Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools Message-ID: <194@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 07:48:54 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.194 Posted: Fri Sep 13 07:48:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 05:59:21 EDT References: <2149T3B@psuvm> <11212@rochester.UUCP> <974@uscvax.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.kids:2071 net.legal:2375 net.politics:11111 > As for your other concerns. This vice principal was constantly enforcing the > dress code (walked around with a tape measure to measure girls skirt lengths, > tugged on boys shirts to make sure they were tucked in appropriately and not > "just rolled up", etc.). Schools should concentrate on developing a students > mental discipline and forget about petty garbage like hair length or dress > code. My wife & I were talking about this recently. I, of course, went to a school with an official uniform (this was in Australia). One of her schools had this as their dress code: "Shoes must be worn". That included sandals & thongs. Anyone know about dress codes in schools in the San Francisco Bay area? That's where we'll probably be living when we have kids in school. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com