Stop focusing on what we wear and worry about what we learn
April 2, 2015
Many students wonder why do we have dress code or why do they make a big deal about dress code? Students, mainly girls, come to school to learn, not to get detention for dress code. Like it’s not even that important on how we dress. They should be happy that students actually come to school. It’s like they are judging us on the way we dress. Picking on the same girl for dress code, while there is so much other girls twice as worst than that same girl. They make like we’ll come to school naked.
We live on an island near the equator. What do they expect, us to wear pants every single day and suffer with heat. NO I don’t think so.
School is school and we go to school to learn not to get detention or anything. Instead of focusing on dress code, try and learn how to focus on us students and making the education better; just saying because it is true. You guys focus more on dress code than any student in school. If you want more students to go to college and succeed, try make school interesting and not boring and lame. Also try and have electives or class that students actually like and will learn in. Dress code isn’t even important, our education is. Focus more on the students and our education, maybe more students will go off to college than stay back here and not have a life.
One teacher thinks having uniforms will solve everything. Well, um, thatʻs wrong. As a student you will just make it more worse and more students will not come to school. They really don’t care if they graduate or not because you guys as teachers and staff don’t make school interesting. Like for example when teachers give a lesson, the lesson is so boring to where students would fall asleep, not want to come to class or even come to school at all. Uniforms are just a waste of money because students will just throw it away and not even bother with it. Honestly uniforms are ugly and not everyone will match in it or feel comfortable. As you look around school, you see how they dress in the clothes they are comfortable in and match in. Having teachers and staff think about bringing uniforms back will just make everything more worse for them and the students. Right there these teachers and staff are just asking for more and more problems/drama in school.
As a student in Kohala High School, I think these teachers should just stop it with this dress code and start focusing on their studentsʻ education. These teachers say they want us to succeed in life and get out of this town; um, well, then start focusing on us students and make our education better and interesting to where students would actually like coming to school and ready to learn. Dress code isn’t as important as our education.
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Ms. Brown • May 4, 2015 at 4:03 pm
Thank you for bringing to light your concerns involving the dress code and possible future uniform policy. I completely agree with you. Your education is exceedingly important and I believe that teachers should be focused on that education. I do not, however, agree with the idea that dress code is not important and is unrelated to your education. Education and your attire are very closely related. They impact each other directly, whether you choose to acknowledge that fact or not. We as teachers are here to help prepare you for work and/or college. SCHOOL is to prepare you for work and/or college. When you are set free from school and plunge into the work force, you will find that uniforms and/or a dress code are a must. Outfits that expose inappropriate parts of the body are degrading to those who wear them and make many of those who see them uncomfortable. We are NOT proposing that you wear long pants all the time. That would be ridiculous. We are stressing, however, the importance of respectable dress. Have you ever heard the term “dressing for the occasion”? There is a time and place for everything, including wearing see-through tops and insanely short shorts. That place is not at school. School is a place for academic learning. THAT is where students should be looking to “stand out.”
And let me ask you, what is the purpose of rules? To make your lives miserable? No. To break them? No. Rules at this school are put into place to assist and guide you young people into becoming contributing members of society. If you don’t learn to obey rules now, when will you?
You will also find that uniform cost is extremely inexpensive. T-shirts will be about $6.00 each. You could buy 5 shirts and still be spending less money than you would on the tops majority of students purchase.
I think you have been misinformed in regards to the number of students who are actually in favor of a uniform policy. Many students are fine with a uniform policy and actually support it, stating it would make choosing an outfit in the morning much easier. Other students have stated they like the idea of “looking like a team.” Still others have stated that uniforms would make things “feel more official” and perhaps help students to focus more on their academics. Believe it or not, some students actually like the look of uniforms. What is being proposed is the idea of a four day uniform week with a free dress or Aloha Friday. On Friday, students will be able to wear their own clothes, as long as they fall within dress code regulations. The proposal also involves different types of tops: t-shirts, tank tops, long-sleeved shirts, collared shirts and boat-necked/v-necked shirts. How can you make statements that uniforms are “ugly” when you haven’t even seen what one looks like?
I also do not believe that teachers should just be “happy that students actually come to school.” We expect so much more from you folks than just coming to school. You should expect more as well.
I do not believe that any teacher believes that uniforms will solve EVERYTHING…but it’s a start.