Give teens credit for being able to see beyond thong issue

Wausau Daily Herald ^ | 8/21/03 | Danielle M. Chahdi

[gorush]

I am a 15-year-old sophomore at D.C. Everest Senior High School, and I am writing about the Aug. 13 editorial regarding student dress codes because my mom always told me I am not to complain if I am not willing to take action.

[gorush]

Sorry, I'm speechless. Tomorrow's democrats and lap dancers.

[Chi-townChief]

Sounds like Danielle is pretty popular with the young men!

[FITZ]

The Britney Spears/Cristina Aguilera generation.

[Tax-chick]

"We want to dress like trash ALL the time. If we don't, we're denying our true selves."

Man, I love the public schools ...

[Constitution Day]

Man, that's so five years ago! Maybe in 1994 that was the style, but it never caught a girl's attention.

I see that Miss Chahdi also needs some remedial work in basic math.

[FITZ]

This is a girl who is threatening to drop out if she can't expose her thong underwear while at school. Where on earth are her parents? Just as moronic I'm sure.

[Roberts]

< Seriously, you must think that all teenage boys are the shallowest human beings on earth. Remember, this is a girl saying this. Obviously, if boys were concerned with a girl's thong, that's not all they'd be interested in, so it wouldn't matter what she wore. And in case you didn't catch that, I'm referring to other "womanly" features. A boy who focuses on a girl's thong or exposed stomach instead of studying has no self-control. >

Sadly, Danielle doesn't appear to have a father to teach her that teenage boys indeed can be "the shallowest human beings on earth" and "concerned with a girl's thong and other 'womanly' features". When I was in high school, the "womanly" features on the girls in my classes seemed far more important than English Lit.

It is nice to see that Danielle is smarter than the entire adult population based on her vast experience. She has a fine career ahead of her as a lap dancer.

[TheBattman]

PBG - Preganant Before Graduation.....

[Roberts]

Danielle unwittingly makes a fine argument for school uniforms.

[Dr Warmoose]

...Imposing these new dress codes just discourages students more from the whole school scene...
...that's so five years ago! Maybe in 1994 that was the style...

Well clearly school isn't about education.

[jonsie]

Miss Chahdi should know that her saying, "That grosses me out" is so 10 years ago.

[Lil'freeper]

LIKE, omigaaaawsh. This is, like, so totally wrong? Like, where do I start? Teenagers just want respect and stuff? Like, you know?

[Tax-chick]

They don't bother to teach basic math in school - that's what calculators are for. Addition drill would take time away from their really important lessons ...

They went through this in Tulsa a couple of years ago, and the kids sounded exactly like this ditz - of course, because they're just parrotting what they're taught in the schools:

1. The most important thing in life is to express yourself.

2. The most important things about you are the way you dress and what you own.

3. You express your individuality by dressing the same as everyone else, and buying the same things as everyone else.

4. Rinse, repeat.

(Even funnier was the girl at the hoity-toity "academic" charter school, who announced that students became pregnant because the school system wasn't conscientiously using birth control. I think the superintendent had some explaining to do!)

[Marie]

You are so right. I have a friend with three boys. The two oldest are grown and the youngest is 15. Last year his grades dropped from straight A's to C's and D's. She set up a meeting with the teschers to find out why. All the teachers were in agreement. "Mrs. Smith, your son has discovered breasts." Yes, she also went through this with her two oldest. Every one of them hit highschool and their grades went down and the phone calls went up.

I do support dress codes, but I really don't know how I would've managed highschool without my black trenchcoat, striped hair and safety pin earrings!

[witnesstothefall]

Ok, you can't learn when you're dressed like that. Now go change or you're grounded.

[FlyVet]

Danielle unwittingly makes a fine argument for school uniforms.

Which would solve a lot of discipline problems. But, they're not at school to learn, they're there to "express themselves".

[ItsBacon]

I don't even know where to start. She's been coddled all her life, so it seems, and the instant someone tells her, "no," her head explodes. Not all of my generation are like this, and I'd like to think that enough aren't, so that when we hit the real world, things don't get worse than they are. This girl's in for a rude awakening, though, and hopefully she'll be the better for it.

[gorush]

Good luck and thanks for providing hope. I really admire a person who thinks as cleary as you appear to at such a young age.

[Centurion2000]

God, are these people in for a rude shock of reality or what ??

[Marie]

Why don't you just trust me??