Parents: It's All Thong [Teacher Bans Thong Panties in 6TH GRADE CLASSROOM-parents complain]

Sky News ^ | May 28, 2003 16:52 | staff report

[ewing]

A head teacher has angered parents by asking them to stop their daughters from wearing thongs to school.

Anna Roxburgh, the head of Hamp Junior High School in Bridge Water, Somerset made the plea to parents of 6th Grade Girls, ages 10-11.

In a letter she said she had no objection to thongs personally.

But she was concerned about the girl possible embarassment while changing for Physical Education Class, falling over in the playground or doing handstands.

Hamp Junior High is a mixed -sexes school with 270 puplis.

One mother said the letter was 'unbeliveable.' She added: 'Schools lay down enough rules without going right down to undergarments.'

Another said: 'I was suprised the school was not keen on thongs. I see nothing wrong with them.'

[ewing]

I must be living in the Dark Ages, exactly why does a middle school girl need a thong and why are parents complaining?

[Redcloak]

What's next? No group sex during recess? Sheesh!

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[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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[ewing]

This woman has found another job, it seems!!

[DoughtyOne]

Heaven forbid the teacher should complain about no underware at all. She'd be fired on the spot. lol

Society seems to be adopting the dumb and dumber model more with each passing day.

[lizma]

When my daughter gets to the sixth grade, I think I'm putting her in boxers.

Sexualizing kids really stinks. Another thing to fight.

[ewing]

Im surprised this school doesnt have a liquor store in the cafeteria.

[Fzob]

Director Michele Elliott said: "Thongs are designed to ensure that you do not show a panty line through tight-fitting clothes.

I learned something new. I always thought thongs were designed to titillate. They clearly can't be for comfort. And why are 6th grade girls pants so tight they need to worry about a panty line. The whole excuse sounds like some serious rationalization by some dumb non-parents.

[ewing]

This is what almost 10 years of Clinton has brought us.. it will take years to undo

[ewing]

No child (and that is what they are at this age) needs to wear clothes that tight.

[maro]

Sure, but I would leave that to the parents. I don't want the school checking young girls' underwear.

[ewing]

previous thread on thong checking administraor at school dance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/701935/posts

[ewing]

Of course the woman checking thongs at the prom last year is back teaching biology in the classroom!

[Paul Atreides]

why are parents complaining?

The parents are idiots who haven't realized that they are not 18 anymore. They are so desperate to seem cool and modern that they will go for any crap that comes along.

[laredo44]

I like it! Parents telling the school to stop worrying about their kids' underwear. Hey teach, try doing your job for a change.

[laredo44]

I must be living in the Dark Ages, exactly why does a middle school girl need a thong and why are parents complaining?

Makes sense to me. Let's ban everything you don't see a need for.

[laredo44]

Society seems to be adopting the dumb and dumber model more with each passing day.

Which means America is going down the tubes, right?

[lilylangtree]

With hormones raging in both sexes, I can understand the teacher's concerns.

[Tax-chick]

But she was concerned about the girl possible embarassment while changing for Physical Education Class, falling over in the playground or doing handstands.

This is ludicrous! If girls are embarassed, they can start wearing normal underwear to school, or shorts or tights with their dresses, like we did in elementary school back in the Dark Ages, and my daughters do today.

But what the (*&*( are parents doing letting girls this age buy and wear such disgusting things? Sicko!

[laredo44]

And why are 6th grade girls pants so tight they need to worry about a panty line.

I say burkas all around!

[DoughtyOne]

I believe that if you will look at morals of adults in the 1960s and the morals of the adults in our current time, there's very little evidence to be encouraged over.

In many ways we have the brightest future a civilization could desire staring us in the face. In other ways I wonder what this society will look like in another fifty years, should morals continue to erode.

[MatthewViti]

or condom dispensers in the bathrooms.

[laredo44]

With hormones raging in both sexes, I can understand the teacher's concerns.

And that hasn't been the case for, uh, forever?

[CharacterCounts]

The erosion of morals is important but also important is the denial of childhood by so many parents.

[Always A Marine]

The erosion of morals is important but also important is the denial of childhood by so many parents.

I couldn't agree more. How else to explain the desire of so many parents to dress their pre-teen daughters like street whores? I guess it gives them something to live up to.

[laredo44]

In many ways we have the brightest future a civilization could desire staring us in the face. In other ways I wonder what this society will look like in another fifty years, should morals continue to erode.

Would you say our future looks brighter today, or looked brighter in the 60's? Do you think the parents of the 30's thought the morals of the parents of the 60's were more or less degraded than their own?

[TaxRelief]

Our girls are in bike shorts under clothes (no chance of sneak peeks cause they're snug). LOL

Dress code at their school says among things: all nine-yr-olds and up must shower daily and use deodorant.

[TomB]

Somerset made the plea to parents of 6th Grade Girls, ages 10-11.

Obviously the grading schemes in GB are a bit different than the States. Ages 10-11 would be around 4th grade here.

[Calpernia]

I see this is Skynews; but NJ has a Bridgewater, Somerset County. Is this a story UK picked up about NJ, USA? Or does UK have a Bridgewater, Somerset County?

[GilesB]

"With hormones raging in both sexes, I can understand the teacher's concerns."

"And that hasn't been the case for, uh, forever?"

But what hasn't been the case forever is moronic parents sending their young children off to school in blatently sexual underwear.

The point you, and several others, seem to be missing is the teacher made a request and a suggestion - if I had a kid in school who a teacher thought was acting or dressing inappropriately, I would appreciate the communication - and make my decision about the worthiness of the request or suggestion....and if the suggestion was regarding my child's underwear my first question would be: "How do you know?". If the teacher's knowledge was legitimately obtained, I would be inclined to agree with the suggestion.

At any rate, the parents are complete imbeciles for dressing such little girls in such a sexual manner - they will be the same parents coming to you and me with their hands out begging us to help their "poor innocent little 14 year old girl" who is pregnant - the teacher was within the limits of her responsibility to mention an area of concern to the parents, the parents were imbeciles again to fly off the handle simply because the teacher made her suggestion/recommendation.

When the teacher suggests that the girls not spend so much time under the bleachers with the older boys, these same parents will go beserk again....on second thought, the teacher has probably learned her lesson, and will likely never raise her concerns with those parents again. But she will be sued when little Suzie Thong gets knocked up at recess.....

[DoughtyOne]

I'm not sure exactly where you are going, but thongs on ten and eleven year old girls don't exactly compute in my book. As young adult women, when they get to that age, I'm all for them determining their own lifestyle. At ten and eleven they are nowhere near that age yet IMO.

Pehaps you mean that the parents should allow those girls to be children longer. Well I agree with that. I do not think the teacher is out of line for asking the parents to talk to their daughters.

[Sonny M]

The parents are idiots who haven't realized that they are not 18 anymore.

Could it also be they are concerned that the teacher may try "checking" to see if girls are wearing thongs. I know if I had a daughter, I wouldn't be comfortable with the school passing a rule involving undergarments, considering, there has to be a means of enforcing them or knowing if the student is violating them.

[Paul Atreides]

I have a feeling that, since hip-huggers are popular with the gals, the teacher doesn't have to check. I imagine that the thong is sticking up prominently above the waistband.

[DoughtyOne]

Worse than that, little Suzie thong is being primed to appeal to a sicko segment of our society that they are not prepared to deal with yet. At seventeen or eighteen those girls will have at least some chance to avoid preditors. At ten or eleven they are prime targets for worst in our society.

I have always wondered what mothers were trying to do who painted up their daughters at an age when they couldn't possibly handle the world they were priming them for. What does a mother plan on her eight to twelve year old child doing when dressed as a 24 year old hooker?

[Ford Fairlane]

Someone posted this thong link on another page earlier today

The "what would Jesus do" thong

I considered posting the pic but I thought better of it - if you want to see it click the link

[Paul Atreides]

Usually, those mothers go out looking like hookers as well.

[Sonny M]

I would recommend the banning of showing of any undergarmant, period, no exceptions on anything, its simple, its strict, and it won't involve a over-zealous teacher "checking".

[Paul Atreides]

I remember, when I was in high school, hearing of a girl who was sent home because her miniskirt was just enought to cover her buttocks. Every time she bent over, everyone got their picture taken.

[nosofar]

Dress code at their school says among things: all nine-yr-olds and up must shower daily and use deodorant.

Sounds like their civil rights have been violated. You know...the right to stink.

[CharacterCounts]

Pehaps you mean that the parents should allow those girls to be children longer.

That's what I meant. Childhood is a wonderful time; full of wonder, awe and learning. Why spoil the last few years of it for a ten year old by making them grow up too fast.

There is plenty of time for thongs a little later in life.

[Paul Atreides]

I also have to wonder how a father could let his little girl go out, dressed like a tart. I know that if I had a little girl, she would go out looking like a little girl, not a pint-sized Britney Spears.

[laredo44]

To be perfectly honest, I don't disagree with most of what you've said. But here a couple of instances.

But what hasn't been the case forever is moronic parents sending their young children off to school in blatently sexual underwear.

It wasn't more than 150 years ago that wearing a skirt above the knee would have been considered "blatently sexual." More recently, wearing a bikini at the beach was blatently sexual. Now it's normal. When I was in high school, not that long ago -- or very long ago depending on how old you are, a senior girl was humiliated by a father that forbid her to shave her legs because only sluts did that. These kids are trying to shock, and adults on this forum are providing just the reaction they seek.

If the teacher's knowledge was legitimately obtained, I would be inclined to agree with the suggestion.

If the teacher's knowledge is "legitimate" I don't care what kind of underwear they are wearing, behavior inappropriate for school is occurring. This issue has nothing to do with thongs.

[Antoninus]

This is what almost 10 years of Clinton has brought us.. it will take years to undo

I sympathize with your sentiment, but this story is from Britain. Not as if we don't have that problem here, though.

[goodnesswins]

Ahem....a thong, to me, older person that I'm becoming....is something that could be considered a health hazard for girls that age (and older).....don't ya'll think? (I did read statements to that effect in a ladies/girls magazine awhile ago, by the way.) I don't know why they don't just use that as the reason to ban them.

[Jaded]

I believe in my child's high school hand book it specifies that girls must wear the appropriate undergarments. It's a matter of decency.

But parents buying their 10 year olds thongs? Reminds me of a girl that when she was 13 her mother took her down to get a tatoo. They both got tatoos. It was in honor of the child being promoted to High School.

[RasterMaster]

Seems strange these folks actually qualify as "parents".

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yes, you must be living in the Dark Ages :-) Thongs are absolutely essential for middle and high school girls, because nothing else looks quite so hot peeking out from above the top of their low-cut jeans (and per the article, this sort of reasoning makes perfect sense to some of their parents too).

[Dianna]

I would recommend the banning of showing of any undergarmant, period, no exceptions on anything, its simple, its strict, and it won't involve a over-zealous teacher "checking".

The article specifically states things like the girls doing handstands, falling and changing in the locker room. They are obviously showing their assets.

What I find disturbing is that these girls aren't embarassed. When I was this age, we weren't forced to wear shorts under skirts. We did it ourselves because the last thing we wanted was the boys getting a look and the hassle that came with that.

[Antoninus]

Could it also be they are concerned that the teacher may try "checking" to see if girls are wearing thongs. I know if I had a daughter, I wouldn't be comfortable with the school passing a rule involving undergarments, considering, there has to be a means of enforcing them or knowing if the student is violating them.

I guess you haven't noticed the great new trend amoung young 'ladies' and even girls to wear their thongs up above the waistband of their low-cut hip-huggers. No checking is required. The thong is right there for you to see. For the life of me, I can't comprehend why a parent would let their 12 year old daughter be seen in public dressed like such an absolute trollup.

[Arkinsaw]

Its not the business of the government to be determining what underwear styles are worn under citizens clothes.