Is there a dress code at mcps high schools?

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer that my kid in second period math wasn't sitting in the chair where your child's exposed butt cheeks were in first period.

Woman who has never ridden the metro or a public bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would prefer that my kid in second period math wasn't sitting in the chair where your child's exposed butt cheeks were in first period.

So tell your kid to wear long pants, or long shorts, or a long skirt.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

That’s what some people use to deflect, but the reality is people judge you by how you look and what you wear even before you have a chance to demonstrate who you are. Plus, women with legit confidence and intellect don’t typically dress inappropriately.

For me, I think our schools have simply lost control. Kids need rules and structure as they develop. It should be easy to set standards and enforce rules, yet our schools seemingly have subpar standards.

If you want to be a person who judges women based on how much skin their clothes expose or don't expose, go right ahead, that's your choice.

No.. I do! And men too! People who haven't learned to dress appropriately for the situation are immature, at best.

High school isn't a 'professional' setting. It's very social. It's very formative. What they wear has no impact on learning. And a lot of their choices are tied to cultures you don't understand and don't need to. I don't mean ethnically, although there is that too. Let them have their fun.

And fwiw, have you ever seen what kids wear at the really elite privates? St Ann's? Sidwell? Germantown Friends?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

That's really funny. My DD remembers a girl on her bus that would get on with "appropriate" clothing and no make-up. By the time they got to school, the girl had whipped off her "appropriate" clothes to reveal what she really wanted to wear to school underneath the clothes she left her house in and had a full face of make-up. What exactly is a parent to do ? Try having a teenage girl first before you judge the parents.

If the school called the parent, then the parent would be on notice that Sarah Cameron was pulling this nonsense on the bus ride. Now they can take action.

Duh.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

That’s what some people use to deflect, but the reality is people judge you by how you look and what you wear even before you have a chance to demonstrate who you are. Plus, women with legit confidence and intellect don’t typically dress inappropriately.

For me, I think our schools have simply lost control. Kids need rules and structure as they develop. It should be easy to set standards and enforce rules, yet our schools seemingly have subpar standards.

If you want to be a person who judges women based on how much skin their clothes expose or don't expose, go right ahead, that's your choice.

No.. I do! And men too! People who haven't learned to dress appropriately for the situation are immature, at best.

High school isn't a 'professional' setting. It's very social. It's very formative. What they wear has no impact on learning. And a lot of their choices are tied to cultures you don't understand and don't need to. I don't mean ethnically, although there is that too. Let them have their fun.

And fwiw, have you ever seen what kids wear at the really elite privates? St Ann's? Sidwell? Germantown Friends?

I went to a private school and wore a uniform. If I was out of uniform, the dean of discipline pulled me aside. There were consequences.

[Anonymous]

Their parents are probably already at work.

As long as they wear a mask, I am happy.

[Anonymous]

1) Black girls and Latina get dresscoded more often than white girls in the same outfit. Curvier white girls get dresscoded more than thin ones.
2) A make staff member who says something risks being labeled a pervert so he will ask female staff to do it. Eventually, the female staff resent having to be the clothing police so they refuse. No better way to start your day than to make a 14 year old sob because your male AP is forcing you to tell a girl to put a sweater over her spaghetti straps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

That’s what some people use to deflect, but the reality is people judge you by how you look and what you wear even before you have a chance to demonstrate who you are. Plus, women with legit confidence and intellect don’t typically dress inappropriately.

For me, I think our schools have simply lost control. Kids need rules and structure as they develop. It should be easy to set standards and enforce rules, yet our schools seemingly have subpar standards.

If you want to be a person who judges women based on how much skin their clothes expose or don't expose, go right ahead, that's your choice.

No.. I do! And men too! People who haven't learned to dress appropriately for the situation are immature, at best.

High school isn't a 'professional' setting. It's very social. It's very formative. What they wear has no impact on learning. And a lot of their choices are tied to cultures you don't understand and don't need to. I don't mean ethnically, although there is that too. Let them have their fun.

And fwiw, have you ever seen what kids wear at the really elite privates? St Ann's? Sidwell? Germantown Friends?

I went to a private school and wore a uniform. If I was out of uniform, the dean of discipline pulled me aside. There were consequences.

In the USA?

[Anonymous]

Amazing how worked up people here are about what other people wear. That’s exactly why they don’t have a dress code anymore about length of shorts or shoulder straps or bare midriffs. You know who really doesn’t care? The kids. I’m a teacher and I’m happy about the change. You know what else didn’t meet the old dress codes? Some of the athletic uniforms. It was pretty irritating to be supposed to dress code a kid wearing shorts longer then the Poms minidresses.

Move along. Go take your out dated values and find something different to complain about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

What you wear affects both how you think and how you act. School is her work and she should arrive dressed for work, not for shady "extracurriculars."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

That’s what some people use to deflect, but the reality is people judge you by how you look and what you wear even before you have a chance to demonstrate who you are. Plus, women with legit confidence and intellect don’t typically dress inappropriately.

For me, I think our schools have simply lost control. Kids need rules and structure as they develop. It should be easy to set standards and enforce rules, yet our schools seemingly have subpar standards.

If you want to be a person who judges women based on how much skin their clothes expose or don't expose, go right ahead, that's your choice.

No.. I do! And men too! People who haven't learned to dress appropriately for the situation are immature, at best.

High school isn't a 'professional' setting. It's very social. It's very formative. What they wear has no impact on learning. And a lot of their choices are tied to cultures you don't understand and don't need to. I don't mean ethnically, although there is that too. Let them have their fun.

And fwiw, have you ever seen what kids wear at the really elite privates? St Ann's? Sidwell? Germantown Friends?

Well, that is the problem right there. Why should it be OK for teenagers to wear underwear to school, but not to their future office? What is the difference? In both settings, people are expected to work.

And no one is wearing thongs or sports bras to class at Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would prefer that my kid in second period math wasn't sitting in the chair where your child's exposed butt cheeks were in first period.

So tell your kid to wear long pants, or long shorts, or a long skirt.

Not getting other peoples body fluids and fecal matter on your jeans is such privilege

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing how worked up people here are about what other people wear. That’s exactly why they don’t have a dress code anymore about length of shorts or shoulder straps or bare midriffs. You know who really doesn’t care? The kids. I’m a teacher and I’m happy about the change. You know what else didn’t meet the old dress codes? Some of the athletic uniforms. It was pretty irritating to be supposed to dress code a kid wearing shorts longer then the Poms minidresses.

Move along. Go take your out dated values and find something different to complain about.

Telling people what their values should and shouldn't be is outdated values

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Well, that is the problem right there. Why should it be OK for teenagers to wear underwear to school, but not to their future office? What is the difference? In both settings, people are expected to work.

And no one is wearing thongs or sports bras to class at Sidwell.

Let's leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine similarities and differences between students at a high school and employees at an office.

I don't care what students wear or don't wear at Sidwell; this is the MCPS forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

That’s what some people use to deflect, but the reality is people judge you by how you look and what you wear even before you have a chance to demonstrate who you are. Plus, women with legit confidence and intellect don’t typically dress inappropriately.

For me, I think our schools have simply lost control. Kids need rules and structure as they develop. It should be easy to set standards and enforce rules, yet our schools seemingly have subpar standards.

If you want to be a person who judges women based on how much skin their clothes expose or don't expose, go right ahead, that's your choice.

No.. I do! And men too! People who haven't learned to dress appropriately for the situation are immature, at best.

High school isn't a 'professional' setting. It's very social. It's very formative. What they wear has no impact on learning. And a lot of their choices are tied to cultures you don't understand and don't need to. I don't mean ethnically, although there is that too. Let them have their fun.

And fwiw, have you ever seen what kids wear at the really elite privates? St Ann's? Sidwell? Germantown Friends?

High school is, indeed, a professional setting. You can tell this is true because "student" is often listed as a selection on forms. I always tell my children that being a student is their job. Sad that you do not. Please name a culture where showing your tits in school is comprehensively important to the culture.