Required to submit photo of HOCO dress before purchasing tixkefs

[Anonymous]

This is a big controversy in my hometown- all "dress wearing students" are being required to submit a photo to the guidance counselor of the high school before they are allowed to purchase their homecoming dress, to ensure nothing inappropriate is worn to the dance.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Jail mentality. How about they let the parents do their jobs.

[Anonymous]

OP here- woah, I cannot type on an iPhone! Hopefully everyone gets the gist of the title

[Anonymous]

Thought #1: People sure are in a tizzy about the clothes that high school girls wear.

Thought #2: If I were a high school girl at this school, I would wear something that wasn't a dress -- either a skirt and a top or pants and a top -- and make sure to make the outfit maximally "inappropriate".

[Anonymous]

I am guessing that in your hometown someone showed up inone of those skanky trashy homecoming dresses that look like a stripper picked it out.

As I tell my kids, stupid school rules are usually the result of A) someone's really stupid action B) Someone getting hurt C) A pita complaining or D) a combination of the three.

[Anonymous]

^^^Actually, Thought #3: I had friends in high school who were boys who would, in response to this, have worn a dress.

[Anonymous]

All dress wearing students applies to boys and girls so it is not a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jail mentality. How about they let the parents do their jobs.

Umm...pretty sure if parents were doing their job, this wouldn't have been implemented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am guessing that in your hometown someone showed up inone of those skanky trashy homecoming dresses that look like a stripper picked it out.

As I tell my kids, stupid school rules are usually the result of A) someone's really stupid action B) Someone getting hurt C) A pita complaining or D) a combination of the three.

Stupid school rules are the result of school administrators making stupid rules. School administrators were not forced to make this rule. A skimpy dress is a skimpy dress, not a gun to the head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^Actually, Thought #3: I had friends in high school who were boys who would, in response to this, have worn a dress.

The policy says "all dress wearing students".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jail mentality. How about they let the parents do their jobs.

Umm...pretty sure if parents were doing their job, this wouldn't have been implemented.

By "doing their job", you mean, "forbidding their daughters to wear clothes I consider inappropriate".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^Actually, Thought #3: I had friends in high school who were boys who would, in response to this, have worn a dress.

The policy says "all dress wearing students".

Yup. They would have bought a dress, submitted a photo, and worn it to the dance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^Actually, Thought #3: I had friends in high school who were boys who would, in response to this, have worn a dress.

The policy says "all dress wearing students".

Yup. They would have bought a dress, submitted a photo, and worn it to the dance.

^^^Ideally, a dress with a lot of exposed chest, so that the school administrators would have to explain why it was supposedly inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

What ensures that the dress in the photo in the one they wear to the dance?

I would not want an unrelated adult to have a photo of my minor daughter in this context. Creepy.

[Anonymous]

I just wish society (schools included) would once and for all stop policing what GIRLS WEAR and concentrate on what the actual problem is.

Signed,

A mother of a boy who will teach him that no matter what the girl wears he is not to me a creep