Is there a dress code at mcps high schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Indeed it is, for the professionals who are employed there.

While you may tell your children that being a student is their job, you are presumably not compensating them for their school time with wages or filling out 1099 forms for them, or paying payroll taxes or unemployment insurance, or hiring/firing them at will or for cause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Saw this yesterday - kudos to these kids for pointing out the sexism of dress codes. https://www.buzzfeed.com/andriamoore/teens-wear-same-outfit-to-test-sexist-dress-code

High school kids have been pushing boundaries for decades. When I'm tempted to judge other parents, I try to remember that others likely pass judgement on me for parenting choices. We all just need to stay in our lanes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Saw this yesterday - kudos to these kids for pointing out the sexism of dress codes. https://www.buzzfeed.com/andriamoore/teens-wear-same-outfit-to-test-sexist-dress-code

High school kids have been pushing boundaries for decades. When I'm tempted to judge other parents, I try to remember that others likely pass judgement on me for parenting choices. We all just need to stay in our lanes.

What my child is exposed to at school is my lane.
It's culturally important for some to pray during certain times but they don't make the entire school have inconvenience because of it.
It's culturally important for some to be surrounded by modesty but when they choose public school, they agree to put what's culturally important to themselves as individuals away during school hours.

Culturally important and stay in your lane.are unevenly applied bs. It is up to the school to decide what is acceptable in their own culture- which is the culture of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing girls in what look like sports bras that come down 2-3 inches longer but leave a 3+ inch of bare midriff. Is that kosher?

Are you the fashion police????

MYOB and go back to your hole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Saw this yesterday - kudos to these kids for pointing out the sexism of dress codes. https://www.buzzfeed.com/andriamoore/teens-wear-same-outfit-to-test-sexist-dress-code

High school kids have been pushing boundaries for decades. When I'm tempted to judge other parents, I try to remember that others likely pass judgement on me for parenting choices. We all just need to stay in our lanes.

What my child is exposed to at school is my lane.
It's culturally important for some to pray during certain times but they don't make the entire school have inconvenience because of it.
It's culturally important for some to be surrounded by modesty but when they choose public school, they agree to put what's culturally important to themselves as individuals away during school hours.

Culturally important and stay in your lane.are unevenly applied bs. It is up to the school to decide what is acceptable in their own culture- which is the culture of school.

How about you MYOB. It's public school. You don't like it move your kid to private.

It's the resident control freak conservative troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Indeed it is, for the professionals who are employed there.

While you may tell your children that being a student is their job, you are presumably not compensating them for their school time with wages or filling out 1099 forms for them, or paying payroll taxes or unemployment insurance, or hiring/firing them at will or for cause.

Good one )

Also, obsessive modesty mom, no one is showing their tits. Except, perhaps, some of the chubbier boys at swim practice. No, I'm not fatshaming. That was just a tasteless joke.

Teaching kids not to be ashamed of their bodies or their appearance is probably at least as valuable as teaching them Chemistry or Algebra. If your son is troubled by the sight of a girl's bosom or legs the fault isn't hers. It's not your son's fault either. Or yours. But it will be healthier for everyone if he learns how to deal with that, and how the bosom and legs are also a person. You can teach someone to be modest in their OWN dress. If you want them to live in the outside world it would behoove you to teach them not to care what other people are wearing.

[Anonymous]

The real problem is the dirty mind of some adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but it makes sense, right?
My DD after school the other day;
Mom, some girl wore a shirt and everyone can see her nipples.
Everyone was staring at her. it was hilarious.

is this what parents and schools want?

You worry about the shirts your children wear. Other people can worry about the shirts their children wear. Also, speaking of "where are the parents" - teach your child not to stare at people or laugh at other people's discomfiture, because that's rude and cruel.

If you don't want people to stare at your nipples, then don't show them. I would argue that the fact that the girl was wearing a shirt that showed her nipples, then she must've wanted people to see them, no? Ridiculous. It's absolutely hypocritical and backwards to not enforce dress code policies at school and then expect that these kids grow up and move to the workplace to abide by them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but it makes sense, right?
My DD after school the other day;
Mom, some girl wore a shirt and everyone can see her nipples.
Everyone was staring at her. it was hilarious.

is this what parents and schools want?

You worry about the shirts your children wear. Other people can worry about the shirts their children wear. Also, speaking of "where are the parents" - teach your child not to stare at people or laugh at other people's discomfiture, because that's rude and cruel.

If you don't want people to stare at your nipples, then don't show them. I would argue that the fact that the girl was wearing a shirt that showed her nipples, then she must've wanted people to see them, no? Ridiculous. It's absolutely hypocritical and backwards to not enforce dress code policies at school and then expect that these kids grow up and move to the workplace to abide by them.

No.

[Anonymous]

We were discussing this in our family the other day and my college student claimed that you can get away with about anything.

I reminded her that she was dress-coded in Middle School when her shoulders were showing, and she said it was because another kid (who didn't like her) pointed out her outfit to the teacher.

She said teachers never initiate the dress-coding but they can't ignore it if someone else brings it up.

I don't know if it's true (and yes, she is African American, so statistically more likely to be dress-coded in general).

[Anonymous]

Most of your girls probably spend more time each week on their phones then at school. If you actually know what they are looking at there, you would be so past worrying about dress codes in HS.