<p>Yesterday a young woman showed up to be a sub dressed totally inappropriately for work . She really looked more like a hooker than a young teacher . Ironically , she was there for an 8th grade class .She didn’t look that much older than the kids .The principal was out of the building for the day . Do you think she truly didn’t know about the dress code ,or ignored it because she chose to flaunt it ? She had a terrific figure ,but she could have toned it down a lot and still looked great .</p>
<p>I have griped about teacher dress for years. I can see teachers who have to sit on the floor dressing a bit more casually, but IMO, the professionalism of teachers has dive-bombed and at least part of it has to do with how they dress. This is one of my pet peeves.</p>
<p>I have found at work I have to be VERY explicit about what is and isn’t appropriate. Going so far as to say we don’t want to look at your bosoms or private parts. I had to go away from jeans because sure enough someone would come in torn up jeans with half the rear end torn off. I don’t mind casual comfortable clothes, but some people lack the sense on appropriateness in the workplace. It’s why that Office episode about casual Friday always cracks me up.</p>
<p>My dd says one of her teachers dresses either as a sinner or a saint. Short, inapporpriate skirts one day, down to the ankle frumpy the next. It’s like the entire teaching profession needs a run through What Not To Wear.</p>
<p>It was so much easier back when I was a kid and all the female teachers wore polyester pantsuits and bow blouses. That was back when they still smoked in the teacher’s lounge and one was always afraid that a stray ember might cause the whole thing to go up in flames.</p>
<p>I have a friend, now retired, who started teaching elementary school in the late 60s. Female teachers were not alowed to wear “slacks” because it was thought to be too unseemly and liberated, so they wore mimi skirts and go-go boots instead! She still gets a big kick out of that.</p>
<p>When I was in high school, the teachers still wore dresses or skirts.</p>
<p>This was in the miniskirt era.</p>
<p>The boys lived for those moments when young female teachers wearing dresses had to reach up high to write on the blackboard. ;)</p>
<p>My mom taught in a girdle and high heels back in the late 1960’s.</p>
<p>While I don’t advocate that, I agree with MD Mom. At least in the OP’s instance, it was a sub. Our HS teachers routinely dress very unprofessionally, either as a slob or slut. Some of them are very young and dressed so much like the students that H has asked who the new student is. (very small school). </p>
<p>Our corp is K-12 one building–elem on one side; HS on the other. The elementary teachers do not do this. Elem principal (lady) = very professional. The tone is set by administration. Oh wait, our 30 year old principal shows up to ballgames with his pants falling off, really crappy dirty old tennis shoes, t-shirts, and not shaven. Not the impression I feel he should be making to parents and other schools.</p>
<p>I am happy to read that I am not the only one irked by this.</p>
<p>-Killjoys.</p>
<p>Haha, stats. The casual, as in I think I will go sit in the grass after work today, is more common around here than the outfits you enjoy.</p>
<p>As part of my job I pick up kids at an elementary school and take them to an after school care program every day. Since I drive a big van I have to go to the bus parking lot.
I get to see all the teachers walking their classes out to the bus lot to go home.</p>
<p>I am constantly amazed at what they are wearing…jeans so tight they look painted on, tight blouses,high heeled shoes that look like they should be worn to a bar or the opposite… ratty looking Nike’s that look like they’ve run a few miles too many topped by t-shirts with the school name emblazoned across the chest. Friday must be casual day because I see jeans. hoody sweatshirts,t-shirts. They look like they’re going for a hike in the park instead of teaching school. Most of these wardrobe offenders are the youngest teachers who appear to be about thirty and under.</p>
<p>Our schools have a dress code for the staff. The things you are describing would get someone sent home to change clothes…including a substitute.</p>
<p>I work on Wall Street and remember about 15 years ago we had a woman (professional analyst!) come to work one day in a crop top and hip-huggers. I was not her manager, but the most senior woman in the group, so her manager asked me to speak with her. </p>
<p>It was a very awkward conversation…I asked her if she had read the employee manual yet, specifically the dress code section. She seemed surprised her outfit was a problem. She didn’t last another 2 weeks - the work was too hard.</p>
<p>Scantily clad women magically, by their mere presence, close male generation gaps. George Will and Bob Costas can wax forever about how baseball connects generations of men and boys; it is simply not true. On these unseasonably warm spring days you can grab a seat on any bench in Central Park and watch dudes from 13 years of age to 80 share knowing nods when a short skirt vamps by.</p>
<p>We stand in united (but mostly silent) opposition to the moral outrage expressed on this thread.</p>
<p>The Fellas.</p>
<p>^^So I’m thinking if you were in English or Algebra II you would not be concentrating on the appropriate “material” :)</p>
<p>The world needs scientists too.</p>
<p>In our K-12 school, the head of HR sent out an email last week to all faculty/staff/administration about the dress code. The email specifically reminded everyone that short skirts and leggings were not part of a professional wardrobe. The next day I noticed this same head of HR in a short tight skirt, fishnet stockings and high boots. Again, not exactly professional for this environment.</p>
<p>Yes, we all know that men like to look at women’s bottoms, tops, faces, hair, legs, and anything else with a curve or bounce.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know how young men can even keep their minds on calculus or chemistry when there’s too much female flesh hanging out for them to goggle. It’s not just teachers that sometimes show up looking like streetwalkers, some of the students do as well.</p>
<p>I think it would help if the teachers “raised the bar” and dressed professionally for school. </p>
<p>It’s funny though…my kids’ high school had a uniform, but on “free dress days,” the girls were not allowed to wear sleeveless dresses or tops…yet the female teachers could wear those clothes every day of the week !?!</p>
<p>I agree with the poster above- The tone of professionalism is definitely set by the administrators. At one school I taught in, the principal has an iron fist about proper clothing for employees and students. At another school there is no dress code at all. Female students in short shorts, teachers in sneakers or skinny jeans.</p>
<p>She probably gets her cues from television. Ive noticed actors playing heads of hospitals to trial attorneys to FBI agents all have significant cleavage and form fitting outfits.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Hey, you’re talking about my beloved Cuddy.</p>
<p>Watch it there!</p>
<p>;)</p>