32"... damn, that's ZZ-Top area.
Posted on 08/26/2006 9:58:44 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hammond Students Were Wearing Inappropriate Clothes
(AP) HAMMOND, IN -- Classrooms were a little less crowded at Morton High School on the first day of classes: One hundred and twenty-eight students were sent home for wearing the wrong clothes.
Fed up with inappropriate outfits, the principal suspended the students for one day Wednesday, minutes after doors opened at the school. Those suspended represent more than 10 percent of the 1,200 total students.
The offending attire -- including baggy pants, low-cut shirts, tank tops and graphic T-shirts -- are banned from classrooms. Students were also cited for cell phone use.
"This was the worst year I've seen in a long time," said Principal Theresa Mayerik. "It's gotten out of control, and we needed to send a message that we're not messing around."
The Hammond school usually has 20 dress code violations a day.
Mayerik said the infraction would be removed from students' records in 12 weeks if they had no other in-school violations.
School board members said they support Mayerik and the mass suspensions. "I'd be supportive if half the school was sent home, because 99 percent will get the message our schools are for education," board president Rebecca Ward said.
A round of applause for Principal Theresa Mayerik!
*APPLAUSE*
"The hottest, most sultry summer in recent history and yet I commonly see guys wearing two or three pairs of pants! Plus sweatshirts with the hoods up. Mercy I don't know how they do it."
I've seen that, too. But up here, you'll find kids wearing flip flops and shorts on the bottom and a hooded sweatshirt on top while they're waiting for the bus in the dead of winter.
Maybe these kids are confused by all the bogus Global Warming rhetoric they're being spoon-fed in Publik Skrewel? LOL!
To this day I have a fear of navy blue...
LOL - get together a group of us 'old farts' who went to Catholic school and the similar stories abound - much to the boredom of non-Catholic-school-veteran spouses!
Glad to have a new young FReeper on board, G8! Your insights on current HS goings on would be much appreciated. I graduated in 1983, and no BS was put up with in our school. Even yours truly got suspended twice (and I was a good kid!)
What's up with women principals any way?
During the 60/70's this was a mans job.
Now just because there is a correlation, it does not mean causation, or some other fifty cent words...
I don't know about it being a mans job then but it probably mostly was. In the 50's my jr. high principal was a woman and she ran the school with an iron fist. She was fair but you couldn't get away with anything. Then my high school asst. principal was female and she was the same way.
I was blown away about 20 years ago when a female asst. principal at my sons high school in OR okayed a birthday party on the campus for a girls club of some kind to have a male stripper for entertainment. The community about came unglued when the word got out but the gal said she couldn't see anything wrong with it. They didn't fire her but transferred to the administration office.
My problem would be t-shirts with a political or religous message. A shirt that says "support our troops" could not be allowed if a shirt that says "not my president" was banned. It is best just to ban all of them outright.
LOL.
What an injustice, she should of allowed the boys club a female ...
Todays schools are more about learning about Aids, how to do a Lock Down, and the evilness of white males in America. I think the Teachers and the Administrators share the credit. My feeling is the schools should drop special education. I feel a handicapped person should not have to learn how to survive, but should be given enough to be comfortable. This will cost less than what is spent on special education and provide comfort to to unlucky enough to need it. Next I would make anything above the 6th grade optional. Having students in the schools who want to be there will greatly improve things. Mandatory attendance laws were passed during the great depression to keep the young ones out of the labor market. Lastly I would repeal the privacy laws, if little Johnny flunks a class it should be posted publicly so the taxpayers know what they received for their hard earned money, like wise if Jimmy passes a class the taxpayers will know their money went to good use and they will have a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. The current system of keeping the truth away from those paying the freight only hides fraud and corruption. If you sent your kid to the mall with your credit card, you would have a right to know what was purchased when you get the bill. Taxpayers have a right, far greater that the systems need for secrecy, to know what was achieved.
You're too young to remember the 50's......LOL....when rules were RULES! And, the adults were in charge.
32"... damn, that's ZZ-Top area.
Isn't this the same brainwashing that you if an anarchist and outside the mainstream that you wear black. So your conforming to be a non-confomist. Did I even say that right?
Looks like this community voted right.
Yeah, when I was in high school rules were rules and only the favorites could bend them. I was lucky enough to be a favorite. We had a closed campus and when the assistant principal spotted me and some friends at a restaurant he just laughed.
Yeah, when I was in high school rules were rules and only the favorites could bend them. I was lucky enough to be a favorite. We had a closed campus and when the assistant principal spotted me and some friends at a restaurant he just laughed.
Yes, the good ol' days. Black pants, pink shirt (with the collar up) and a thin white belt. And, 'ducktails.'
I'd imagine that certain colors should be restricted also, being gang colors.
The Handbook went out the door
the day Mom and Dad hired a lawyer
and those stupid Liberal Judges
repeatedly found against the school
rules. FREEDOM of SPEECH expanded
to Freedom of Expression, and
therefore message T-Shirts, Hats,
Shoes, etal. were able to walk through
the door and down the halls.
In the school where I taught for
30+ years, even the young teachers
wore jeans and sloppy attire for
years. But, some parents finally
saw the connection and complaints
led to teachers being told they had
to shape up and be a model for the
kids, not stand as an advocate of
their "plaints." Dressing Preppie
is still looked down upon by too
many students influenced by the
dirtbags gyrating on musical videos
and commercial advertising.
This is good news! Schools are for education--not to show off your latest fashion!
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