128 Students Suspended at Ind. School

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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.
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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.
 
Chief Bones said:
I am sorry but I absolutely do NOT find this topic to be funny.
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Do you find humor in anything???? Almost every article in here you have thumbs down. Lighten up a little and find humor in life.
 
5.56X45mm said:
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.
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Need I show you my school picture? Im wearing a button-down shirt, and IRONED jeans. With a shell necklace to add that preppy factor. haha..But anyway, I get a number one buzz on the sides, a number 2 on the top. Im clean, I also have a goatee, but its clean. My T-shirt size is Medium, large if I feel like dressing down. My pants get stapled to my boxers if they are found saggy, and my shirt gets tucked in if its too long. Sorry, I just found the "kid" generalization a little, well, general.And stereotypical.
 
Need I show you my school picture? Im wearing a button-down shirt, and IRONED jeans. With a shell necklace to add that preppy factor. haha..But anyway, I get a number one buzz on the sides, a number 2 on the top. Im clean, I also have a goatee, but its clean. My T-shirt size is Medium, large if I feel like dressing down. My pants get stapled to my boxers if they are found saggy, and my shirt gets tucked in if its too long. Sorry, I just found the "kid" generalization a little, well, general.And stereotypical.
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Ditto man.

The most common things for guys at our school to wear are either button downs or polos.

Today was the first day of school.

I was clean shaven, wearing a Izod polo with a cotton undershirt and a pair of tan cargo pants with some no show socks and a pair of clean white tennis shoes.
 
5.56X45mm said:
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.
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What Luis said, times two.
 
The only positive reason I have ever heard for instituting a dress code is so that kids from less welloff families will not be made fun of if their clothes aren't the "hip new thing." Now, having said that I would like to say that even that reason is a load of crap because 95% of all dress codes involve buying polo shirts and/or dress pants, which are more expensive than a plain t-shirt, shooting that theory to hell and gone. If schools are going to tell kids they can only wear certain clothes they first better A.) Supply the students with said clothes B.) Buy 5 pairs of those school uniforms so that the kids' parents don't have to was them four times a week C.) They better not raise the local property taxes one cent, schools have better things to be spending money on than uniforms (school uniforms is step number two on my Roadmap to Communism). Now, about the "thugs and whores" comment, all I have to say is "Fubu". It's a cultural thing.

As for baggy jeans, I honestly don't know what they are talking about, baggy is on the way out, clothes that fit are back in, this must be a very strict dress code because I have trouble seeing 128 kids getting thrown out at my school of 2,200.
 
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Team Infidel said:
Do you find humor in anything???? Almost every article in here you have thumbs down. Lighten up a little and find humor in life.
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I find humor in most threads ... but ... I will always address the serious portion of an issue first ... part of the problem is that there are so many people that DON'T take anything in life seriously already, and I will NOT number myself amongst them (I was NOT the class clown and had no wish to be). That is part of the reason that the world is going to h*ll in a hand basket. No one wants to take responsibility for anything.
 
Team Infidel said:
Do you find humor in anything???? Almost every article in here you have thumbs down. Lighten up a little and find humor in life.
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Its true...You do have the red thumbs down in most of your posts...Do you just automatically click it before you start typing?
 
There is no humor in Mudville ...

C/1Lt Henderson said:
Its true...You do have the red thumbs down in most of your posts...Do you just automatically click it before you start typing?
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Part of the problem has to do with the situation in Iraq and the attacks in America by the President of the United States against our liberties and our freedoms, that has colored many of my posts with the red of anger. It isn't that I don't have a sense of humor ... it is that I don't see that much to laugh about when my friends and fellow warriors are dying in a war that I am NOT sure was justified. Another four friends have died in Iraq just in the last 30 days, and humor is the farthest thing from my mind. Their ages ranged from 19 to a ripe old age of 22. One of them leaves a wife and two kids, one leaves a young lady that he was going to marry in just 3 weeks. The toll now rests at seven friends, shipmates, neighbors and acquaintances - so much for the humor.

I do see humor in a lot of the posts ... I just don't feel like laughing though and haven't for quite some time. SORRY.
 
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