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Dad strips down at school board meeting to make ‘clear argument’ about dress code (www.kptv.com)

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[–] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Except anything can be distracting and there's a certainly a reason why the school girl outfit has so many sexy versions and lingerie. School uniforms are a terrible idea for many reasons. You generally can't buy then second hand, low income families now need two sets of clothing for their kids, and it is possible to buy "higher quality" ones from places like Macy's.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Obviously the schools should provide them.

On the other hand if there’s enough open market that you can buy them at Macy’s, there’s no reason you’d be any less able to buy second-hand uniforms than any other clothing.

So the options are:

You have to buy them from the school. That sucks.
They’re provided by the school. Now the poor kids are actually equal to the richer kids.
You can buy anything that adheres to the right dress code, and that’s your “uniform”. In this case there’s nothing stopping them from buying them second hand.

The only failure mode then is when you have to buy them from the school, at which point poor families are more put upon … assuming the uniforms are more expensive than other clothes. But it’s the same with textbooks, sports equipment, etc.

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you think would be a sensible dress code? Or would you say that all dress codes are bad?

I'm just curious. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You’re being downvoted because questions that might lead to a person changing their mind, if they honestly engaged with the question, are considered mind tricks by some people.

“Oh the earth is flat? Why do you suppose you’ve never seen a picture of the edge then?”

“Your jedi mind tricks won’t work on me!”