New dress code outlaws dresses and skirts in Texas school district

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https://www.cbs7.com/2022/06/23/new-dress-code-outlaws-dresses-skirts-texas-school-district/

New dress code outlaws dresses and skirts in Texas school district

By WFAA staff
Published: Jun. 23, 2022 at 5:36 AM EDT|Updated: 10 hours ago

FORNEY, Texas (WFAA) - Clothing with hoods, dresses, skirts and skorts now all banned for students in fifth grade and higher at a Texas school district.

It’s part of a new dress code that officials say will help improve the learning environment, and it has one soon-to-be sophomore fighting back.

In a few weeks Brooklynn Hollaman will dig through her closet, looking for clothes to wear on her first day of 10th grade.

“We were allowed to wear dresses and skirts and skorts and everything like that,” she said.

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Thanks to MIRT and Demovictory9

[jimfields33]

1. So dumb. Educators sometimes make the wrong decisions.

[Probatim]

19. Educators didn't do this. It was the ultra-puritans in the TX legislature that did this.

[CentralMass]

2. America's friggen Taliban.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Can't wear a dress? Huh? Nt

[Rebl2]

28. Yes and

now they will wear really tight jeans and crop tops. Sounds good to me!

[tanyev]

4. That is so weird.

Several decades ago, girls were required to wear a dress or a skirt to school and would have been sent home if they wore pants.

[Demovictory9]

10. Exactly..i had to wear a dress until age 12

[yellowdogintexas]

30. Yep i remember how jealous I was when I found out my sister

(5 years younger) was wearing jeans to school. We had to wear skirts; most of us wore hose or tights (occasionally knee sox)

I graduated in 1966 and she finished in 1971.

When I was in elementary school, we wore dresses on even the coldest days. We were allowed to wear long pants only if they were under our skirts.

My freshman year of college, the women had won the right to wear jeans in the cafeteria on weekends. The men had to wear ties to Sunday dinner so we could wear our jeans.

[Midnight Writer]

5. We could ONLY wear dresses or skirts in school (60s). Slacks, etc., were prohibited.

[ChazInAz]

26. And they had to cover the knees.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Be sure to check out the catering business in Forney TX.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. Boys either

No kilts allowed!

[Demovictory9]

11. Pervert go back to freepervile

[vercetti2021]

18. Incel in the wild

For real though. What the fuck

[Demovictory9]

22. Definitely

[Demovictory9]

12. Alerted

[sl8]

14. Thank you. I did, too. nt

[MineralMan]

13. Ugh!

[Demovictory9]

16. i know!!! Pedo stuff

[MineralMan]

17. Glad to see it's gone.

[delisen]

9. Is this fear of skirts for all? nt

[Tetrachloride]

15. Wiki list of female clothing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_clothing

doesn’t include sunglasses, shoes

[LeftInTX]

20. Stupid

[LogicFirst]

21. Maybe we'll see an increase in the sale of booty shorts.

[3catwoman3]

23. I grew up in Rochester NY, and attended high...

...school in the late 1960s. No pants allowed for girls. No one drove to school in those days, and waiting for the bus in deep winter with the harsh winds blowing up your skirt/dress, was no fun. I would have been delighted to have pants required.

That said, I do certainly see the misogynistic hypocrisy here.

When my late mother was a school nurse in a junior high way back in the late 60s, the vice principle used to grumble about how tight some of the trouble maker boys wore their pants. (A tailor would NOT have had to ask, "Which side do you dress to, sir?) He once commented to my mom, with reference to high temperatures decreasing sperm counts, "Well, maybe they won't be able to reproduce." She got a good chuckle out of that.

[Rhiannon12866]

31. Same here - growing up in New York and even in high school in Massachusetts in the '70s

And the winters were really cold there, too! Not to mention, my high school had a huge campus and we had to change classes from building to building in the winter in deep snow!

[RicROC]

24. so Tx wants girls to dress as boys?

Seems to me that smacks of grooming girls to become trans boys.

[Ford_Prefect]

25. The Texas Taliban theocrats are declaring the new uniform for citizens to be seen wearing.

They will next declare the approved length and styles of haircuts, shoe styles and personal book bags.

I find it rather ironic just how prescient Devo was.

[Rebl2]

27. When I

was in jr. high in the 70’s we finally were allowed to wear pants or jeans and were thrilled!!! O more hosiery and dresses. Have rarely worn a dress since then. Wow do I feel old.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

29. WHAT is in the drinking water down there ?

[Torchlight]

32. A lot of creepy people seem really invested

in the clothing of young students.

I'm starting to think the criticism I often hear and read about the wardrobe's of others may be nothing more than a cover-story to justify their own leering.