About 170 Duncanville High students sent home over dress code - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Kuro.;44839066]Public schools recieve federal funding and are regulated by the government, effectively making them state-owned. The quality of education at said schools is abysmal even in the better schools, and declines further each passing year, leading to progressively dumber generations of children completely unfit to demonstrate critical thinking or independent thought. Dumb kids grow into dumb citizens. Dumb citizens = complacent citizens who won't even bat an eyelash at rich electronic old men running the human race into the ground as long as their smartphones and endless internets are being streamed 24/7 into their faces. Hmmm. I might be onto something here.[/QUOTE] I myself and plenty of people who went to my school ended up doing extremely well and are smart people. While I know plenty of retards in my old school there were just as many at the private school nearby. It honestly comes down to the student. If they want to learn they will, if not then they'll be dumb.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44834612]School dress codes/uniforms are the dumbest thing. Who gives a shit what you wear, you're there to learn, not dress for success or what the fuck ever. They always use the excuse "This is what you gotta do when you're older, we're preparing you!!" Preparing us to be mindless zombies who do whatever the authority says, no questions asked.[/QUOTE] I don't know how many people in this thread have even graduated from high school but yes, this is what you gotta do when you're older. Try working for a Fortune 500 company or going to court in a T-shirt and shorts and see how it works out. In the real world any professional or formal environment has expectations for dress. You're there to learn, not show off your designer clothes, bully the poor kids, identify yourself as a gang member, or get distracted by the girl two seats over with the low-cut top. I never went to a school with mandatory uniforms but I can at least recognize the arguments for them. Edgy nonsense about preparing us to be mindless zombies and follow authority (think you forgot a 'corporate' and maybe 'sheeple' in there) is just amusing in a retarded sort of way.

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;44834056]I've heard of being sent home for not bringing or wearing your ID (students over here are treated very much like cattle), but wearing a sweatshirt was against their dress code? Just save themselves the trouble and enact a standard school uniform.[/QUOTE] My school was cool. We had a dress code but they didn't enforce it and nobody followed it. Girls wore whatever shorts they wanted, guys wore t-shirts with whatever they wanted on them. Nobody cared

[QUOTE=J!NX;44848193]I'd turn that into a shirt, make about 200 and give it away in mass lets see how they like that [editline]19th May 2014[/editline] the way this guy talks and moves is somehow so crazy interesting :v: he's just giving out constant flawless zingers like nothing[/QUOTE] looks like a future "jay", now we need a silent bob.

[QUOTE=Silence I Kill You;44844782]Awww, that's cute. You think you know what you're talking about. I was in school during an implementation of a strict dress code. Yes, teasing and bullying was a large problem for poorer kids who couldn't afford the best clothes. And once the dress code was implemented, that went away. Just because you may not see the problems doesn't mean they don't exist.[/QUOTE] Well, I mean, I went to school too you know. I'm sorry you live somewhere where those actually are problems - I like to think that the bullying of poorer kids is just a symptom of the problem, so the strict dress code might have removed the symptom but I'd imagine the underlying problems are still there. I live in a country where dress codes on any school would be laughed at: we have no problems at all with anything related to how students dress. I don't know why you do. But I know it's possible to have a bullying-free environment without strict dress codes.

[QUOTE=Griffster26;44834234][video=youtube;-eE_flveygw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eE_flveygw[/video][/QUOTE] 35 seconds of pulling out guns. Why the hell are video games always cutting down on inventory space when some kid with clothes from 10 years ago can pack 10 times more than a general video game character?!

[QUOTE=J!NX;44848193] the way this guy talks and moves is somehow so crazy interesting :v: he's just giving out constant flawless zingers like nothing[/QUOTE] The best part is how he only cursed once, which was, I assume, to quote the teacher. Assuming that cursing is against school policy (I went to check the policies on the district website, which is oddly enough a broken link), he made his entire statement still following school rules. That's pretty badass.