the last year deployed on a submarine.
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