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HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - Classrooms were a little less crowded at Morton High School on the first day of classes: 128 students were sent home for wearing the wrong clothes.
Fed up with inappropriate outfits, the principal suspended the students for one day Wednesday, minutes after doors opened at the school. Those suspended represent more than 10 percent of the 1,200 total students.
The offending attire - including baggy pants, low-cut shirts, tank tops and graphic T-shirts - are banned from classrooms. Students were also cited for cell phone use.
"This was the worst year I've seen in a long time," said Principal Theresa Mayerik. "It's gotten out of control, and we needed to send a message that we're not messing around."
The Hammond school usually has 20 dress code violations a day.
Mayerik said the infraction would be removed from students' records in 12 weeks if they had no other in-school violations. School board members said they support Mayerik and the mass suspensions. "I'd be supportive if half the school was sent home, because 99 percent will get the message our schools are for education," board president Rebecca Ward said.

lol.

Sig Heil!

thats what you get! now appear more presentable!

I am sorry but I absolutely do NOT find this topic to be funny.

There have been a few studies over the years that show that when dress codes are enforced, students tend to do better in school. NOW, I am NOT going to argue it is because of the clothes that the students wear that the grades go up. Instead I would argue that it is BECAUSE the students are sent the message that looks and 'smoozing' of fads, is NOT important or what schools are about ... schools are about learning. The banning of the usage of cell phones during classes, is the easiest thing to understand ... they interfere with the teaching and the learning of even the simplest of subjects and should NOT have to be tolerated by either the class teacher or the other students.

So go ahead and make jokes about this article ... but ... put yourself in the place of the teachers, students and the parents of the students that were sent home. Would you want your child to get the BEST possible education they can possibly get or not. Sometimes education really DOES start with the clothes the kids wear.

Perhaps you need to step back a bit and look at the overall picture. When I first was reading the article I had a huge smile on my face. Imagine the parent's reaction to junior being sent home from school on the first day !!.

I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiments. But there is humor to be found there.

I find it funny that we at BJHS have not had, to my knowledge as office assistant, had any dress code violations in 3 weeks of school, yet we are in the top 3 public schools in the state when looking at academics...Strange...Perhaps it isnt just the dress code, perhaps it is the attitude of the students...

I always hated my HS dress code. We had Jacket, shirt, a tie. I'm not saying kids should dress like bums but common its HS, not the military!

Well, most teenage girls don't mind baring and most teenage boys can't help staring. Kids grow up too fast now anyhow. I personally don't want a Middle School campus to look like Bourbon Street in N.O.

School is not a democracy, you don't get to vote on what you wear, the School Board and Administrators tell you what's appropriate. Kids have the freedom to wear whatever they choose and the school has the right to kick you out. Same as in the Services.

Sorry but kids today dres slike thugs and whores. When I was in high school, I wore a clean crisp pair of jeans, a colored T-shirt (no images), sneakers, and a ball cap.

I didn't wear the cap backwards like some moron, I didn't have my jeans hanging off the crack of my ass, my t-shirt wasn't some diesgn saying smoke pot or 30 sizes to big, and lastly I was clean shaven or had a neatly trimmed beard and I always had a clean proper hair cut.

Every Wensday I wore my US Army JROTC Uniform. Wensdays were JROTC Uniform inspection day. On that day, I was always clean shaven and had a clean hair cut.

Today's youth needs a good swift kick in the ass and needs to settle down. I think I'm to mature for my damn age. I'm only 22.

I didn't mean to stamp out the humor in the article ... it was humorous to think that the parents sent 128 students to school in the morning, only to have their little darlings sent home without being able to complete the first day of school ... now THAT, IS HUMOROUS.

What is NOT humorous were the studies that indicate that where there is NO DRESS CODE, student grades are liable to be 10%-15% lower than schools where there is a dress code.

Most of the reason for this disparity has to do with how the students view learning in the school setting. Where the student has to adhere to a dress code, the student is more likely to view the school environment as a place to learn. When there is anarchy in the dress code, students are not as disciplined where learning is concerned.

As a parent, I favor anything which will help my child focus in on learning. The world is complex enough without shorting yourself a good education.