NP here. Wasn't there a thread on here recently (or was it on my facebook page?) that complained that Target doesn't even sell regular pants for girls anymore, just leggings? If so, this will make shopping a bit difficult.
My 7 year old wears almost exclusively leggings, and I am conflicted in general about the dress code. I went to a school where almost anything was appropriate (within safety standards like closed toed shoes and no exposed bellies in the science lab), and I think I was better off for it. People who snicker that they can see someone's undies should get in trouble for looking. Otherwise, it's a slippery slope to burkas, IMOP

I am besieged by ads for "yoga pants you can wear to work." I wonder how said yoga pants would be treated at Deal if I chose to buy them?

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+100

Thanks for the laugh. This thread was a great way to start the new school year!

9 pages on leggings.. I knew it had to be good...and crazy. I love DCUM.

Seriously! My 10 minutes of procrastination taken care of!

But hey, I am glad I looked at it-- now I can tell my 2nd grader who insists on wearing leggings as if they were pants that she can't do it, school rules.

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+100

Thanks for the laugh. This thread was a great way to start the new school year!

9 pages on leggings.. I knew it had to be good...and crazy. I love DCUM.

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Thanks for the laugh. This thread was a great way to start the new school year!

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Anonymous wrote:I usually just say it in my head....and somewhat affectionately I just have a hard time taking anyone who takes a ban on leggings so seriously, seriously.

I actually don't take the dress code that seriously. I take ad hominem attacks and intellectual laziness seriously.

I'm.definitely.intellectually lazy. College is over, thesis turned in! ))

Some.leggings dont just show a rear, they show camel toe. The school.is probably trying to make everyone pretty comfortable, at the expense of making you a little tiny bit uncomfortable.

Anonymous wrote:I usually just say it in my head....and somewhat affectionately I just have a hard time taking anyone who takes a ban on leggings so seriously, seriously.

I actually don't take the dress code that seriously. I take ad hominem attacks and intellectual laziness seriously.

Anonymous wrote:I'm.sorry I like.clogs.myself, so its really not rational. I just think of the parents with views like yours as 'the clog wearers'..its a little nickname that I just say in my head "CLOG wearer" when I run into parents like you who want your child to run free and unfettered without any adult limitations (other than what you impose of course) . I just picture you wearing clogs and painters smocks and playing tag all day around toad stools.

This is not any accurate than your prior post. You have no idea what kind of parent I am. You have no idea what kinds of limitations other parents impose and whether they want their children to "run unfettered," whatever the hell that means.

You have no idea whether I, or anyone else who is uncomfortable with one prong of the dress code (I'm fine with dress codes in general), is a permissive parent or a strict one.

In point of fact, I'm very strict. I don't happen to judge parents who are very free-to-be-you-and-me but I'm not.

Here are some novel ideas:

--A parent can be uncomfortable with a specific rule and be very pro-rules in general
--A person can challenge dress codes in their entirety (I don't but respect those who do) and have very high standards for her child's behavior, achievement, and moral character
--A human being can think that the contours of a child's rear end are not something to write rules about, yet require her child to dress modestly.
--There is a whole lot of daylight between opaque cotton jersey leggings and Rihanna

All of these things are possible unless you choose to see the world as a series of stereotypes and binaries.

Sincerely, an old fashioned, strict, religious, modest-dressing parent of a living breathing 6th grade daughter.

I usually just say it in my head....and somewhat affectionately I just have a hard time taking anyone who takes a ban on leggings so seriously, seriously.

but get incredibly righteous when anyone challenges your utopian, self realization world view.

Posting again to add: actually my world view (with which you are unfamiliar) was not challenged. I was responding to a statement that I probably don't have a middle school daughter.

I do have one, and this is not a world view. This is a fact. I have the orthodontist bills to prove it.

Keep up with the name-calling, though. It'll get you far in the world.

I'm.sorry I like.clogs.myself, so its really not rational. I just think of the parents with views like yours as 'the clog wearers'..its a little nickname that I just say in my head "CLOG wearer" when I run into parents like you who want your child to run free and unfettered without any adult limitations (other than what you impose of course) . I just picture you wearing clogs and painters smocks and playing tag all day around toad stools.

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So you think there should be NO dress code?

No, I think there should be safety rules. (Closed toe shoes in science labs, no flip flops in PE.)

Really, so girls can wear bikini tops to school?

At this point I am convinced that most of the anti-dress code posters do not actually have middle school aged daughters (or sons) and are parents of 3 year olds killing time on the internet.

Certainty is not an accomplishment. Smugness is not attractive.

Sincerely, parent of a rising 6th-grade daughter whose butt is not a public nuisance.

I have a nickname for parents like you... I call you the "clog wearing parents". You sit around in your clogs and sing kumbaya, but get incredibly righteous when anyone challenges your utopian, self realization world view. Do you also wear pajamas on airplanes?

Wow. That is profoundly essentializing and entirely inaccurate.

I don't have a nickname for parents like you because I have no idea what you are like with your kids and whether your on-line personality shines through with them.

I do have a nickname for people who are nasty, presumptuous, and smug: assholes.

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So you think there should be NO dress code?

No, I think there should be safety rules. (Closed toe shoes in science labs, no flip flops in PE.)

So thong bathing suits are ok to wear to school, in your opinion?

This is fine to wear to Deal, but NOT with flip flops if you have P.E. that day!!!!! (also? remember to wear this with closed-toe pumps and not scrappy sandals if you have chem lab!!! The combo of this dress and a sensible pump = a fair rule. NO one should tell my daughter what to wear, so long as her feet are safe for the activity at hand.

Safety first please!

Too funny rolling on the floor

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Anonymous wrote:

So you think there should be NO dress code?

No, I think there should be safety rules. (Closed toe shoes in science labs, no flip flops in PE.)

Really, so girls can wear bikini tops to school?

At this point I am convinced that most of the anti-dress code posters do not actually have middle school aged daughters (or sons) and are parents of 3 year olds killing time on the internet.

Certainty is not an accomplishment. Smugness is not attractive.

Sincerely, parent of a rising 6th-grade daughter whose butt is not a public nuisance.

I have a nickname for parents like you... I call you the "clog wearing parents". You sit around in your clogs and sing kumbaya, but get incredibly righteous when anyone challenges your utopian, self realization world view. Do you also wear pajamas on airplanes?

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Anonymous wrote:

So you think there should be NO dress code?

No, I think there should be safety rules. (Closed toe shoes in science labs, no flip flops in PE.)

Really, so girls can wear bikini tops to school?

At this point I am convinced that most of the anti-dress code posters do not actually have middle school aged daughters (or sons) and are parents of 3 year olds killing time on the internet.

Certainty is not an accomplishment. Smugness is not attractive.

Sincerely, parent of a rising 6th-grade daughter whose butt is not a public nuisance.

Are you also OK with boys' butts hanging out of their low riding pants?