Back to school

[Lee]

I get the newspaper. I get the local TV. The back to school ads are all about how you dress, how you look, what you wear, what you carry.

I had 2 pairs pants, 3 shirts growing up going to school.

What is wrong? These ads imply you dress as a *****.

It's more important to look like a hooker and be in style, than to learn something??

I am so depressed. Thanks for letting me rave...........................

[paul h]

We managed to raise a daughter that dresses classy not trashy, didn't slather herself with makeup and was top in grades, sports and music. She's starting college next week. It's possible.

Here's her and her group a friends having a going away party a couple weeks back. Just a bunch of good clean cut kids that were having a blast roasting marshmellows to make smores.

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and load testing our trampoline

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[dragonrider]

My friend is a school teacher. Most of the girls in her class, 9th grade, dress like whores. She has sent many of them home to change into something respectable before she will allow them in her class. Guess what happens then, the parents want her fired for not allowing their precious little saint of a girl to express herself. JMHO but this is the fault of the entertainment and fashion industries but most of all the parents.

[runfiverun]

that must be the entire graduating class..
littlegirls H/S graduation took almost an entire hour, there was a big class this year.

yep, two pairs of levis, three new shirts, and a pack of socks.
i didn't even bother going to the store to pick them out, i just told mom my size,didn't matter what i picked or tried to pick [figured that out by 2nd grade] knew what i was getting either way.

i just gave the kids some money and took them to whatever store they gave me directions to.
never seen anything i needed to change after the oldest cut the sides of her pants,
and i told her to sew them so they weren't raggedy before she wore them again.
she didn't, so i lengthened the tear to the top [in front of 4 of her friends] while she was wearing them.
never had a problem after that.

[crabo]

We have 2600 in our school this year. There are awesome kids and those that are completely opposite in attendance. Just like adults. I think we just allow the ones that irritate us to color our perceptions of kids in general.

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

my oldest wears short sleeve shirts and ankle length denim skirts by her own choice , and most of her skirts come from bargain / second hand stores
dad is 10 times more likely to say yes to a new dress when it 3 dollars and not 30

she is also home schooled also her preference

young ladies need to know that conforming to social norms is un-nessacary and they can be who they want to to be.

you think the cloths are bad , there are parents who encourage the hole boy friend girl friend thing around 3rd grade , well it isn't so cute when they are in 6th grade and asking about birth control and the parents can't understand whats happening when they were the ones who arranged dates back in 3rd grade now realizing they have opened Pandora's box.

sounds like they need a song set to a Willi nelson tune , Mommas do push your babies to be grown ups, don't encourage the sexes , letum grow up in their own time, have fun at their own age , don't push um to grow up to soon.

[Bad Water Bill]

I grew up during and after WW11. The neighbor worked for a feed co. We raised White BIG ( 10-12# cleaned and dressed) New Zealand Giant rabbits for meat. Many a stack of grain sacks were swapped for bunny meat.

Mom wore the chrome off of her Singer sewing machine making shirts and shorts for the boys and dad. Dresses skirts and blouses for mom and sis.

I didn't know what a store bought shirt was till hi school. And none of us ended in jail SO FAR.

[DHurtig]

I am a member of the security staff at the largest high school in our state, enrollment of 2200 right now. It's not just the girls who dress like whores, some of the boys do to. I don't know if I could explain it to you so that you would understand what is Emo, or Goth or a Juggalo. You've got boys dressing like girls or in pants that are about 3 to 4 sizes to small. With the current warm weather as school starts you'll get to see how many kids are wearing monitors on their ankles.

You've got kids with tattoos and piercings and gauges in their ears that make holes so big you can stick your finger through them . Some dressed all in black with skulls and chains and spikes and necklaces with miniature brass knuckles. On Halloween you want to tell them " Nice costume, oh, wait, you dress like that every day"

You've got a whole staff of counselors telling them that it's not their fault. We've got one administrator who continually tells us to " Remember that these are some one else's children"
I always wanted to tell him that so were Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer.

To listen to their conversations, you'd think you were listening to the sound track of a Porn movie. F this and that F'ing thing. The F word is now an adjective that goes with almost any noun. Profanity has no shock value any more. 14 year old girls have a vocabulary that would make most sailors blush.

You wonder what their parents think of this until you meet them and find that the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree.

The way they treat each other is unbelievable how mean they can be. Constant abuse both verbal and physical. Sometimes it seems that politeness and manners don't exist any more. It seems that these behaviors cross all social, financial and ethnic boundaries. Don't be with out hope though. There are still good kids out there although they don't get near the attention they deserve. It seems that 80% of our time is spent dealing with 5% of the kids.

You can see changes in them as they mature from year to year and most of them will probably approach normal some day.

[popper]

Dress them like trollops and that is the way they act. Bad Water Bill - same here. Levis? No, Sears, and a new pair of shoes.. Store bought were for Sunday.
most of them will probably approach normal some day. After Armageddon?