Dress code takes sparkle out of students' smiles (Mouth Grills, Stretched-Out Earlobes Proscribed)

Dallas Morning News ^ | July 10, 2006 | Toya Lynn Stewart

[Arec Barrwin]

I don't even know what a mouth grill is, exactly, I assume it's a silver fence with shiny jewels and baubles of some kind. Either way, can any student think this is proper for school? Or I am just getting too old...

[L98Fiero]

"That's why the 16-year-old aspiring rapper..."

Aim high, buddy.

[dfwgator]

Either way, can any student think this is proper for school?

If it's a reform school.

[Yo-Yo]

Google is a wonderful thing.

[brytlea]

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

[Hildy]

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.

[IronJack]

Note the cultural customs appropriated from savages: tattooing, piercing, earlobe stretching, dreadlocks, bones through the nose ...

Speaks volumes about where our culture is headed, no?

[brownsfan]

"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.

[NRA1995]

It's a great look if your life's work aspirations don't go beyond parking cars....

[dsc]

"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.

[Hildy]

headed? We're already there, my friend.

[GAB-1955]

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!

[Semi Civil Servant]

That's why the 16-year-old aspiring rapper and Arlington student spent $200 in April on the mouth jewelry known as a grill.

He's going to go far.

[Hildy]

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.

[Amelia]

Either way, can any student think this is proper for school? Or I am just getting too old...

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.

[RobinOfKingston]

Google is a wonderful thing.

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."

[GAB-1955]

My daughter picked that idea up from me. She tells friends, "Now, think of that tattoo on your grandmother."

[Joan912]

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.

[dighton]

“An angry individualism without worthwhile individuality.”

—Theodore Dalrymple.

[mt tom]

who would hire one of these walking freak shows their only job garbage collection or toilet cleaning