TN saggy pants law signed by Gov. Haslam

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38. Tennessee alreaady has a quite effective school to prison pipeline.

I know more kids who ended up dropping out due to continual run-ins with administrators or legal issues in school than I can count. I went to five different high schools, and nearly every one had a dress code which prohibited baggy pants, so a law (complete with a $150 fine and 250 hours of community service) is unnecessary and excessive. This will put a huge additional burden on families that are already poor and have minimal access to decent social services. I deeply fear that this will result in even more students in Tennessee dropping out or giving up in the face of a draconian and adversarial "learning" environment.

Zero-tolerance "law and order" solutions are not the only ways to deal with social problems...in fact I consider them the least effective ones.