News 4's Erik Runge wearing one of the jumpsuits. (News 4)
Posted on 07/30/2008 2:13:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Gonzales Independent School District has new navy blue jumpsuits for dress code violators to wear during class.
But some people say it will make students feel like prisoners.
The district says it is just a way to keep kids dressed appropriately for learning.
Gonzales High School senior Jordan Meredith told News 4 he understands why there is a dress code. But he doesn't understand why the school district took what he says is a drastic fashion stance for dress code violators.
"I don't think it is going to work at all," said Meredith.
Starting this school year, if Gonzales students in grades 5 through 12 do not come to school in dress code, they won't have to sit in the office until their parents bring them a change of clothes or at in-school suspension. Instead, they will be given a jumpsuit.
"I think it is worth a try," said School Board President Glenn Menking, of Gonzales ISD.
He says the coveralls are a way to keep the district's conservative values intact.
"Hopefully we have some success. People will come to school ready to learn and not waste time having to pull kids out to go change clothes," said Menking.
He also said the public had plenty of time to voice their coverall concerns before the board voted.
"The intention is that no one will have to wear one of those," said Menking.
But some think it won't be taken seriously.
"I talked to some of my friends about it, and they said they are not going to obey the dress code just so they can wear the jump suits," said Meredith, who is also the senior class president at Gonzales High School.
He told News 4 he would follow the dress code.
The district says if parents bring a change of clothes to the school, the district will not put the student in a jumpsuit.
I wasn't much of a rebel in high school, but I can safely say I probably would have ignored the dress code as well, just to wear the jump suit.
“But some people say it will make students feel like prisoners.”
If the students get to play video games all day in an air conditioned building, they might start to feel more like prisoners. Prisoners would riot if they ever got fed the lunches my kids’ schools serve. The pitiful portions of food that tastes even worse than it smells for $2.00 a day is something that would never be accepted for the violent, scum-bag prisoners.
"C'mon kid. Time for Social Studies."
Kids haven’t changed, if they did this way back when in my H.S. they better buy a truckload of them.
You know darn well the entire football, basketball and swimming team will all go in and get one together, plus all the other little groups wanting to be rebellious.
At my daughter's school, if you break dress code, they give you a huge flowered pink pullover smock, looks like something a little old lady might wear to let out the cat.
They call it "being smocked."
I would much prefer to see you in a jumpsuit too if the alternative is seeing your BVDs or your butt (boys and girls now) or more cleavage than hooters.
How ironic would it be if the cool thing was to wear the jumpsuit and a defacto school uniform developed. Would the heads over at the local ACLU explode when kids decide they want a school uniform when it isn’t forced on them?
Aw come on now. You’ve never seen my butt. How can you say that?
That is funny...and at least the jumpsuit doesn't show boobs and butts. :-)
Responsibility has a point there. At least, maybe....
LOL!! That would be funny.
Good to see you, btw! Hope you’re having a great summer! :-)
In fact, if everyone in school wore plain practical clothes, simple uniforms, they could focus on the important task of learning the proper social skills for a global society and green math rather than classist divisions based on dress.
What kind of crack was that?
Imagine the school officials are actually running their schools instead of the kiddie inmates or their loser parents dictating policy
"my little darling daughter has ever right to dress like a tramp, err, I mean Lindsey Lohan "
That crap has got to stop, the ACLU will be pissed < / s>
Sorry. I’ll BUTT out now.
It would be better if they were made of paper, like the ones in doctors offices.
That was brief.
Are the tax payers forced to pay for all these jump suits? Who is washing them? Who pays for that, and who pays to replace them?
No doubt if you follow the money, the manufacture of these jump suits are probably connected to someone at the school board.
They should probably consider forcing the kids to wear hats too, for hair styles they dislike.
To bad government schools just can't educate the students.
The girls could get some relief from the heat by wearing short skirts (i.e. mid-thigh), but the boys had to suffer in their jeans. So after a couple of weeks of misery, one of the boys showed up for class one morning in a miniskirt. The principal blew a gasket and hustled the kid to his air-conditioned office for a lecture and detention. The kid was the school hero for a few weeks, and the principal revised the dress code to allow modest shorts. By then, the worst of the heat was over, but it was still a victory.
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