Oklahoma School Dress Code

[Clodfobble]

*shrug* It's not about the sports. It's about the gangs.

Is gang behavior a problem with the student, and not the shirt? Absolutely. But what is a school administration to do about that, when it is riddled with such students and cannot simply expel all of them?

My junior year in high school, they instituted a new dress code amendment--shoelace color. They could only be black, or white, or on some occasions brown IF they matched the shoes. All the white middle class kids were up in arms about their rights and freedom of expression and creativity and all that. Many of them wore rainbow shoelaces in protest. And the administration shrugged and sent them home to change as the policy called for.

Because, you see, having outlawed gang colors on clothing, the little gangbangers (about half of the school, by my estimation) had recently begun wearing their colors in their shoelaces, and an actual gang fight had erupted over this, which is what prompted the change in policy. It was about the reality of blood stains on the school floor, and nothing more. But policies have to be applied universally, or else they're not policies.

They should just put all kids in uniforms.

[Stormieweather]

I agree, on uniforms.

Both of my school-aged kids (one 2nd grader and one 10th grader) are wearing uniforms this year, due to new policies at their schools.

I'm delighted.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

*shrug* It's not about the sports. It's about the gangs.

Is gang behavior a problem with the student, and not the shirt? Absolutely. But what is a school administration to do about that, when it is riddled with such students and cannot simply expel all of them?

My junior year in high school, they instituted a new dress code amendment--shoelace color. They could only be black, or white, or on some occasions brown IF they matched the shoes. All the white middle class kids were up in arms about their rights and freedom of expression and creativity and all that. Many of them wore rainbow shoelaces in protest. And the administration shrugged and sent them home to change as the policy called for.

Because, you see, having outlawed gang colors on clothing, the little gangbangers (about half of the school, by my estimation) had recently begun wearing their colors in their shoelaces, and an actual gang fight had erupted over this, which is what prompted the change in policy. It was about the reality of blood stains on the school floor, and nothing more. But policies have to be applied universally, or else they're not policies.

They should just put all kids in uniforms.

For a while, gang signs were simply to have your head angled either to the left or the right. Kinda hard to ban that.

[monster]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

For a while, gang signs were simply to have your head angled either to the left or the right. Kinda hard to ban that.

But it's all went nuts when they introduced a third gang. the three gang system will never work.