<p>Did the school district administrators go too far by banning skinny pants?</p>
<p>[Odds</a> of wearing skinny pants in Mesquite ISD: slim to none](<a href=“http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/111909dnmetskinnypants.2ce11307c.html?nTar=OPUR]Odds”>http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/111909dnmetskinnypants.2ce11307c.html?nTar=OPUR)</p>
<p>(Check the link “see Seth’s pants” on the right)</p>
<p>My daughter just bought those pants! She’s 24 though and not going to school. Around here they’re considered very cool.</p>
<p>My answer to your question: “good luck with that!” I remember when we all were in an uproar over “nothing comes between me and my Calvins.”</p>
<p>What are they going to do with Harem pants?
[Ridicule</a> Keeps Fans of Harem Pants From Getting Too Big for Their Britches - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125806880019446147.html]Ridicule”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125806880019446147.html)</p>
<p>OMG, those harem pants are horrible. At least when MC Hammer wore them, it looked like were offering room for ample “package” mobility while dancing. The ones in those pictures just look like saggy diapers.</p>
<p>I’m going to pick my future nursing home carefully, I hope they don’t ban those when I get older.</p>
<p>I think harem pant are hideous, but no doubt I’ll get used to them if they really become fashionable. I don’t see that they do any harm. As for skinny pants? Goodness! They didn’t seem particularly skinny to me. I think half our high school would be suspended. I’m glad our school is not particularly fussy about the dress code.</p>
<p>Seth’s pants seem like normal pants to me. They’re not even very skinny or low cut. But who cares. Wow. How can adults be so stupid???</p>
<p>Just saw the video and I am perplexed. What is the fuss here?</p>
<p>Their dress code is similar our kid’s school dress code, except our school doesn’t ban skinny pants as long as they are not jeans. I have no issue with dress code because it means girls are not wearing halter tops and guys’ pants are not half way down to their knees. The problem with administrating dress code is fashion is always changing. Our school had issues with capris, mini skirt, black jeans…But kids are putting up with it rather than risk having to wear an uniform.</p>
<p>Reading the article, their entire dress code sounds ridiculous and comical (unless you’re one of the unfortunates subjected to it). No jeans. No striped shirts. No hair longer than ear-length for boys. It irritates me that public schools are allowed to do this. The people who make these rules need to get a life. </p>
<p>If these kids are so “distracted” by jeans, what are they going to do when they get to college and are expected to function while the people around them wear a range of styles? Their heads will explode!</p>
<p>I’m sure the district will claim that they are just preparing kids for real life, as advocates of strict school dress codes usually do, but the majority of the people at my workplace are wearing things that would not conform to this nonsensical mess of a dress code.</p>
<p>Our daughters probably have just as many pair of jeans as other teenagers, probably more, but they wear them outside of school. They also have some strapless shirts that they wear on weekends. It is no different than we wear suits when we go to work and casual clothes when we are home.</p>
<p>I think skinny pants are ugly, but I don’t understand why they’d be banned. After all, they cover the skin, and all they reveal is what your legs are shaped like. What a weird thing to get worked up about.</p>
<p>I am completely perplexed about what would be controversial about those pants. They look like a normal pair of pants to me, albeit cut on the slim side. My daughter had to buy a pair of pants that looked just like that as part of her uniform for her hospital volunteer work. This is not even remotedly anything that is “disruptive.” This school district deserves a big fat eyeroll for making a fuss over this.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have even considered “Seth’s pants” as “skinny pants”. (And I don’t particularly care for guys wearing skinny pants.)</p>
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<p>I completely agree.</p>
<p>I also would never have described those hideous droopy drawers as “harem pants.” Harem pants are what Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie wore. They are gathered at the ankle, not drooping like a loaded diaper between the thighs!</p>
<p>^what would you call them?</p>
<p>They don’t even look like skinny pants. I did note in the video that someone said when he sat down it was “disruptive.” They do look kind of low-rise, so maybe that constituted the “crack” in the dress code.</p>
<p>Just looked at the “harem pants.” I’ve never see any fashion so hideous.</p>
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Yep, we’d be in trouble. S2 wears jeans every day. His hair is past his shoulders. He wears a striped button up shirt (which I think looks sharper than the t-shirts he usually wears) from time to time. </p>
<p>The only time I’ve been irritated with my kid was when for an award ceremony they were told not to wear “blue jeans”, my kid naturally took that as an order to wear his black ones. He did wear a shirt with a tie with them…</p>