school help: Cross-Dressing and Other Forms of Expression in School - Help.com

I’ve experienced my pants falling off before.. generally a woman involved though.

Appropriate dress is an obsession with schools. One reasn I enjoy lecturing rather than teaching is that I don’t have to remind kids to straighten their tie or take of Jewelry. Does wearing a standard uniform really aid concentration? Probably not. But then school is not aboutr that, its about teaching students to obey authority.

While I do think that schools should have dress codes and provocative clothing should not be allowed, I think that the government has no right to assign clothing to particular genders. Where is the line drawn? Is a girl who wears men’s trousers cross dressing? What about a boy who wears a gold chain with a small pendant? It is really a matter of taste, not gender.

It is generally obvious when a student is dressing to be disruptive, and the teachers and school administrators need to be given the right to act in those cases, however, an all-encompassing law is going overboard.

Nonsense is what I think of the proposed law. As other posters have said it’s going to far; a government has no right to impede on a person’s fashion, as long as it’s within reasonable guidelines. If a guy wants to wear makeup, wigs and wear feminine clothing, he should be able to. Just as a woman wearing manly clothes and cutting their hair short should be allowed to.

More importantly, why are they focusing on this issue that is non-important rather than hammering down on schools that are either already teaching creationism or ‘intelligent design’ or pushing for these materials to be part of the school curriculum? That’s much more important, and relevent, and actually matters. Sigh.

i thought cross dressing was already banned based on the fact that boys have one uniform and girls have another uniform. maybe they should just make gender-neutral uniforms.

i think the intentions are probably well-meaning but misguided. they should be addressing bullying in the school, rather than the dress code.