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School Bans Leggings and Yoga Pants – Too Distracting For Boys
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Posted on 03/20/2014 11:52:18 AM PDT by MNDude

Let’s talk about leggings, shall we? They’re a controversial topic all across America.

Now the debate’s landed in Evanston, Illinois, at Haven Middle School.

I think I’ve heard most arguments about leggings: They’re too distracting to the boys. Inappropriate. Unbecoming. They create a lustful atmosphere infecting society and are, in some countries, considered illegal.

And while I particularly love this Utah mom’s approach to lighten the mood, I doubt this writer smiled as she wrote about the controversy.

Earlier this week, I learned that Haven Middle School students are planning a protest against a ban on leggings. A Haven parent forwarded this email, sent to Haven Middle School principal Kathy Roberson on Tuesday, March 11th:

Personally, I think this ban is ridiculous. It’s obnoxious. It’s insulting. It’s lazy and it’s offensive.

I have a middle school daughter. She and her friends wear leggings. And yoga pants. And clothes that don’t always please me. Am I a bad mother for letting my daughter out of the house wearing a shirt that doesn’t cover her bottom? Possibly. Does it confound me when young men walk around wearing pants around their knees or when a therapist wears a purple streak in her hair or when a teacher wears a diamond stud in her nose? It does, but only because those aren’t my styles and it’s my issue, not theirs.

What kind of confusing message are we sending to girls – especially young girls who see public figures (including the First Lady) wearing leggings and yoga pants and whose parents are usually the ones purchasing the clothes and whose male counterparts aren’t told how to dress their bodies but only what not to wear on them? Give me a break.

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To: NEMDF

Surely I am not the only one here who does not know what leggings are. And that pic in the thread.... who would wear that and are they considered “distracting” in a way that a clown might be distracting?

I don’t see anything “sexy” about them if that is the implication.

Is this code for “we don’t want to hurt the plump figured girls feelings”?


41 posted on 03/20/2014 12:21:10 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: SeaHawkFan

I am around your wife’s age and I wear leggings and yoga pants and yoga capris.......With a long top they are the most comfortable thing around. Put on a pair of high heels and a nice top and they are appropriate for almost anything.
Of course I see really really hefty girls wearing them too. Makes me laugh.


42 posted on 03/20/2014 12:23:47 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Responsibility2nd

Mini skirts were much harder to deal with.
Of course we didn’t have sexting, cell phones and the internet.


43 posted on 03/20/2014 12:24:29 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: sheana

Burkahs & veils.


44 posted on 03/20/2014 12:24:39 PM PDT by BigIsleGal (Wake Me Up When the Stupid Wears Off)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
He and two co-conspirators made multiple copies and distributed them to all of us adolescent boys in the neighborhood.

Did they get caught? Was it the guillotine or the rack?

45 posted on 03/20/2014 12:24:48 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: yarddog

A pretty woman is a distraction no matter how she dresses.


46 posted on 03/20/2014 12:25:08 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: driftless2; All

That was Sister Cleopha, the NO-NONSENSE math teacher, at Mount Carmel Junior High in Denver, Co ca. October, 1970; at the start of the school year for some period of time the girls were exempt from wearing uniforms (I guess so they all had a chance to purchase them or whatever); said sister commented ‘I will be so glad when you are all in uniforms, I am so sick of seeing BARE HIDES!’...I wasn’t sick of it at all lol!


47 posted on 03/20/2014 12:25:34 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Vote Republican! We're 1/10 of 1% better than the other guys!)
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To: henkster
Most girls I see anymore cannot differentiate between sexy and sleazy.
48 posted on 03/20/2014 12:25:46 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: MNDude

“Am I a bad mother for letting my daughter out of the house wearing a shirt that doesn’t cover her bottom? “

YES!!


49 posted on 03/20/2014 12:26:48 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Ouderkirk

Tube tops?
I used to love rolling those tube tops down on the girls ( with their approval of course)
Fun times!


50 posted on 03/20/2014 12:27:26 PM PDT by 9422WMR (: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
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To: Tenacious 1
Did they get caught? Was it the guillotine or the rack?

No, the adults never seemed to figure it out. I still break into cold sweats thinking about the curves on one of those girls. She is CIO of a major bank now.


51 posted on 03/20/2014 12:27:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Responsibility2nd

TTIUWP


52 posted on 03/20/2014 12:27:37 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I graduated high school in 1977. I still fondly remember tube tops...sigh.


53 posted on 03/20/2014 12:28:05 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: MNDude
Am I a bad mother for letting my daughter out of the house wearing a shirt that doesn’t cover her bottom?

Yes! Now come over here and get your spanking!

54 posted on 03/20/2014 12:29:36 PM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: MNDude
They’re too distracting to the boys.

Boys are going to be distracted by girls no matter what they wear.

Let's tell the truth here...Leggings and Yoga pants are too distracting to teachers and administrators.

55 posted on 03/20/2014 12:29:48 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: dfwgator
Sometimes I think having school uniforms isn’t such a bad idea.

No it's a GREAT IDEA. I went to parochial grade school K through 8 where uniforms were worn by all and parochial HS where jacket tie non jean pants were required. The girl HS (separated by a 12 foot block wall had similar but feminine dress codes.

There was never any clothing distractions and education was the #1 requirement.

56 posted on 03/20/2014 12:30:43 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

A few years ago, I was describing how pretty those girls were to a friend and he didn’t believe they could be quite that pretty.

I got out my old annual and it only took a quick glance before he said. “Dang they really are that hot”, or something similar.


57 posted on 03/20/2014 12:31:46 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOL! I was in 3rd grade, and the uniform was available at an area department store. So no such list existed.


58 posted on 03/20/2014 12:32:16 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: SeaHawkFan
My 58 year-old wife wears yoga pants quite a bit and leggings on occasions; but she has earned the privilege.

Two questions:

1. So your family doesn't follow Sharia law?

2. Are you going to post pics or not?

59 posted on 03/20/2014 12:32:19 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why not go to the root cause of boys distractions in school and just ban girls outright, along with women teachers?


60 posted on 03/20/2014 12:32:47 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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