<p>"A Florida high school wants to set a dress code for parents.</p>
<p>Broward County School Board member Dr. Rosalind Osgood brought up the idea during a meeting after noticing parents dropping their kids off at Boyd Anderson High School while wearing saggy pants that exposes their underwear and curlers in their hair." …</p>
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<p>Who wears curlers in their hair anymore??</p>
<p>Where I live in the Caribbean, a large number of locals wear curlers in their hair and do so while shopping and running errands; it is very normal here - but of course it’s not Florida.</p>
<p>If the schools were in their neighborhoods, wouldn’t students then be able to walk to school?
Perhaps the school board should work on increased access to neighborhood schools.</p>
<p>I really feel like the board probably has bigger fish to fry. The fact that parents are dropping kids off at all is a major achievement in some districts. </p>
<p>EK, a boy was shot and killed outside of this school a few years ago. Perhaps the parents have good reason for not wanting their kids to walk to school, even if it was within walking distance. Heck, given everything coming out of Florida, I’m not sure I would want to walk anywhere there… </p>
<p>That happens anywhere unfortunately. At my younger daughters school, it happens every year.</p>
<p>If this is a high school, I assume the parents are not getting out of their cars to walk the kiddies to the entrance door. And I really can’t see many women walking several blocks in rollers to walk their kids to schools so why does the school board care what the parents are wearing if they are in vehicles? </p>
<p>IMO - the fact that the women even bother with curlers is a positive and sagging pants are just downright silly. </p>
<p>The school board is trying to teach self-respect to the kids and unfortunately there role models at home are not helpful. That being said, morning drop-off around here does include parents in pajamas who later go home and get properly dressed. </p>
<p>Wish this school board would focus on academic achievement for the kids rather than some silly non-essential regarding people who are not students at the school. It makes the school board look very silly. </p>
<p>Well, <em>I</em> would violate her dress code since I drop D off at her school in my sweats and without my hair properly fixed. She goes to another district and I don’t have to be to work for another 2 hours. And parents in all kinds of neighborhoods drive their kids to school-some districts have crappy bus service-in my hometown you needed to live more than a mile away to even get a school bus, and not many elementary kids made that walk. Even in nicer neighborhoods parents drove their kids to school. And my D and her African American aunties wear curlers all the time. It’s better for your hair than a flat iron. I agree with bookreader-it’s a complete non-issue. This lady is in search of a problem.</p>
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<p>Crime is much lower now than a generation ago, so perhaps parents’ experiences with crime a generation ago may have shaped their behavior to the point that they would not let their kids walk even half a mile to school in a low crime neighborhood with no busy streets to cross.</p>
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Don’t be ridiculous. That could happen anywhere. People still walk around in Florida without being shot, raped, or eaten. </p>
<p>In regards to the dress code, I feel this member’s concerns were acted on incorrectly. Yes, the parents should dress more appropriately, but it’s their choice to come like that. It is not the school’s place to place a dress code on the parents. I’m more for the school mentioning at the parents’ meeting on suggested dress for their chldren and the problems the school has had with how they’ve come dressed for school. The school should work on instilling a standard of dress when it comes to school in the students. Yes, the parents are role models, but the kid has a brain, too.</p>
<p>My sister has to get five kids up and dressed in the morning including a pre schooler. If she manages to do that and get them to school on time, and all the appropriate body parts are covered, I sure don’t care.</p>
<p>That would be a shame. IMO if they haven’t learned life skills like knowing when to cross the street by the time they are in grade school, they certainly should know how to by the time they go to high school.
Or do they they think when they turn 18 they will have automatically learned how to function as a responsible adult?
No wonder we have such a obesity problem if kids cant even walk a mile or two to school.</p>
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You left me behind, emerald. I can’t jump as far as you! :)) </p>
<p>When the article mentioned “dropping their kids off”, I interpreted it as the parent could’ve driven or walked with the child to school. Whatever the transportation, the parent was with the child.</p>
<p>This is critically important and will dramatically improve test scores within the school district, how dare anyone question this proposal? Without this every student will likely end up a homeless alcoholic, is that what you want?</p>
<p>/Sarcasm</p>
<p>Its all connected.
We dont want fracking and we want cleaner air, so why cant we stop using our cars to drive what would take us 15 minutes to walk?
If you care about your kids, you want them to be healthy.
Regular exercise is part of that, wouldnt you agree?
One in four Florida adults is obese.
33.1% of children 10-17 in Florida are obese.</p>
<p>*When the article mentioned “dropping their kids off”, I interpreted it as the parent could’ve driven or walked with the child to school. Whatever the transportation, the parent was with the child.
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Why would parents be walking their high school kids to school?
Dont they have to be at work?</p>
<p>Well, that would solve the problem of disheveled parents. Just shove the little tykes out the door in the morning and be done with it. lol.</p>
<p>If it is too dangerous for a 15 yr old to walk a mile to school, then they have much bigger problems than their mothers wearing curlers outside the house.</p>
<p><em>looks back at title of thread</em>
<em>looks back at article</em>
Looks like I overlooked some pertinent information! 
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<p>If their school is a mile away, they should be walking.</p>
<p>Now, emerald, since you provided the statistics. Would you care to share the trends in the past seven years regarding obesity in Florida? Maybe even how Florida measures up in obesity among other states?</p>