I know schools must have a dress code but this is a bit ridiculous...

[Mskanga]

My kids get home today and the first thing the oldest one says is the principal says absolutely no pants that say anything on the rear, and no gang colors. I asked my 7 year old if she knew what that meant and she said she didn't. How is a 7 year old supposed to know? and how bad is it to wear a pair of pants with the word "princess" or "soccer" in the back? I can see if it was an obscenity , but princess?
I think the principal is going a bit overboard this year. I will wait for my first phone call if I ever get one because I will go right down to the office with my school manual and dress code in hand.
Oh , and I still don't know what the gang colors are, so maybe I am violating some kind of rule, I don't know.

 

[missyc]

I think the problem with words across the seat of pants is that it just draws unnecessary attention to a little girl's bottom. I personally don't care for it either. Especially when the jeans are low-riders or the shorts are short shorts. Know what I mean?!
Not as bad as a lot of things I see on little girls though.

 

[gymnasticsmom68]

I have a big problem with little girls wearing words on their butts, it's completely unnecessary and I don't want to give any sick people any reason to look at my daughter. They shouldn't be allowed in school.

 

[missyc]

Yea, it's the whole being/looking sexy in elementary school thing that upsets people.

 

[miste76]

I agree... It makes me sick when little girls wear words across their butts. Honestly, if my little sister (14) tried it, I would kick her butt.
It would be different if my sister was 18, but I don't think there's any reason for her to attract attention to her rear end. It's the equivalent of her wearing a low cut shirt and letting the top of her chest hang out... that's just not acceptable.

 

[MagicalMom]

I have to agree with the words accross the hiney rule. I wouldn't let me 13 yo wear them. There is no sense in drawing attention to a child's rear. It's kinda gross.

 

[Lucky4me]

I passed up many cute sweatsuits because of words on the butt. Not on my 9yo, thanks. It seems not everyone feels the way I do as there were few of each size on the racks.

They're so popular I bet the school has a hard time enforcing that rule this year.

 

[missyc]

Sorry Mskanga. Guess I'd think twice before I went to the principal on this one!

 

[Pugdog007]

Originally posted by gymnasticsmom68
I have a big problem with little girls wearing words on their butts, it's completely unnecessary and I don't want to give any sick people any reason to look at my daughter. They shouldn't be allowed in school.

Agreed.

 

[MagicalMom]

I just hope that with many of us parents not buying this type of thing the designers will come out with more sensible childrens clothes in the future. It's getting hard to find decent children's clothes.

 

[Beth76]

I have NEVER understood why parents would allow their daughters' to wear pants with words on their bottoms. The whole trend is ridiculous if you ask me. Sorry, but I agree with the principal on this one. Now, as far as the gang colors go, that's kind of a bit extreme if you ask me. Did they even tell you what the colors were?

 

[kadaten]

Originally posted by gymnasticsmom68
I have a big problem with little girls wearing words on their butts, it's completely unnecessary and I don't want to give any sick people any reason to look at my daughter. They shouldn't be allowed in school.

TOTALLY AGREE!


As for "gang colors", I'm only guessing from things I see on the news or read in papers, but that can be associated with things like having a bandana of a certain color worn in a certain way (like a red bandana tied around your right ankle, or a blue one coming out of your back pocket, etc.). Things of that nature than are meant to mark you as part of a certain group....

 

[Pin Wizard]

I don't go for the words across the butts either. To me it does seem inappropriate for school. And it's even more strict at DS's school. They can't wear a word on the pants at all! That's what I thought you were talking about. Not "Dockers" or any other word. Try and find pants that don't advertise unless they're the more expensive type.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Count me into the crowd that think children with words on their butt is inappropriate. If I was a principal, I'd be banning it too. Completely inappropriate.

Why would someone want their child having that kind of attention drawn to their rear?

 

[LisaZoe]

At my nephews' school, they implemented the "no gang colors" rule many years ago (my nephews have now all graduated from high school). Unfortunately, there were never any clearly defined guidelines for what would fall into that category other than certain colors and brands. It got to the point where my sister felt very aggravated doing the school shopping each year because some things that might have been OK the year before could have been determined to be against the rules the new year.

I think the school really was trying to do what they could to prevent any gangs - or more likely in our town - gang-wannabes from interrupting school for the other kids. The problem was, even the school didn't seem to know exactly what to watch for. If they saw a kid wearing a t-shirt with something on it that was interpreted as "gang related", the kid had to turn it inside out to wear the rest of the day and could not wear it to school again. I recall one year it was a big thing to have an eight-ball on t-shirts (you know, like they have in billiards) and, sure enough, about 2 months into the school year anything with an eight-ball was banned. The best guess we had was that "eight-ball" is a kind of slang term used realted to drugs. That seemed a stretch to me and I had to wonder if the next was that girls could no longer wear "Mary Jane" shoes!

Some other things that I can remember thinking were stretching the definition of "gang related"

* Hats worn backwards
* Boy Scout kerchiefs - too close to red bandanas, I guess
* Baggy coats (come on, when kids are still growing, their coats are going to be big when school starts)

 

[KimRaye]

NO WAY to words, Princess or otherwise, on my child's behind, or ANY other little girl's behind! Totally agree with the others on that one!

Ridiculous is prohibiting shorts, skorts or capris for the girls, but allowing skirts/dresses to be worn, with shorts underneath. Helllloooo, just WHAT exactly are skorts trying to accomplish with the same principle?!

Sorry to side-track, Olga.

 

[Betsyt82]

I have to agree...get the words off of the butts of kids. Really is inappropriate. I am having a hard time finding decent kids school clothes for my little girl.

 

[inaminute]

Sounds like it may be a system-wide rule. One that affects all grades through high school--not just the elementary school And, just because your seven year old doesn't know about gang colors doesn't necessarily apply to all seven year olds. What about the kid whose big brother or uncle or, heaven forbid, father is a gang member. You can bet that child knows all about colors.

I don't have a daughter, but I feel for parents who have to shop for them. I know I'd never buy pants with words across the butt. No matter how "cute" I thought they were.

 

[Megan's Mom]

Our principal didn't make up the no words rule it is in our student handbook. It is right there with no tank tops or tops with sleeves cut out and extreme baggy pants. The thing I have been trying to have them change is that there is a rule for the length of shorts but not skirts so the shorts have to be long but they can wear a shirt as short as they want and then let the world see up them when they sit down. For some reason I can't get any of the men to see things our way. (I don't mean that they are looking or anything)

 

[aprilgail2]

Originally posted by LisaZoe
I recall one year it was a big thing to have an eight-ball on t-shirts (you know, like they have in billiards) and, sure enough, about 2 months into the school year anything with an eight-ball was banned. The best guess we had was that "eight-ball" is a kind of slang term used realted to drugs.

8 ball is a term used for Cocaine...I am trying to remember back to my younger days but I believe it was a 3 1/2 gram packet. When those shirts came out I remember thinking "what parent would let their kids walk around with one of those shirts!"....