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  • Posted By: abinadi @ 09/05/2008 3:21:48 PM

    So, I suppose you are defending your right to be crude? What I am defending is decency.

    • Posted By: CSCSR @ 09/05/2008 3:44:29 PM

      Actually I am. You have the right not to listen or look or whatever if you find my behavior crude. I will not force you to look or listen. But you certainly don't get to decide what is crude or decent for me.

      Again, we're talking about pants certainly if I were walking around without any you certainly can draw a line there. If I were speaking pornography to you or your kids we can draw a line there. Or even suggesting illegal activity. I just don't agree with drawing the line at some words on pants on your or anyone else's @ss. I'd agree with with baning a couple words like f*** or the n***** from a school setting. But I'd defend you if you wanted to put both on your @ss and go shopping. I find them crude but defend your right to be crude.

  • Posted By: AJLewis007 @ 09/05/2008 3:36:44 PM

    wow. I graduated early 90's. Had an earring & hair below my earlobes. My pants even hung down sometimes. Turns out I was not a "Classless little Punk", just wanted to be me. Still managed to graduate, went on to college & now work for a software company making great $. Too bad schools aren't as worried about Funding & TEACHING as they are worrying about words on a shirt. Who gave schools the right to decide a kid should not be educated because they want to be different ? ALL kids deserve & need an eductaion, or they all will be Classless little Punks. Just keep kicking them out, see where we are in 20 Years.

  • Posted By: woofa @ 09/05/2008 3:21:46 PM

    CSCSR, what is important is that kids stop acting like classless little punks. if you think it's not then I suggest you take a really good look at what this stuff is doing to behavior in schools.

  • Posted By: zombiemaven @ 09/05/2008 3:20:00 PM

    Good for them. School is about education, not clothes and hooking up. Let them dress how they want on their own time, not the tax payers.

  • Posted By: abinadi @ 09/05/2008 2:40:41 PM

    As long as your five children wear things that my 6 children can see, I have a right to tell you what your children can wear. I have rights too!

    • Posted By: CSCSR @ 09/05/2008 3:06:15 PM

      The only right you seem to be defending is your right to not be offended? Where exactly do you have this right? If you don't like the color blue does that mean that's the next banned item. See because red offends me and as long as I see your kids in red I have the right to tell you not to let them wear red with your logic.

      People we are talking about pants here. Learn what is important. When it's important then certainly some rights can be weighed higher than others. It's not anarchy anyone is advocating.

  • Posted By: abinadi @ 09/05/2008 3:05:15 PM

    The 1st amendment is primarily about freedom of religion. And, freedom of speech was never about profanity or crudity - never!

  • Posted By: truftellar @ 09/05/2008 2:15:58 PM

    whoa...can't we maybe revise or re-look this issue? seeing those girls with words on their toosh is one of the only reasons i still go to school. lets just settle down and talk about this guys. i'm sure we can find some middle ground to compramise on suitable solution that would make us both happy! :)

    • Posted By: tiredofidiots @ 09/05/2008 2:41:55 PM

      It's probably the reason for your horrible spelling and grammar too.

  • Posted By: wakeupanddieright @ 09/05/2008 2:22:16 PM

    I'm going to go on a bit of a rant here. I should also tell you I'm not a parent (so its easy for me to say this).

    First and foremost, act like a parent. I hated my parents when I was a teenager and now I thank god they were "mean" to me. Step one, if your daugter (or son for that matter) is weraing something YOU deem inappropriate, take it and throw it out. If they have a backpack on when they leave the house, dump it out on the floor. If they have a car, search it frequently. Who ever said you have to trust you kids probably raised a derelict. If they keep buying crap you don't approve of, take their money away. Don't even give them a reason if you don't want to. "Because I said so" is a great reason.

    Second, the reason our schools stink is that they are worried about dress codes instead of math, science, english, history, and art. Quick and Simple, if the dress code is violated the kid cannot be in school.

    Last, we are creating a society of children who are lazy, spoiled, and weak. There is a parent out there somewhere (probably a lot of them) who need to tell there kid to put down the remote (or game controller) and go exercise (i.e. play), then let them get hit in the face by a dodgeball, when they come home crying that a bigger kid picked on them, teach him/her how to throw a mean left hook. And the next time they leave the house, tell them "Honey, I love you very much, but you will not wear that out of the house." If they start an argument or throw a temper tantrum, wait until it is over, give them a hug, and tell them they still can't wear it out of the house. You don't need to be their friend and no one said being a parent was easy, but no one told you you to have kids either. Every parent out there made a choice, now it's time to follow through.

    Befor I end my rant, I want to thank my parents for not being my friend when I was a teenager.

    • Posted By: tiredofidiots @ 09/05/2008 2:41:02 PM

      wakeupanddieright - Finally, someone with a brain. If only more people realized the truth of this "rant", our society would be a much better place!!

      My mother (dad left when I was 3), was friendly TOWARDS us kids, not friends WITH us. There is a difference. And I agree, I hated my mom when I was younger, but thank God that she was "mean" as well. And I agree even more with the lazy, spoiled and weak.

      Way to go wakeupanddieright!!! If only the policed procreation like they do other things.

    • Posted By: whathappen2commonsense @ 09/05/2008 2:32:23 PM

      Some where along the line parents stopped being parents and started to be friends to their children that is one of the biggest problems. From that stems all other issues and cause for concern. Children here are falling behind every other nation as far as education goes, but one thing they have that most other children dont is the latest gear.

  • Posted By: urohw @ 09/05/2008 2:33:04 PM

    Wow, got to appreciate the First Amendment. Does anyone remember that? Freedom of Speech I believe. A public school being exclusionary. Go Figure.

  • Posted By: michelleq67 @ 09/05/2008 2:31:42 PM

    There is nothing wrong with logos and/or having the words "cheer", "dance" and/or you college name, etc. on the clothing that you wear. This is just another way to try and control our country with the Big Brother theory.
    I do not apperciate other people telling me how my 5 children should dress.

  • Posted By: slayerdog @ 09/05/2008 2:28:42 PM

    If the students are fans of SlipKnot then they will most definitely sport the jumpsuits, just add a big bar code on the back and waaaalaaaaa.......SlipKnot Jumpsuits

  • Posted By: TeresaP @ 09/05/2008 2:28:16 PM

    I would rather see kids and young adults wearing their pants above their butts instead of halfway down or even worse, below it around their thighs! Fix that then worry about what's on their butts! And If Juicy is sueing VS, for it's logoing, then I'll no longer by Liz Claiborne!

  • Posted By: slayerdog @ 09/05/2008 2:26:51 PM

    If the students are fans of SlipKnot then they will most definitely sport the jumpsuits, just add a big bar code on the back and waaaalaaaaa.......SlipKnot Jumpsuits

  • Posted By: TeresaP @ 09/05/2008 2:25:06 PM

    I could deal with the lettering on the butt gladly if they would start making kids, boys & girls, even young adults start wearing their waste bands above their butt instead of halfway down and even worse below around their thighs. I think that is even more offensive than the lettering. Let's put pants up where they should be and then start worrying about what's on them. And if Juicy is sueing V.S. then I'll no shop Liz Claiborne!

  • Posted By: whathappen2commonsense @ 09/05/2008 2:24:47 PM

    There is a real simple fix to what children wear to school, but most people will fight the idea. Children will wear what they want and if you stop them at the door they may just sneak it out the house and change in the school bathroom or they may just go to a friends house whose parents have relaxed rules and wear their friend's clothing. So that no child wears to school anything offensive, sexist, gang related colors, racist, wierd, or anything else someone will chose to complain about let them wear uniforms. Thats the simple fix, forget the prison jump suits cover up, forget sending them back home, forget having some mother clutching her chest because some grade school girl has Tim's Ass across the back of her pants. School uniforms would quiet the noise of most of the adults, those that choose to complain will no matter what. The question is are we here to educate the children or show them off?

  • Posted By: RickyBobby6 @ 09/05/2008 2:24:13 PM

    I find it ironic that kids want to thumb their nose at the system by buying designer clothes.

    Boys cannot wait for the newest video game and girls cannot wait for the newest designer fashion trend.

    It sort of makes you wonder how anybody had any fun on their own before marketing came along and told everybody what was supposed to be fun.

    I knew that the pop culture in America was in trouble when drive in movies started to disappear. Now those were fun and did not cost much either. A teen did not need overpriced designer gear and a slew of electronics to have fun back then. A Frisbee and perhaps a couple of bucks worth of firecrackers was a high old time at the drive in. And as an extra added bonus you got to see Clint Eastwood shoot about thirty bad guys if you paid any attention to the movie.

    Times change and no cost fun or low cost fun have become obsolete. If you handed a teen a Frisbee today he or she would ask for the launching device and the catching device and the remote control that should come with it.

  • Posted By: tylerrose @ 09/05/2008 2:23:32 PM

    If PARENTS would DO THEIR JOBS we wouldn't have these types of issues. Too often parents leave the raising of their children to the schools. It's time for parents to start accepting responsibility for their children and to actually raise them and not leave it to others!!!!!

  • Posted By: audacitymedia@yahoo.com @ 09/05/2008 12:33:49 PM

    This is funny. I was leading a trail crew in Washington recently and a couple of teen-age girls came down the trail (I'm 43). One had something emblazoned on her pants. Apparently I gazed a bit long at it because my assistant punched me in the arm and said "you dirty old man; she's more than half your age!" In my defense I replied, "Dude, if she didn't want me looking at her a** she wouldn't use it as a billboard."

    I may be older now but I'm not dead.

    • Posted By: InquireWithin @ 09/05/2008 1:28:10 PM

      Not that funny, audacitymedia--if she was a teen she was YOUNGER than half your age, and no matter what she might have wanted (and it might not have been directed at you, btw) YOU are the adult.

      It's ok for you to not be dead, but try to be responsible.

      • Posted By: tiredofidiots @ 09/05/2008 2:22:23 PM

        InquireWithin - audacitymedia is ABSOLUTELY correct!!! If these little tarts want to have writing on their butts, that is just like advertising. If you don't want people (regardless of age, sex or nationality) looking at your a**, DON'T HAVE WRITING ON IT!!!

        It isn't a matter of audacity having responsibility so much as the wearers having the RESPECT for themselves not to wear those items out of the house.

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