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New dress code for Cherokee County, TX released.
"Lewd, vulgar, obscene or suggestive depictions of sex, violence, drugs or drug paraphernalia, alcohol, tobacco, profanity, death, satanic themes, nudity, hate slogans, pentagrams, swastikas, or any gang related or affiliated materials shall be worn at any time."
Hahaha.
Maybe they'll find out who actually reads the handbook.
That would be absolutley hilarious to see their face when the student
Yes, I saw that. It does not make any sence.
I know I read that to!
Seriously, What The ----!
I work for a school system on the east coast. This kind of crap scares me!
Should I worry, or is it just backwards rural Texas at it again?
Once again the big state with the small brains!
Repressive Hill Billies.
I live in Texas and all, but they definitely aren't as strict as that in my school. Boys can wear their hair as long as they want where I go.
It says hair can't touch the back of the collar, be worn in a ponytail, or reach over 3 inches on top of your head for ISD. So what if some kid comes into school with his mane in a super tight bun or weaved in a basket like form? lol.
I used to think that dress codes were bad, etc.
But you know, as someone who has started teaching but out of the classroom I am a bit of a non-conformist, I have to say these standards are not at all out of line.
Anything that distracts from the learning experience is bad. And these days, seeing the way that a lot of students can't express themselves and communicate clearly, I would say that basic standards should apply.
When you're out of school and out of a learning experience, I say "let her rip."
Sure, but in my opinion, the line is crossed when your rules cannot be followed without also impacting life away from the school.
By the way, there was a guy with a beard in my 5th grade class. He was 15. His 13 year old brother was also in the same class. The 15 year old was about the same size and build as our teacher.
Anyway, the beard didn't distract us at all. His size, and the fact that he was 15 did, though.
I'd always draw a "line in the sand" at exactly this place. Schools have no right to to control semi-permanent aspects of your appearance that control how you look when not in school, especially when attendance is compulsory. End of story, no further ifs, buts or maybes.
Also, haircuts are by definition not part of a dress code and never can be, not this side of hell freezing over. A dress code controls what you wear, and at a pinch might dictate that long hair be secured. Hair length is not clothing or dress. Ever.
If anyone disagrees with the above, they are wrong, LOL!
Just my 2 cents, everyone was distracted from learning anyway. LAUSD had those blue shorts/white polo shirt uniforms and strict standards on hair and makeup and yet there was still violence, nobody paid attention, and half my class either dropped out or failed. So heres my question, is this militaristic standard of dress really all that effective???
I tend to agree with sdwulfdawg.
It is unfortunate, but young people may be affected differently by long hair, piercings, etc.
For example, I listed to Rap and it has little effect on me, other than the fact that I like some of it, however a young person may experience the music very differently and perhaps not in such a good way. I know there will be many here that will disagree with me on this, (remember, I was young once) but I only speak from experience and I would venture to say that as many of the young people here approach my age they will change their point of view on the matter.
Again, such codes are unfortunate, but shouldn't cause any harm either. BTW, I travel through these towns occasionally and most of the people there are very nice and I doubt that most of them have any problem with my hair. I think they are just concerned with what effect such things will have on their young people.
jeffrey
I am 50 and I disagree with you. Dress codes are a minor annoyance, but hair length is not dress and doesn't belong in one.
Teenagers are not some beings from another planet, they are just younger than you.
The television ads for tourism if I recall went "Texas, it's like a whole other country" I would add to that "and sometimes we wish it was" Well to be honest there are some very cool open minded people in Texas, just not enough of them. As well they don't live in Cherokee county.
Kevin
While I can understand the need for some of these restrictions, the hair length ones are truly uneccessary. These guidlines are far more restrictive than the ones in my suburban Philadelphia shcool district back in the 70's. I now live in conservative Frederick County, MD, and there aren't these restrictions on hair length here. I'm seeing more and more kids with long hair, including my local church. It isn't unusual to see male altar servers with long hair in ponytails haging down over the back of their albs. I simply don't get the hair length restrictions, and I never will.
First some replies, then my take on it.
UK: Hill Billies are East Coast Mountain folk, mid to southern Appalachians. Texas would be Rednecks. Both group are proud of who they are, and their 'proper' names. Although some Hill Billies might also be [proud to be] rednecks. "Narrow-minded twits" might be more appropriate.
Cloudy: I was thinking the same thing. No one says that their hair has to be loose when 'measured'. twin braids that hang down the side of the hair and down the front seem legal. Its not a ponytail and does not touch the 'back of the collar' either.
Hegg: thanks for pointing that out, but [unfortunately] that was the press release by the Cherokeean [a local paper]not the school itself. Funny as that would have been.
Okay, on with the rant. A lot of places [towns, school districts and communist countries i.e. North Korea] seem to want to prove that they are not decadent, chaotic or changing for the so-called better. They like things the was they were/are, and will fight to keep it that way. To a point I can see their side of it. I may not agree with it. I might even fight back against it.
Its just the lame excuses and reasons that they give that either rolls my eye or sets my blood to boil [Quite the extreme in reactions, no?]. To roll my eyes it merely takes the whole "distraction" argumnet, is their school system so frought with autism that all others must look a certain way so as to prevent multiple meltdowns? Are the teachers incapable of keeping their focus on the subject matter at hand if a boy's hairs are touching their collars? Do they wish to teach their children that it is okay to ostrisize others if they are not a 'standard issue'?
Now to boil my blood! I'm a science geek, pure and simple. So don't tell me that certain things are just such a way because of lame pseudo-science. Kim Jong Il set up a program that stated, "Let Us Trim Our Hair In Accordance With Socialist Lifestyle!"
Apparently arguing that long hair hampers brain activity by taking either oxygen or nutrition away from nerves in the head and the brain and could thus rob the brain of energy. The lunacy is thus exposed. After the first half inch to an inch, hair is dead. The hair shaft does not draw and blood into itself, and therefore, no nutrients or oxygen. Blood vessels flow to the pore that is the root where cell division is taking place, hence the need for nutrients and oxygen. The root uses the same amount, whether half an inch or six feet long. Which is why North Korean women, who can have long hair, aren't dropping over brain-dead! So if everyone is being forced to wear the dictated style of 'The Party' and "Dear Leader", should we consider this statement the North Korean government is handing out: "People who wear other's style of dress and live in other's style will become fools and that nation will come to ruin." Strong stuff. What is North Korea coming to then?
Eric L.
P.S. Gotta get a good photo of me and my hair for an avatar.
I hope this is a typo, as I found this disturbing:
Lewd, vulgar, obscene or suggestive depictions of sex, violence, drugs or drug paraphernalia, alcohol, tobacco, profanity, death, satanic themes, nudity, hate slogans, pentagrams, swastikas, or any gang related or affiliated materials shall be worn at any time.
I think they meant.. Shall NOT be worn at any time?
However I think these rules are a joke and are too harsh.
Hair not allowed longer than collar length/eyebrow length. Personally hair that short to me looks shaved!!!
Exceptions to the dress code may be made for special events suck as pep rallies. LOL
Wow If this had been in German I would of thought it came straight out of the Nazi playbook.