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  • Posted By: cnight07 @ 09/05/2008 2:13:06 PM

    Here the problem. Kids are not being monitored by parents enough and other adult figures. Also the parents them selves are dressng like this as well!? Who wants to see a 50 something mom in short shorts and tank top? Well you see it on T.V. all the time with reality TV. Parents are not teaching the kids right from wrong and have no control over what they watch so there preception messed up about adulthood. Generation Y is growing up spoiled rotten and the parents are to blame! We wher able to wear what ever we wanted 20 years ago and we never heard about the non-sence happening in the news today!

    • Posted By: angelosdaughter @ 09/05/2008 2:18:13 PM

      You are so right, cnight07, : parents need to get some control over their own behaviour before they can teach it to their children. I have often wondered how parents behaving inappropriately can teach their children how to behave at all. "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work.

  • Posted By: lsmith1950 @ 09/05/2008 1:12:55 PM

    Get it right.........It's Hickory City Schools in Catawba County NORTH CAROLINA

    • Posted By: crazybird @ 09/05/2008 2:16:26 PM

      I caught that too. Has Catawba County Schools adopted the same dress code as well?

  • Posted By: crazybird @ 09/05/2008 2:14:38 PM

    I believe Catawba County is located in North Carolin, not South Carolina

  • Posted By: robynmaxine @ 09/05/2008 12:59:29 PM

    audacitymedia, I totally agree. Just the thought that parents, in good conscience will let their daughters out of the house with "Juicy" advertised on their rear ends absolutely blows my mind. Then, the same parents wonder why their daughter is running around with boys at "such a young age" and why there are so many teen pregnancies. I am not saying (in any way, shape or form) that this has something to do with the pants. What I'm saying is, allowing that sort of thing shows a lack of parenting and illustrates one of the ways that these girls end up with little to no self respect and end up in said sutations. I applaud the schools that are implementing dress codes. However, I also think that telling someone how long or short their hair can be is over the top and unnecessary. That just causes rebellion. My dad, the punk rocker from the 70's, could tell you all about that.

  • Posted By: alpenchick @ 09/05/2008 11:58:47 AM

    Funny how Juicy seems to think it invented the idea. I remember wearing what we called "butt-sweats" in college in 1987 - sweatpants that had our sorority letters on the butt. It was cute, but we were 20 years old, not in 5th or 6th grade with pants saying Joe's Ass, or whatever. Scary times today, kids!

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