Parents of middle school girls, please...

[Anonymous]

...explain to them that the shorts they wear to school need to cover their bums! They don't need to come to the knee, but if they're causing rear ends to hang out (or could if she moved in the wrong way), these need to stay out of school.

If kiddos want to wear these outside of school, great, that's your call, but please, please, please explain to them the concept of time and place.

[Anonymous]

Could you please explain why my daughter's clothes are any of your business?

[Anonymous]

OP, why do you care?

[Anonymous]

We will be glad to do that once parents of middle school boys ensure that their boys: bathe, wear deodorant, and comb their hair. Oh. And pull their pants up so their butt and their underwear are not on display.

Signed,
Mom of uniform wearing MS girl

[Anonymous]

Starting in on the slut shaming there a wee early, don't you think, OP?

[Anonymous]

My MS daughter hates the too short shorts but it is so difficult to find longer shorts (that are also not knee length). The GAP seems to be our best choice this year.

[Anonymous]

I am with OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Starting in on the slut shaming there a wee early, don't you think, OP?

Where did I say this makes your daughter a slut or deserving of anything associated with that? I didn't. It's just a request to follow established school rules.

[Anonymous]

Not OP but MS girl mom, and as moms of all MS girls know, developmentally they are steeped in pack-mode. The world will end if they don't replicate what their alpha-girl of fashion is doing. It's very hard to get your kid to behave if the others don't. If other girls, or especially the alpha girl, covers her bum, then it gives them permission to cover their bums as well.

Unfortunately the alpha girl of fashion often gets to be alpha in the group because she's the least restricted of the girls, and the most plugged into the mass media's idea of what's acceptable dress for MS girls. She's watching shows that the other kids are not allowed to, and uses that information as power to attain alpha status.

[Anonymous]

These kinds of short shorts are usually against the rules at most public schools. That's who you need to contact and have it enforced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Starting in on the slut shaming there a wee early, don't you think, OP?

Where did I say this makes your daughter a slut or deserving of anything associated with that? I didn't. It's just a request to follow established school rules.

Also to clarify, "short shorts" are no problem. It's just when there is literally bum hanging out that it becomes a problem.

[Anonymous]

I have a MS boy and girl. And I agree with all of the above - proper clothes, good hygiene. I don't think it's slut shaming. But there's a time and a place to wear shorts like these as well as T-shirts with holes in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a MS boy and girl. And I agree with all of the above - proper clothes, good hygiene. I don't think it's slut shaming. But there's a time and a place to wear shorts like these as well as T-shirts with holes in them.

+1 Exactly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Starting in on the slut shaming there a wee early, don't you think, OP?

Where did I say this makes your daughter a slut or deserving of anything associated with that? I didn't. It's just a request to follow established school rules.

Are you the principal? If so, it's up to you to enforce the rules. Are you school staff? If so, talk to the principal. Are you a parent? If so, talk to the principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Starting in on the slut shaming there a wee early, don't you think, OP?

Where did I say this makes your daughter a slut or deserving of anything associated with that? I didn't. It's just a request to follow established school rules.

Also to clarify, "short shorts" are no problem. It's just when there is literally bum hanging out that it becomes a problem.

For whom? Not for you.