<p>Too dangerous is not the problem. Obesity is not the problem, either. Derelict parents is the concern, but I agree that banning curlers and droopy pants is not a solution.</p>
<p>I don’t care if I have curlers in my hair, pj’s on or whatever. I would tell them to shove their dress code up their boohiney…I will dress what they deem appropriate when they all stop wearing ugly Christmas sweaters.</p>
<p>Obesity is not the problem . Florida ranks 12th least obese state in the US. Florida’s children from the ages 10-17 and high school kids have a obesity rate of 13.4% and 11.5%, respectively. Emerald, please don’t construe this into what it is not. </p>
<p>The board should focus on the kids. They’re coming to school aren’t they? That’s one positive in this situation. If the students’ dress is a problem, then fix that.</p>
<p>Obesity is an epidemic in US and Florida has a rate that is even higher than average.
<a href=“http://www.fcsw.net/documents/Factsheets/ChildhoodObesityinFlorida.pdf”>http://www.fcsw.net/documents/Factsheets/ChildhoodObesityinFlorida.pdf</a>
Sorry if the answer is too obvious for you.</p>
<p>No sure what childhood obesity has to do with parental dress code. </p>
<p>Oh good grief - one of the more ridiculous things I have ever heard. I had to drive my kid to his prep school (15 miles away) before 7am every day for 3 years (until he got his license and could drive himself) and I went in my jammies. In public middle school on band days had to drive him, too because he wasn’t allowed on bus with a trombone. Again, went in my jams. </p>
<p>Yeah, it’s a reach involving walking to school. But the issue is that the parents look like derelicts. Now, maybe that’s because they just woke up and will clean up later. But, maybe not.</p>
<p>Forgive me for getting too caught up in vocabulary, but medically speaking obese is not the equivalent to overweight. 33.1% of children ages 10-17 in Florida are either overweight or obese. Leaving out defining vocabulary while stating statistics is misleading. There is a considerable difference between 33.1% of children in that age range being obese and 33.1% of children in that age range being overweight or obese. Especially, when children ages 10-17 have obesity rating of 13.4%. It’s misleading.</p>
<p>Perhaps these trends, emerald, will help.
<a href=“http://www.fasinfat.org/states/fl/”>http://www.fasinfat.org/states/fl/</a></p>
<p>Obesity is not the problem in this situation with parents coming to school in curlers and sagging pants. </p>
<p>I’m fortunate I tended to wear shoes when I drove D to school because she’d often forget to wear footwear and it IS required at her school, so she’d wear my too large shoes to school and I’d go back home. 
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<p>So far, haven’t heard that our local school board has opted to tackle this as an issue. I rarely see anyone in curlers any more and it’s tough to know when folks are wearing PJs or following some fashion or another than I’m not familiar with these days. Wish school boards would pay more attention to what was going on IN the classrooms than what drivers are wearing.</p>
<p>Yep, grade 9…all parents report to see if you look like a derelict. I, proper parent, vow to never show up looking like anything but a stepford wife. Yep, that’s happening.</p>
<p>The only time I ever regretted wear my Winnie the Pooh pajamas to drop off my kids was the day that my car broke down and I had to wait outside their school for a tow truck. I’m not sure who was more mortified – me or the kids. But the way I see it, I worked very hard to end up with a job where I can frequently work from home while wearing said Winnie the Pooh pajamas and I don’t intend to give up that privilege just because it upsets some administrator.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.browardschools.com/School-Board/District-5”>http://www.browardschools.com/School-Board/District-5</a></p>
<p>After reading her background I get it. Don’t agree with it but I get it.</p>
<p>I would be more inclined to have her suggest dress codes for attending school events IF these parents were dressing inappropriately for these events. </p>
<p>Dropping kids off to high school in my book means those same kids would be late or absent if they were left up to their own devices. Parents get points for getting them to school on time. Parents often can’t do much more but they sure can drop the kid at the door and leave no excuse for getting there.</p>
<p>Looks like some board members take their cues from scenes like this:</p>
<p><a href=“Animal House (3/10) Movie CLIP - Only We Can Do That to Our Pledges (1978) HD - YouTube”>Animal House (3/10) Movie CLIP - Only We Can Do That to Our Pledges (1978) HD - YouTube;
<p>Where are people getting this “everyone lives within a mile of the school” thing? I used to live in Florida, at my middle school (because of some desegregation program) there were kids who came from very far away, some more than 10 miles. </p>
<p>Momzie–Winnie the Pooh is perfectly acceptable.
More than once my mom dropped me off at school in her robe and jammies–40 plus years ago. Thank goodness the school board had more important things to do than worry about stupid stuff.</p>
<p>Yes, my daughter would have to walk 3 plus miles if I didn’t drop her off in all my sloppy glory.</p>
<p>Yea, the whole walking to school thing is very dependent on your geographical location. For one thing, for many months of the year, our kids have to be at school for activities earlier than classes begin, which can mean arriving at school when it’s still dark outside. You can’t count on everyone shoveling their sidewalks after a snowfall, so you may be asking a kid to walk over a mile to school, in the dark, possibly in the streets where people haven’t shoveled their sidewalks. I say over a mile to school, because in our high school district, kids don’t have a bus option unless they live 1 1/2 miles from school (we live 1.2 miles, so no bus). </p>
<p>So yea, I drove them everyday (until they got their licenses). And somedays it was often in my PJs with a coat thrown over the top. </p>
<p>My kids went to different high schools clear across town from each other and both were too far to walk. I was occasionally a mess and not planning to exit the car. However, this is about something else entirely and most posters are just completely missing the point. I agree with sax. </p>
<p>It takes 15-20 min to walk a mile. In the dark at 6:30 am, alone, under pouring rain… It takes 5 min to drive it, so it saves the kid 10-15 precious minutes of sleep in the morning. If HS schools were not starting at such ridiculously early times, many more kids would probably walk to school. Even when we lived a mile away from school, I often drove kiddo and her neighbor buddies to school in the morning, but she made the return trip just fine on her own, sometimes, with a bassoon in tow.</p>
<p>The principal has too much free time…</p>
<p>I don’t understand why it is so difficult for parents to put on something other than pajamas and a robe to take their kids to school. Personally, I would not be caught dead outside the house dressed like that. It takes about 3 minutes max, to pull on jeans and a t-shirt and pull a brush through one’s hair. It sets an example for your children when you do stuff like that, but I suppose people who do it won’t care when their kids reach driving age and do the same thing.</p>