Hemline kerfuffle
The general reaction was one of relief.
It was somebody else’s problem.
The last thing a school administrator or board member needs is a dress code flap. It’s right up there with the “zero-tolerance” policies so popular at the turn of the past century.
Zero common sense was more accurate.
Dress codes have little educational value in most instances.
“Whatever the case, there has to be some logic and common sense involved,” Brookville Superintendent Tim Hopkins said when asked about dress codes.
The brouhaha started in suburban Cincinnati. That should come as no shock.
The last stupid school trick came from the same area. Then a group — perhaps of one — objected to the performance of a play based on a 1930s British mystery novel with an original title containing a racial insensitive term. Not the play, the book.
The school administration at first canceled the production, then the school board got into the flap. How it ended, I have no idea. I quickly lose interest when adults start acting ignorant.
Any way, the latest kerfuffle involves the Monroe school district dress code, which mandates that skirts must not fall more than 3 inches above the knee. Any higher and it’s too short, young lady. (I would be surprised if the dress code mentions kilts. Or whether boys can wear skirts. These are things that must be addressed else our schools will surely fall into that great pit of moral decay.)
The problem, it seems to some parents, is the cheerleaders’ uniform skirts do not meet the dress code. Thus cannot be worn to school. Thus contravening the cheerleaders’ constitutional right (it’s got to be there somewhere, right?) to wear their uniforms to school on football Fridays. Thus leading to a cataclysmic decline in school spirit, mounting defeats for the football team and the district’s sure and certain fall into the great pit of moral decay.
Holy hemline, Batman.
Parents were upset. They’d paid good money for those uniforms.
Turns out, the cheerleader hemline affair is no big deal across much of the Valley.
Most cheerleaders no longer wear their uniforms to school.
It’s apparently a comfort issue, according several school officials. The uniforms are designed for cheering, not sitting in a classroom for several hours.
“It’s about time,” said the wife when informed of the latest breaking story. A former high school cheerleader, I went to her for the inside dope on cheerleaders and their uniforms.
“You don’t want to know,” was all I could get out of her. But she did wonder if the boys swim team would wear their Speedos to school the day of a meet.
“That might be interesting, and just about as uncomfortable as I remember the cheering uniforms.”
Local school administrators are not losing sleep over the possibility of a cheerleader wearing his or her short skirt to school.
“Most of the time, all you have to do is pull the student aside,” Trotwood-Madison High School Principal Gerald Cox said. “They take care of it.”
What a concept. Kids taking responsibility.
I wonder if their parents know?
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