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
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