Number 2 Pencil: "When I say 'get dressed for school', I mean actually put some clothes on!"
OK, I'm not a parent, but I've been to the mall recently, and I call BS on these complaints:
Midriff-baring shirts, low-rise pants, pajamas and slippers will all be off limits this fall for thousands of student in Modesto. So, what will students wear? Several students that KCRA-TV in Sacramento talked with said they don't know what they will wear when the new dress code rules go into effect because almost everything in their closet does not comply with the dress code. Violating the dress code can draw a suspension.
"I think it is ridiculous. Everywhere you shop, there is nothing to get," said student Ashley Taylor. Student Alexis Thompson said the new school rules will wipe out her current wardrobe. "I will probably have to buy all new clothing for next year. It is going to be hard because pretty much all the stores sell lingerie," Thompson said.
I agree that stores tend to sell tummy-baring pants and shirts, but that's not all they're selling (for example, Delia's, whose clothes I used to fit into, has plenty of adorable stuff that doesn't show that much skin). It's not so much a case of students having nothing to wear as students having nothing of the latest, sexier trends to wear. Sounds like high time for parents to point out that perhaps such trendy wear, if it's bought at all, could be more appropriate for after-school events.
And pajama pants and slippers? Or boxer shorts showing under the pants? To school? Please. I know I sound like the world's most crotchety old fart here, but I would never have gotten away with wearing anything weird or risque in high school just by using the excuse, "Well, that's what's in style now!""
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