Texas School District Bans Cleavage

[baldguy]

How could matcom have missed this?:

With a new school year about to begin, some female students in one Texas school district may have to rethink their wardrobes.
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The new dress code reads, in part, “The display of cleavage is unacceptable. Low cut blouses, tops, sweaters, etc. with plunging necklines are not allowed."

“It's gotten bad enough that, unfortunately, our young males are looking at more than their English book, their speech book, their science book,” says school board president Sherri Wade. “And it's kind of nice to have something left to the imagination.”
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more:
http://cbs2chicago.com/national/topstories_story_216101303.html

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Schools should just be clothing optional.

Especially for the cute ones.

:D

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

7. Seconded

[matcom]

2. so THAT'S why Texans can't speak proper English!

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[Fountain79]

40. Nice stereotype...n/t

[matcom]

41. joke dude

JOKE!

[Fountain79]

42. Got vertigo there for a second...forgot I was in the lounge...

my bad.

[matcom]

43. "our young males are looking at more than their English book......"

;)

no prob

[Earth_First]

3. Banning geology?

The tendency of certain minerals to break along distinct planes in their crystal structures where the bonds are weakest. Cleavage is tested by striking or hammering a mineral, and is classified by the number of surfaces it produces and the angles between adjacent surfaces.

[ContraBass Black]

13. Next they'll be against streaking and acid.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. OMG. Finally, it's come to this. Adolescent boys are checking out adoles-

cent girls. What is America coming to?

Way to foist your idea of sexuality on the students, Sherri. :eyes:

[elehhhhna]

5. BK, this is necessary & appropriate.

I drop & pick up my middle schooler and you'd be SHOCKED at what the gals are wearing. In 8th grade.

Ever notice as girl's clothes got skimpier, boys' got baggier? Hiding wood, imo. How convenient.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

9. The two trends compliment each other IMO

[elehhhhna]

10. LOL. This is how our 14 y/o neighbor looks, without the hat &

with much more skin :


In fact the resemblence is shocking. Hubs just pointed it out to me.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

11. The girl, or the scary looking thing on the right?

:P

[jobycom]

15. I so disagree

And my daughter is in eight grade in a Texas public school, so I'm allowed. The prude police are at it again, trying to revert us back to what they believed the 50s were about. Wait until they decide that pants show off too much of a girl's curves and require dresses. It's coming.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

6. Those BASTARDS! What am I supposed to do during those boring

classes now. . .

:hide:

[Iniquitous Bunny]

8. Perhaps the school district

should pay from breast reduction surgeries in order to combat the problem as well.

:sarcasm:

[LeftyMom]

12. Isn't it kinda hot in Texas?

Seems to me that a tank top or similar shirt is reasonable in the heat, cleavage or no.

[ContraBass Black]

14. Does this apply to teachers and secretaries as well?

Students aren't the only ones who offer an eyeful.

[elehhhhna]

16. hope so

[astral]

17. I think setting limits on 'revealing' clothing is reasonable . . .

when I was in school girls weren't allowed to wear items of clothing that showed bare bellies. Tank tops were prohibited but not necessarily sleeveless tops. Gals could wear really really short miniskirts if they wanted to, however. They were in style.

Kids need a little guidance in how to express themselves appropriately at that age. It should be up to the parents, but parents seem to think very little about raising a child properly is their job anymore. Just like a young person may need some guidelines about what is or isn't proper 'office attire' and you know as they get older and can't be bossed around anymore they will set their own standards.

But the same as with being given some chores and responsibilities to do, being given wholesome food to eat at home and some semblance of order (I doubt very many still eat together at dinnertime), it all helps a young person mold into a mature responsible adult.

Whether you let them express themselves otherwise outside of school hours is totally the parents' business and nobody else's.

[laheina]

23. Our dress code was similar.

We also had the "finger-tip rule," meaning that shorts and skirts had to be a certain length. Shoes are also supposed to be practical.

My personal opinion is that school should be treated as somewhat serious--like a job. But that's me. :shrug:

[Orrex]

18. Nor are students the only ones who peek, which may be the bigger problem

Just a thought...

[NewJeffCT]

21. that's true

but, sometimes it's hard not to look. Granted, I don't leer & drool... but, I had even gone into a local pre-school/day care facility and was speaking to the woman that was the head of it about my then 2 1/2 year-old daughter going there. (she's almost 3 1/2 now) I'm guessing she was in her late 20s and her shirt was nothing outrageous or anything - maybe a bit of a scoop neck. However, she bends down to get close to my daughter's level and it's like the only way I can look at her interact with my daughter is to also look down her shirt.

[xmas74]

31. That's how all the girls got their "A" in botany.

It was a known fact that if you had a decent body and wore a miniskirt and a low cut blouse on test day you would get an A. I didn't believe this and studied hard for my first test. I received a B+.

My second test I didn't study at all, wore the mini and left a few buttons undone on my shirt. I know that my score should have been a low one but I received an A, after a few minutes of having the teacher stand over my shoulder and look down at me.

I'm not proud but I do admit to wearing the same outfit every test day after that first A.

[Orrex]

32. My school had a strict "no miniskirts for boys" policy

You womenfolk get all the breaks.
:evilgrin:

[xmas74]

33. I know.

I remember how proud my parents were of my report card.

That was a really good semester.

[Fleshdancer]

19. Finally. A win for the flat chested! n/t

[NewJeffCT]

20. I blame it all on Janet Jackson

Ever since her "wardrobe malfunction" a few years back, I've noticed that cleavage has been in style among women... even in professional offices. I graduated high school in '85 and college in '89 and never recall any cleavage outside of movies in that time, or even in the 90s when I was in the business world after getting out of school.

[regnaD kciN]

22. Huh...???

“It's gotten bad enough that, unfortunately, our young males are looking at more than their English book, their speech book, their science book,” says school board president Sherri Wade.

And this just started recently...?

:wtf:

News flash to Ms. Wade: guys have been "checking out" attractive girls in school since at least 1968 (when I entered 7th grade). Somehow, I really doubt it started right then, either.

[politicat]

35. How about if the school board prezzie could speak good English, too

“It's gotten bad enough that, unfortunately, our young males are looking at more than their English book, their speech book, their science book,” says school board president Sherri Wade.

Dumb wench. That sentence should have been: "It's gotten bad enough that, unfortunately, our young (men, boys - not males) are looking at more than their English, speech and science books." (or English books, speech books and science books. The lads aren't all sharing a book (their book) and she is referencing more than one book, thus the plural.)

I hate school officials that can't bloody speak.

[xchrom]

24. ...

:eyes:

[ForrestGump]

25. In Texas?

I think Texas is one of the great spiritual centers of cleavage, a kind of mammarian vortex point on a planetary scale. They'll never succeed. The system will inevitably degrade and the dinosaurs will take over the park mammalian protuberances will again run wild and free across the rolling hills of central Texas...

Mmmmmm...Tejanas.... :loveya:

[alarimer]

26. And of course it is the girls' FAULT because boys will be boys

Who the fuck cares? It's high school.

I know, have them wear burqas; that's worked so well for women in the Middle East.

[jobycom]

30. That is EXACTLY the mentality

Eve is still tempting Adam. Must let Adam study his books, or else who will run things in the future? Eve?

[alarimer]

48. A simple solution is polo shirts for EVERYONE

male and female, students, teachers, whatever. Those things only have three buttons; it's probably not possible to "show too much". While I have some problems with the idea of school uniforms, mainly the suppression of individuality, maybe having uniforms of some sort would solve all these problems.

[elehhhhna]

34. It's even middle school. You'd be surprised.

Some parents are idiots.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. "our young males are looking at more than ... their science book"

And just why is our children learning {as said by you-know-who} science? Isn't the Bible good enough for them?

[PhilYerHead]

28. Ban bras...it's easier

n/t

[sakabatou]

29. They're banning butcher shops and anything that's split in twain

[BlueIris]

36. Um, let me set aside the sexist Puritanism for a sec and be pragmatic...

just where exactly are the girls supposed to shop for school clothes, then? I'm a woman who doesn't think low-cut anything looks attractive on me, and absolutely cannot stand plunging necklines, and for the past two years, I've had a hell of a time buying clothes, especially shirts, that fit. Because necklines that plunge to the navel and the outfits that accentuate them are kind of in right now and don't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. Poor kids. They're going to have to have their moms and dads drive them to other cities for their school outfits. ...egh. I can't even touch the rest of what's really wrong with this idea without losing my blissful sense of inner calm, so I won't. I'll just be in the corner crying for humanity.

[Taverner]

37. "Those nasty hussies are distracting our poor young bucks!"

Jeez :eyes:

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. Then I don't wanna work for the school districts in Texas.

:P :hi: Freakin' FReepers....

[Fountain79]

39. Just to play Devil's advocate...

I'm a middle school teacher. At the middle school level there are things that girls wear that I would expect to see at a club or bar on Friday night. It's easy to point to the rule and laugh and think "how silly!". At the same time though I can understand a school district trying to curb suggestive dress in the school.

[jpgray]

44. Your ma probably thought the same thing

I think sexualizing oneself is the perennial choice for teenage girl rebellion.

[Fountain79]

45. Umm...first off...

I'm a guy, and no I dressed pretty regularly. As to your other point...it doesn't necessarily have to happen in school. School should be for learning first above all else.

[jpgray]

47. I meant your parents' generation had the same exact views

And your generation rebelled against them. And grade -> high school the amount of time it's necessary to invest in studies is pretty meager--mostly, those years are about socializing. If you plotted out how many hours per week someone of average intelligence would have to spend to do well (3.7+ GPA or whatever), it wouldn't be very much.

[Midlodemocrat]

46. Probably because he's still sleeping off the scotch.

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