From: Stephen Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 19:26:06 PST
Well... at first I couldn't understand the justification for it, but
thanks to the full linked story it makes more sense:
"Lowell High Headmaster Bill Samaras said military gear is associated
with some local gangs, and could disrupt students' safety and their
learning environment.
“This has nothing to do with the military. We allow Reserve Officer
Training Corps to wear military gear because they wear it in a
respectful manner. It's the gang relation. If it's controversial or if
it has gang associations, we won't have it,” Samaras said."
Note the bit about them allowing clothing from those actually
associated with the military to be worn. This is just yet another
battle of "school vs. fashion". I doubt any school in the 1950s would
have allowed kids to be dressed in ANYTHING that kids wear today (not
that they wear much!). So it should be kept in context.
I think schools should be more concerned with the "slut factor" more
than the "gang factor" when it comes to girl's clothing, but that's
just because I'm no longer in school. If I were 16 or so I'd be all
for keeping the standards lax ;-)
Steve
> This is of course perfectly normal expected behavior by the Public
> Education
> Commissars in the small communist nation known as the Peoples Republic
> of
> Massachusetts. I suppose she could appeal the discharge to Ted
> Kennedy.
>
> G
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> FATIGUE FLAP: LHS student sent home for wearing camouflage outfit
>
> By HILLARY CHABOT, Sun Staff
> Lowell Sun
>
> LOWELL -- Shilo Lewis just wanted to blend in with the crowd.
>
> She'd seen camouflage clothing in fashion magazines, on the
> streets of
> the city, even in Lowell High School.
>
> But a head-to-toe camouflage ensemble got the high-school junior
> sent
> home from school yesterday.
>
> "They took one look at me and said, 'You have to get picked up,'
> "
> Lewis said about school officials.
>
> Lewis, 16, was wearing a camouflage bandana holding her
> waist-length
> hair in a ponytail, a camouflage jacket over a camouflage T-shirt, and
> a
> pair of camouflage pants.
>
> "I think she looks great," said her mother, Bette Lewis, who
> bought
> her the outfit. "She always looks nice. She always matches everything."
>
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