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[Spicoli]

http://sharonherald.com/local/x918252591/Dress-code-lifted-for-seniors

Talk about a wishy washy school!
 Apparently the benefits of a dress code aren't all they're cracked up to be if they're willing to lift it for the senior class.  Kinda undermines their whole argument for having one, IMO.

[lifefeedsonlife]

Could be by that time - they're already broken:

Jacques Ellul, whose book "Propaganda" is a reflection on the phenomenon, warned us that prosperous children are more susceptible than others to the effects of schooling because they are promised more lifelong comfort and security for yielding wholly:

The individual has no chance to exercise his judgment either on principal questions or on their implication; this leads to the atrophy of a faculty not comfortably exercised under [the best of] conditions...Once personal judgment and critical faculties have disappeared or have atrophied, they will not simply reappear when propaganda is suppressed...years of intellectual and spiritual education would be needed to restore such faculties. The propagandee, if deprived of one propaganda, will immediately adopt another, this will spare him the agony of finding himself vis a vis some event without a ready-made opinion.

[Jayhawk]

My reaction was that if the dress code was so effective in improving academic achievement, then it's pretty stupid that the reward is to remove what supposedly caused the improvement.

Good girl. You've lost weight. Here, eat a box of doughnuts.

[precisionpest]

krispy kreeme!!!!! i'm in!!!

[NightmarePatrol]

I don't understand the process entirely. So they initiated a mandate and then repealed it for s specific segment of the student body? That whole decision should be made a part of the social studies curriculum, investigated and then dissected. I bet the results would be very interesting, especially if it was done by seniors and underclassman concurrently. A great lesson in politics it would be.

[lifefeedsonlife]

I love things that are arbitrary.

Nothing like toiling away in ambiguity.

[Kimmi]

I wish I had a dress code.  That would eliminate my 20 minute stare into the closet.

[lifefeedsonlife]

I've been weighing the pros / cons of Burkas myself. I mean - there's some folks I see at WalMart on occasion that I wish had chosen a burka. Ya know what I'm sayin'?

[CindyLouWho]

They gave us a dress code at work when we got new owners this year.  I was allowed to wear any color scrubs I wanted for years....any jacket I wanted.  They went to a solid color and everyone was bitching.  I agree Kimmi....it's not so bad!  I reach in and grab a top and a pair of pants and off I go!  I have an entire closet full of colorful scrubs and matching jackets.  Cute stuff.  But I really do like NOT having to think about it.  I like it a lot.

[CindyLouWho]

I've been weighing the pros / cons of Burkas myself. I mean - there's some folks I see at WalMart on occasion that I wish had chosen a burka. Ya know what I'm sayin'?

Oh I certainly do.

[NightmarePatrol]

I've been weighing the pros / cons of Burkas myself. I mean - there's some folks I see at WalMart on occasion that I wish had chosen a burka. Ya know what I'm sayin'?

I wish most people would but a full length mirror at Walmart and look in it before they left the house.

[Lifetime]

What I don't understand is that they originally said this lowered the problem of incidents and increased the ability to teach and learn when it was initiated. I thought that was the GOAL of this whole thing and not the "Beggin Strip" of the institution.
 
They wanted to eliminate the Clothing Show and press academics and civility. Now they opened a Pandora's box and this will be the challenge to not open it even more. You now have the HAVES and the HAVE NOTS again. I think the Year Book or Prom deal might have been a better "Beggin' Strip".
 
When you give them and inch...they will figure the mile. The other thing I thought was , this was LAST years figures.... AND it was a collective effort. Even the lowest of scorers in MED School are called "Doctor"...which doesn't make me all that happy. So what were the individual scored efforts? Maybe the freebies to a top percentage, but not the ones at the bottom.
 
Team effort is good in sports, but academia, I don't think.... as much. Each may go to college but individually and into adult life... usually the same way. 
 
Who does this score benefit the most??? The School and Staff ....for accolades and money? The kids.... for clothing choises? DOH!!! If they ascend to get higher scores, the ones who actually worked and not pulled along on the shirt tails of the workers, will get that Diploma and hopefully excell in College and life.
 
When they first sent out questionaires on the clothing issue, my wife and I never got one. When I went to the Education Center to ask why..I was floored. I had already put a child through the system and had none in at the present time. Hmmmmm They want to take MY tax money...the same as families with children in the system but... I HAVE NO VOICE? Now my School Taxes that I pay will go into Year Books and Prom Tickets?? Does anyone think this sounds ....well not so right?
 
I say... keep the "uniform" on them... maybe 6 hours a day maybe 5 days a week. There is plenty of time for them to dress DOWN, later. Quit using a tool for a better total school environment as Doggie Treats. 
 
IMHO

[Puffin]

Many corporations went to "dress down days", or "business casual dress" years ago.
It was proposed as a morale builder, productivity tool, and response to a less formal society.
My experience would be that it probably had a positive effect on the first two elements.
What stikes me as strange is that as a kid I dressed informally to go to school (even private school) but my dad wore a coat and tie.
While I started my own career and family I also wore a coat and tie, and mandatory white shirt! Kids to school casual.
Now we discuss  the value of kids going to school in uniform but the parents go to work casual.
I think it's an age thing.
 
 

[TiFeMb]

Puffin: So true. a few eons ago, when I started taking college to become a programmer, me and a couple of buddied came up with 'Business Friday'. We would dress for class that day just like we would have to for the real world. dress slacks, shirt and shoes plus a jacket. We were obviously overdressed for the Comics crowd! It helped us because 1) We had to actually buy the clothes and 2) We were comfortable in said clothes, so the ensuing interviews were a little less traumatic.
 
PS: When I first saw the thread title 'Dress code lifted for seniors' I thought there was some kind of law in Mercer county about what senior citizens could wear in public...   That would have been interesting...

[Lifetime]

Here was the original problem....
 
Guys... dressing like thugs with crotches down to their knees and walking on the cuffs.... add to that... the UNDERWEAR SHOW because they think the waist line is half way down their butt crack. I don't think everyone has to know the colors and style of their UNDER wear. They dressed like total clowns, not so much the color of the clothing but the manner in which it was worn.
 
Gals... dressing like what do they say... HOOTCHIES... Tops so small and skimpy their tummies BULGED OUT under the top and over the waist of the pants so tight that CAMELS come to mind  ... Not to mention the endowed almost poured forth with no effort or imagination...
 
There wouls have been no problem with VARIETY as long as they didn't dress like clowns with miss sized and utilized clothes. Nature tells you where the natural body dividers are... Lumbar, thorax, cervical.... and clothes were designed to follow that. Even in the days of Pegged pants and rolled sleeve T's they followed the NATURAL laws. Waist location to sizing. I am a larger framed (read fat) and it looks ridiculous to see kids in clothes I can wear. This is a time in their lives they should be looking forward and not just to that evening. These are the ones who wonder why they can't get jobs.... A lot should just look in the mirror for that answer. So many job fairs out there and what is the mantra..... DRESS FOR SUCCESS.
 
When I was looking for work...back in the first Recession of the 70's, I had the beard and long hair but shaved and got the cut to at least get a chance to get an interview. Now... afterwards (employed)... the beard came back but the hair got thinner. Short of one earring ( which I never wore to an interview).... all else was under my clothing. Piercings and tattoos are not wasted on just the new generation. The placements are the problem for some.... Ears that looks like chandeliers and facial piercings as well as tattoos up the neck or even on the face. I have no problem if you are in a band for a living but you will be a stockroom person if I ever was the one hiring. Albeit there are jobs that you need not be seen at all but you may want to expand your talents outside the back room. So, if there isn't a problem with the Tats and piercings, at least know where your waist is and where your tummy and endowments should be.
 
If they can't figure this out... looks like our tax money will be spread even thinner. IMHO