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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The simple answer is that it is very difficult to get rid of a tenured teacher unless some misbehavior is suspected.  I think a lot has to do with the teacher's relationship with the principal.  We have a lousy teacher in our ES but she survives, and there have been complaints about her teaching levied for about 8 years.  You'd have to pay me lots to teach in MCPS, and frankly, I am unimpressed with 2.0 and the new grading.  [/quote]

A teacher of 35 years said to a girl in front of a class of 30+ students, "How can your mother let you out of the house looking like that.  You look like a hooker."

Just one of her more famous quotes this year.  [/quote]

I bet the teacher was right, though![/quote]

I think it all the time. I just don't say it because 9 times out of 10, mom comes sashaying in dressed like a "working girl" herself.[/quote]

Honestly, this attitude is so out of date, I'm boggled.  It doesn't not matter one bit what girls wear to school.  Who cares if a girl comes to school dressed like a hooker?  Do you care because you think it is disturbing for the boys?  Then you are prioritizing the education and needs of boys over girls.  It is not a girl's job in our society to present herself in a way that makes boys/men comfortable.  Boys are responsible for maintaining their own focus and keeping their hands and eyes to themselves.  My DD attends a high FARMS school and dress code is a MAJOR impediment to the way girls (and boys) behave in school.  Young girls waste a tremendous amount of time and psychic energy thinking about whether what they are going to wear passes dress code.  If it's even a close call, they then spend tremendous time at school getting hassled by various teachers.  And, young men are sent the message that the way a woman dresses justifies treating her like crap.  And teachers are wasting valuable time worrying about dress code instead of teaching.  And, teachers like the one you mention above are perpetuating dangerous (yes, dangerous, considering date rape stats) stereotypes.  All this when the reading MSA "Basic" fail rates are astonishingly high.  I don't care if the girls come to school NAKED, just teach them to read and freakng forget about what everyone is wearing.

Geez.  What century do you all live in?[/quote]

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