I think Swoly is the only poster here who posts exactly the words that are running through his mind at the time. The Mind of Swoly.
My public middle school had mandatory uniforms, and allowed skirts for girls but not shorts for boys. This wouldn't have been a big deal, but I went to school in Miami at the time and it was f'n hot year round. It was a stupid rule with no real reasoning behind it, but the school refused to change it. Assholes
How about that a woman can look dressed up in a skirt but a man can't look dressed up while wearing shorts? When this kid gets to corporate America, is he going to continue to rail against the man because his female coworkers can wear skirts to work but he can't wear shorts?
It's freakin high school. I'd care a lot more about being comfortable and not sweating my ass off than looking "dressed up."
My school had adequate AC and it has nothing to do with being hot or cold. Its just a dumb rule. If kids want to wear shorts then let them. Guess what, they are kids and they do not work in corporate america yet. The point of school isnt to look professional, its to learn. Did you have to wear pants in college or could you wear shorts to class?
Well, I have no proof, links, or nothing like that, but I believe kids learn better when they're dressed better. I went to Pasadena High School when they started their dress code, my cousin went before me without the dress code and they had big problems with gangs, when I went their were no more gangs. I don't know if that happened because of the dress code, or I don't know if I think that because I didn't know any gang members, but you couldn't differentiate between gangsters and non gangsters by the way we were dressed. There were no rules against wearing shorts to the "college" I went to, but we were adults at that time, and education is a lot different after high school.
i would agree that dress codes keep gang fights at schools down, but if you had kids runnin around stabbing each other, i dont think the dress code was put in place to get grades up. i still will never belive that anyone learns better in pants and a polo than in shorts and a t-shirt.
The school administrators may have different aims than their students do. What does the school care if a student sweats his ass off? School dresscodes operate on a broken-windows theory. If everyone dresses seriously, they will take the school and their studies more seriously. The highschoolers will call that BS, but it's true anyway.
What if the school uniform was shorts for all? Would conformity to that rule still be considered "dressing seriously"? Would it still be more conducive with learning to follow the dress code in that school? It's merely a societal standard, IMO, and this kid's just questioning society's motivations through his actions. The real question here is: Would the school get sued for turning all of its children into gang members and homos?
Well no, if everyone was required to be in shorts, it would not be "dressing seriously." There's nothing terribly dignified about wearing shorts, whether it is compulsory or not.
SwoLy-D, please? You got none of these right: homophobic, redneck, threatened. I am a MEXICAN who follows the rules. Nothing else. I think JuanValdez said what I wanted to say. If I were a homophobic anything, would I go eat at Mai's? I didn't think so.
Nice try. Your posts were not at all about following the rules or school dress codes. They were about a guy wearing girls clothing. It was about being "normal" and not as you put it "WEIRD, QUEER, FAIRY".
