Throw me some...belts?

[GalvestonDuck]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _too_low_2

So, a Louisiana legislator wants to ban low-slung pants because he's tired of seeing boxers and g-strings. What about everything else that gets shown during Mardi Gras?

[Lindaloo]

I back that legislation and think other states should follow suit. I get tired of seeing kids with their underwear showing and their pants down to their knees. Some kids do this to hide drugs and weapons.

[j]

ghetto rap look..It disgusts me. They might as well just take it out and swing it around

[Guest]

I agree. It amazed me back in high school how those low-slung pants would stay on these "people" (?) while walking down the hall or up the stairs. (Yeah, I deserve an elevator key because my pants might fall down if I use the stairs. )

[j]

the look says: I'm lazy, repulsive, I look like **** and don't care about anything and I hope it disgusts you.

I guess they succeed.

[TexasStooge]

We have students at school who are like that. One kid in my math class wears his sweat pants inside out & saggin'. That proves what an idiot he must be.

[vbhoutex]

Boy am I gonna RUFFLE some feathers here!!!


I may not like the look-IT DISGUSTS ME TOO!!!!

BUT THE PROOF IS IN THE ACTIONS NOT THE LOOK!!!! If they look like S**t, but keep the grades up and act like decent people I will take them any day over some of the trash I have dealt with that was dressed to the nines, drove fancy cars and all day long with the corrupt administrators. And no this is not sour grapes(even though their was some)IT IS REALITY NOW AS IT WAS THEN!!

[TexasStooge]

There are some people that sag so low that their belt's around their knees.

[Lindaloo]

Good point David. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish between the two.

[timNms]

I agree with David...I'd have taken the saggy pants kids over the ritzy smart-mouthed ones any day!

I found a solution to the problem. I had a spoken rule in my classroom that you'd better have your pants pulled up where they belong or the teacher will make you wear a haystring for a belt LOL (I never had to give a kid a haystring to use for a belt. I got that idea from a teacher that I worked with before getting my degree in elem. ed. It worked for her and I borrowed the idea)
Of course, this was elem. kids, so they were a bit easier to handle than the high school kids.

My biggest gripe with the education system concerning dress code is the fact that you have so many lily livered administrators who, when a teacher sends a kid to the office for violating the dress code, wimps out and does nothing to correct the situation because he/she is "afraid" of the parents.

[Josephine96]

I can't understand why kids dress this way either. Makes them look like hoodlums sometimes..

[Guest]

I agree with David...I'd have taken the saggy pants kids over the ritzy smart-mouthed ones any day!

You brought that up, now I am on the fence. I can't stand what some of these baggy clothed people do (drugs, get violent, etc), but the ritzy, glitzy ones drive me up Mt. Everest as well. It is like you can't be good enough for them to treat you the way you are. So I guess I go both ways.

[Josephine96]

I know a girl like that. I see her just about every day on the bus to school..

She's on her way to work every day. I always try to say hello or even start a coversation but she always gives me dirty looks and says nothing..

It's like she thinks she's special or thinks she's God's gift to the working world or something..

[GalvestonDuck]

Don't forget, it's not just the baggy, sagging pants:



but also those darned hip-huggers:

[Josephine96]

LOL True Duck

[vbhoutex]

Don't get me wrong about the look. I would be the first one to run up and pull those pants down so I could watch them trip and fall on their face if I thought it would do any good!!!! Might as well just wear the underwear most of the time! And you will find if you are ever with me and I see someone trip on their own trousers I will be the one laughing the loudest and pointing too!! But I also stand by my point above.

[Amanzi]

I went to the library the other day and was a bit horrified. A mommy was there with her little boy, who could not have been older than 2. This mamma was parading around with a skirt on and this marvelous red thong sticking out the back, why she bothered to wear the skirt is a mystery I have yet to solve.. oh well, each to his own.

[deb_in_nc]

One day I hope to see one of them running from something. Can you see it? Godzilla stomping down the street and all these baggy pants being held up so they run for their lives. I only hope I have a camcorder with me.

[Rainband]

I hate that look too but we CANNOT start telling people what they can and cannot wear Within reason of course. This is America This is ridiculous. This guy needs to worry about more important issues. Thats why I hate politicians. What a JOKE

[timNms]

I hate that look too but we CANNOT start telling people what they can and cannot wear Within reason of course. This is America This is ridiculous. This guy needs to worry about more important issues. Thats why I hate politicians. What a JOKE

I agree to a certain extent. I think that if you are wearing something that shows your behind, then you need to fix your clothes. I don't get a thrill at all out of seeing some kid's butt and you can rest asured that one of mine is NOT going to dress like that as long as I have something to say about it.

On a serious note, I think that if parents would instill some self-respect in their kids, we wouldn't have so many running around half naked....but then again, we have quite a few parents these days that dress worse than their kids.