[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.
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[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I don't even know what a mouth grill is, exactly...

[Minutemen]

I don't even know what a mouth grill is

Picture a '49 Buick grille in place of your teeth.

[pepperdog]

I guess I'm just too old also. I don't know why, but body piercing, aside from earrings, just kind of makes me sick. Particularly bad is seeing it on food service workers. It just looks nasty, I mean it looks as if they are unclean. I can just visualize "stuff" dripping out around the studs etc. Can't handle it.

[ishabibble]

I am willing to bet my eye teeth (no grillwork) that this kid is a daycare baby.

Upwardly mobile "parents" are now reaping the fruits of their labors. Their kids are strangers because they were raised by strangers. A white teenager with a black gangsta grill in his mouth? Thank you, Career Women/Feminist Lackeys! Oh yes, daycare totally screwed your precious baby up...but hey, love the Audi and the timeshare!

Parents who put "career" over family need to be shot. Period. The child's place is in the home, and the mothers are ABSOLUTELY responsible for the children having to endure such tragic lives at such a young age. Stay home and suck it up!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[Disambiguator]

Rap is to society what rust is to iron. Anything having to with it is not edifying, IMHO.

[sean327]

This isn't about What is "proper" for school, I think it's about the future of these kids. What these kids fail to understand is that first impressions go a long way. What they think is an expression of their individuality (piercings, tattoos, wierd hair styles, ect) may keep them from getting the job they may want. I know that if I have a choice between hiring a kid who projects a conservative image, and a kid that looks like he went bobbing for apples in a tackle box, I'm going to hire the normal looking kid first.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

My son's elementary has banned camoflaged clothing. I support them. Schools should not be run like a democracy, the students shouldn't complain about "rights".

I wonder if the adminstration can even recognize the difference between hunting camoflage and that used by the military, though.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[pabianice]

Can crotchgrills be far behind?