[operation clinton cleanup]

Maybe all hope is not lost....

[FormerACLUmember]

I LOVE Principal Theresa Mayerik! Someone who truly cares about these kids!!

[Abathar]

Good for her, I hope they keep doing it every day. I dropped my daughter off at her first day of HS Wednesday and even an old fart like me was blushing by the time I got out of the parking lot.

[MaineVoter2002]

I cant even believe school would start before Jerry songs "You'll Never Walk Alone". Terrible. How un-American

[roses of sharon]

Wow, now that's my kind of Principal.

Hope she ignores squawking parents too.

[Chode]

i remember a thing called a "Student Handbook" that spelled out everything in chapter and verse about what was expected of you to do and NOT to do in school.

[A knight without armor]

I don't get it in a million years. 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.

[jazusamo]

Good for Principal Mayerik, when I was in high school I think all principals were like her.

[Not A Snowbird]

Bring back school uniforms!

My daughter's high school just this year instituted uniforms for PE. Up until now they've been wearing whatever ghastly thing they wanted. Most of it was absolutely appalling.

[concerned about politics]

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.

Maybe they missed the memo. They were suppose to wear Soviet uniforms.
Don't worry too much about it, though. It'll be the parents fault for not following orders. The kids will get off.

[sgtbono2002]

Waaay back in 1958 we got ent home for wearing our collars turned up like Elvis and wearing "Engineer boots".

The boots left black marks on the floor, but I could never figure what was wrong with turning you collar up.

[RGSpincich]

I'd be supportive if half the school was sent home, because 99 percent will get the message our schools are for education,

While I support the effort, I doubt wholeheartedly that 99% of the students will get the message. They may comply but the message will be subject to teenage interpretation.

[leda]

i've seen the acceptable attire sections in h.s., m.s., and
elementary handbooks. its very clear what is and is not
allowed. yet, there are student ... and staff ... violators

... they are all sent home to change into more appropriate
clothing...

[coop71]

Styles, at least for women and girls, have changed signficantly this season. No more low, low cut jeans with a thong hanging out, no more belly shirts, etc. It's nice. Actually now t-shirts are cut much longer and mini-skirts are worn with tights or leggings (UGH!) under them. It's a nice change from the past few seasons.

Funny, many girls here in WV haven't picked up on it and still wear belly shirts, low, low riders, and bare mini-skirts. It's funny because they strut around thinking they're hot stuff, when in fact, they're just completely out of touch with what's in style, and more important, what's appropriate.

[freedumb2003]

Good for this Principal!

School is for learning, not slutting.

[Mark was here]

Too bad he did not suspend them on the 3rd Friday in September, or the day the State uses to count students for determining the funds per student, he would of been a real hero!

[GBA]

"our schools are for education"

What a great idea! I'm surprised that someone hasn't thought of that before.

[Mr. Blonde]

So you have to wear a plain t-shirt? I can understand not wanting halter tops and tank tops and such, but what is wrong with graphic T's?

[B-Chan]

As a preppie one who has always enjoyed wearing classic fashions, I rarely had problems with school dress codes, yet even I was once suspended from school for a violation. My crime? No socks with penny loafers! I tried to explain that one does not wear socks with penny loafers, but they didn't care.

This was in 1982...

[kittycatonline.com]

In the secret ACLU War Room, up on the Big Board, a bright red flashing dot appears over Chicago. "Commander, we have a breach of student rights!" The steely-eyed Commander, veteran of many a protest march, is undeterred. "Deploy." is the order.

In seconds the klaxons sound, the red lights go off, and phones ring around the nation, activating hundreds of Sleeper Cell Attorneys; who descend upon unspecting Chicago in a matter of minutes. Fanning out into the community, they ask freedom-protecting questions such as: "Were you told you could not attend school wearing your F*CK BUSH T-shirt?" "They sent you home for wearing pants but no shirt and you're a girl?" "You wern't allowed to bring in your dagger and you explained you need it as a practicing Satanist?"

After gathering dozens of such shocking testimonies of denial-of-freedom from downtrodden victims of the obviously fascist education system, the work of assembling the Mother of All Lawsuits begins...