Since I can remember there was a trend in which boys sagged their pants to where someone can see their boxers. I didn’t think it was appropriate as I believed how nobody wants to see what they have underneath their pants. It was a major problem during my middle school days, where every day I would at least see one boy with their pants low. From what I can recall, teachers would send boys to the office to find a belt to hoist up their pants. If the boys didn’t cooperate they would be sent home. After what seemed to be hopeless, if the teacher would catch a student with their pants sagged they had to endure a whole lot of yelling or even worse detention for a whole month. This experience helped me recognize that it was not only me who thought it was wrong for boys to keep sagging their pants. In my point of view, this was the trend that shouldn’t continue as it was disrespectful to adults as well as everyone who had to see a boy’s boxers. I wouldn’t often be associated with a person who sagged their pants I just minded my own business and let the teachers solve the problem. I would ignore anyone who had sagged pants and instead imagined how in any second they could trip due to not wearing a belt. My …show more content…
class, they would often get humiliated by the coach who right after gives them a belt to help with the situation. It was his enjoyment to see how bad he could humiliate them in a way they wouldn’t sag their pants again. Girls would often laugh at how stupid they looked when the boys were walking like penguins. I would laugh along with them as it was such a sight to see. For example, when they would have to pick up their pants every second I could imagine how annoying that would be. I am guessing boys continued on this behavior since they thought it was so cool that the girls would swoon over them. Now in high school, there is a more heavily enforced dress code with heavier consequences than in middle
I feel that in today’s society that men are discriminated against for the way they wear their clothes, specifically, their pants. For many guys sagging your pants are a fashion statement, although many people perceive individuals sagging their pants as “bad” individuals. As a kid, I did wear my pants below my butt, but as I grew older, it gradually raised. I am a professional person, but my style and my comfort have my pants lie just below my hips. I wear a belt, but having my pants all the way above my waist makes me extremely uncomfortable. Even for my wedding, I had to have my pants altered, because tuxedo pants only sit high on the waist. I find it hard to have a law against someone’s choice of fashion, and that one could get fined in some states for sagging your pants. It seems a bit discriminatory when some women can go out barley wearing anything and get fined. The sagging pants law should be eradicated because it is discriminatory and a waste of resources, and instead left up to the community to decide weather they would like to provide services to people who sag their pants.
What ever happened to having your pants on your waist? It’s apparently now called a “fashion” to have them below your ass. Though sagging looks hideously ridiculous there is some history behind it I bet many of you do or don't know. For instance According to Greg Mathis, sagging was adopted in the United States prison systems where belts were sometimes prohibited to prevent prisoners from using them as a weapon or committing suicide by hanging themselves but that style was later popularized by hip hop artists such as snoop dogg and others in the 1990’s.
Life is full of distractions and, for high school students, inappropriate clothing has the potential to grab much attention. However, does the matter of clothing warrant strict rules? I agree that, like alcohol, the students’ attire should have rules regarding whether or not the choices in clothing are suitable for a public school setting. I also agree that violators of school rules should receive punishment for their lack of compliance to the school policies. However, there is a fine line. Some schools, like Carroll High School, are taking dress codes too far. One rule in particular hinders the students’ ability to wear pants with holes in them. It makes sense that holes located in certain places might cause a...
Varying Issues Corresponding to the School Dress Code Numerous cases have been presented and highlighted in the media based off of accounts from angered parents and students protesting the school dress code. Multiple reports are taken from females who experience the shorter end of the stick due to increased fashion interests and sexist mindsets of their school staff. Shame suits are humiliating outfits that those who break the rules must wear as a form of punishment, most of the time these consist of extremely unflattering clothes that have written phrases on them indicating that their appearance is due to their violation of the school rules. Punishments indicated a risk to the violators education caused by missed classes. Few in society do approve of the dress code as it controls female students’ modesty, banishes distraction, and preserves the professional atmosphere inside a school.
The issue of sagging pants has always been controversial. Some would argue that sagging is a temporary fashion statement, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Others would say sagging isn’t professional, and won’t get you far. After all, being a black man in the United States is hard enough. We don’t need any additional stereotypes that we are “gang affiliated”, or have no knowledge of “common decency”. As defined the Merriam Webster Dictionary, sagging is an object declining to a lower level. Sagging pants is a widespread controversy in our nation, this issue has led to many campaigns t advocate against young men, especially Black males from wearing their pants at an unnecessarily low level. I am against sagging pants because it isn’t morally right, displays a lack of discipline, and places more burdens on black males within the society.
(Wilder 1) “Educators reported a decrease in violence when dress codes were implemented.” (Wilder 1) Every day so many guns are brought to school. If dress codes were implemented in all schools, that number should go down. This dress code requires students to show a belt line.
Sagging is a popular trend all over the world, it is not a trend that is specific to a location. Sagging is when people, mostly men, sag their pants below their waist exposing their underwear. Some people think that this is an offensive fashion due to the origination and some people considered the clothing style public indecency. Many public officials around the world are trying to outlaw the saggy pants fashion. Even thought some may not paticulary like the fashion, sagging your pants should not be categorized as indecent exposure or considered illegal activity. The Editorial: Wildwood Pants Patrol: Don’t Let Them Down, out of the Philadelphia Inquirer says, “Dress is after all, an important form of personal expression.
In the 2015 article on The Atlantic on The Sexism of School Dress Codes, stating that "Many of these protests have criticized the dress codes as sexist in that they unfairly target girls by body-shaming and blaming them for promoting sexual harassment. Documented cases show female students being chastised by school officials, sent home, or barred from attending events like prom." (Zhou, l.) There are more dress code policies for the females compared to the males. For example, girls should not use backless shirts, no spaghetti tops, no crop-tops that exposes the stomach, no short shorts, no miniskirts, etc. Boys on the other hand have no specific dress code policies. Dress codes may come off as sexist for women and they get insulted by it. An article on the problem with dress code from The Daily Princetonian stating "- women are policed so that they are no longer distracting to men, while men, if policed at all, are never told to change for the benefit of the opposite sex. The most prominent example that comes to mind when thinking of male-specific supplements to dress codes relates to sagging pants, an urban trend where pants are worn low to expose many inches worth of boxers. Efforts to ban these practices have never once mentioned how visible boxers would tortuously distract nearby females. Rather, they focus on visible underwear being inappropriate for a learning or work environment.", based on that article, dress codes seem to be a little too specific on what girls should or should not be allowed to wear, while boys only have a few dress code policies to worry
The clothing of students may seem like a petty point to make concerning the education of the next generation of leaders and the working force. If one has recently driven past a high school one will notice some of the popular trends students are choosing to wear. Many students look like walking advertisements for high end retail brands. Young men wear shirts and pants excessively large which clearly expose their underwear. Some ladies seem to choose the opposite in which less is more. Short shorts or skirts paired with skimpy, tight tops leave a distasteful impression of themselves on others. While not every student may succumb to these styles, the majority of students fall prey to this peer pressure of indecent trends.
Many people think that school uniforms are a thing of the past, however this is only partially true. According to Wendell Anderson research analyst and writer for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, says that in the 1950s and 60s “dress codes prohibited girls from wearing slacks [and] stipulated the length of girls’ skirts. Blu...
Though it can argued that this is all about being appropriate in the learning area. At work you are supposed to look professional and school is hardly any different. If girls wore things such as belly
Schools typically justify their dress codes by maintain that it’s important to keep the classroom free of any distractions, however, that language actually reinforces the idea that women’s bodies are inherently tempting to men and it’s their responsibility to cover themselves up.
Those are my reasons on how our dress code needs to be changed. The specific codes that need changed are shorts, tank tops, and the talk of banning leggings and yoga pants. I know each of these thing could distract boys but so could any other