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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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Honestly, this attitude is so out of date, I'm boggled.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]

Your whole post is garbage. Girls do not have the privilege to come to public school dressed so provocatively that they are a distraction

Sounds like you value girls' freedom to show some skin over the education of boys[/quote]

New poster but YOUR post is the problematic one. It’s not girls’ responsibility. Whether boys pay attention is on them. [/quote]

Yeah, this is an example of an overreaction. People are so upset about the idea that women for a long time had a lot of constraints on what they could wear that they've swung all the way to having no common sense.

If you send your girls to school looking like complete tramps, you're a bad parent and are actively harming the educational environment of other kids.

Couldn't we use your logic to say the teacher can call any student a whore that she wants? Whether the girls pay attention to the insult is on them!
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Dress codes are important. So yes, girls should come to school ready to learn.  Wearing something too tight or too revealing isn't conducive to learning.  Boys shouldn't arrive in "wife beaters" either - or with their underwear showing.  again - not conducive to learning

And let's face it.  Boys ARE distracted by girls.  It's a hormonal fact.  And some girls are distracted by girls as well.  So instead of getting all riled up about women's rights and subjugation and victim punishment, I'll ask you this:  How many of YOU would enter your workplace in a revealing blouse?  Would you show up with your bra straps showing or in super tight pants?  Do your male colleagues show off their new boxers?  How much chest are they showing off?

School is for learning. What they wear outside of the school is their business.

The excuses are alarming. [/quote]

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