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Stop sexualizing schoolchildren! Every time you remove a girl from a classroom or embarrass her because her clothing might "distract the boys," you're teaching girls that their education comes secondary to boys' inability to control their hormones.
Story time: I was a tomboy in middle school, and when I came to school one day with a rip in my jeans (on the knee), a teacher made me wrap duct tape around the leg of my pants to hide it because it might be seen as "suggestive." Meanwhile, boys came to school with ripped pants and their boxers pulled out all the time, and no one said crap. I was really embarrassed that day; everyone laughed at me and made fun of me, and 20 years later this crap is still in the news!
SkyrimTraveler
Every child should just be forced to wear pants. School should not be a place to teach socialization skills, that's what hobbies are for.
SkyrimTraveler
I also had to deal with dress code issues in school. It baffled me that the admins cared so much about looks and so little about edu content
PrivateIsotope
This.
Puttzy
We just need more charlies. Then people wont like knees
swedishmetalhead
My teachers hated on me for the way I dressed. Long black leather coat in the middle of summer.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
It's easier to build a wall than kill all your enemies
Loser37
Wut
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
There's always going to be that one who can't control themselves. There's hordes of perverts. Might as well cover all the bases.
Loser37
Punish all girls everywhere because some dudes might be pervs? What do you want them to do, go to school wearing garbage bags?
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
It's not what I want them to do. It's what the pervs don't want them to do. If the board screens its employees even more strictly than>
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
ThisIsFrigglish
Just say it, Jim. Just say "stop hiring men". Get on the train you're trying to sidle towards without anybody noticing.
PrivateIsotope
More like start trusting the men you hired to be men and not pedophiles.
Loser37
I think he was saying "stop hiring men who are so distracted by children's knees they're unable to perform their job functions"
primarian
Damn your reading comprehension must be like level 1
TheBestSpiderQueen
To be fair there's no way to mix girls and boys without the boys being interested in the girls, but it doesn't really hurt girls performance
Loser37
That's why making girls cover themselves up is harmful. It teaches boys that it's perfectly okay to blame the seductiveness of girls for
Loser37
their own inattention or behavior. They should be learning to respect others and not be ruled by their hormones
SkyrimTraveler
There's a whole religion that disagrees with you, violently at that.
SkyrimTraveler
Respect should be taught at home, school should be for other information.
Loser37
That's just not how it works. Whether it's explicitly being taught or not, these are the years young people develop social skills
SkyrimTraveler
Yes but it's not the schools responsibility to guide social development. Schools teach follow the rules and conform, not critical thinking.
SkyrimTraveler
It's not how it works but it's how it should work. School is for basics like math, reading, some histpry. Social skills are a side effect.
SkyrimTraveler
Before socializing with peers happened more with after school activities, both school related and not. Kids got together for stick ball etc.
YeahLinguisticsBitch
Or enforce a certain standard of professionalism for BOTH genders?
Loser37
Dress codes usually try to claim they apply equally to the genders while stipulating things that only apply to girls. Ex: skirt length, (1)
Loser37
no bra strap showing, etc. The standards for girls are also set much higher. Girls can't show bare shoulders, girls midriffs can't be be (2)
Loser37
exposed in any way. The standards for "professional attire" are much more restrictive for girls. And don't forget the added difficulty of (3
Loser37
Having to rely on a market that doesn't design clothes for girls that will meet ridiculous restrictions. How easy do you imagine it is to (4
Loser37
find a skirt that falls below a girls knees in 2017? It's ridiculous.
YeahLinguisticsBitch
That's my point. Don't set the standards higher for girls. Make it so that boys can't show shoulders or midriffs too. Why should they?
Loser37
Idk, because it's hot outside? Why are we treating shoulders, knees, and midriffs like sexual organs?
YeahLinguisticsBitch
If it gets too hot in your building for you to wear clothing that covers your stomach, your school has a bigger problem than dress codes.
YeahLinguisticsBitch
And it isn't about sexualization, it's just professionalism. These kids are going to have to learn that bootyshorts and pants around your
SkyrimTraveler
And boys can't have long hair, earings, facial hair,makeup, nail polish, or wear any dresses or kilts.
Loser37
All of those things are typically allowed in public schools.
SkyrimTraveler
Not in texas schools, a friend is fighting the earings issue atm, and they implemented the no makeup nail polish for boys when I graduated.
Loser37
Well that sucks, but it doesn't really detract from the issue I posted. You're basically saying "it's fine that girls have all these