Did Little Rock experience a rash of Sharon Stone wannabes?
The school district in Little Rock, Ark. has announced plans for a dress code that will require teachers to wear underwear. Every single day. Female teachers will have to wear bras, too.
An Aug. 29 letter from the Little Rock School District’s Office of the Superintendent to all employees explains that the dress code will officially go into effect in the fall of 2014.
“Foundational garments shall be worn and not visible with respect to color, style, and/or fabric,” the letter reads. “No see-through or sheer clothing shall be allowed, and no skin shall be visible between pants/trousers, skirts, and shirts/blouses at any time.”
Of course, union members are not happy.
Organized labor vocally opposes the new universal underwear requirement and the rest of the non-draconian dress code. […]
In the letter, Koehler explains her fear that “if an employee refuses to go home and change they can be considered insubordinate and risk losing their job based on an opinion.”
It’s bad enough there has to be a dress code that detailed, worse still there is controversy over it.
It’s little stuff like this that make me despair for our country. I don’t think the majority of the people are fit to be freemen anymore. They lack the civic virtues to be anything other than wards of the state.
Are only female teachers are required to wear bras in this hetronormalpatriarchial school district? Sexist pigs!
The article fails to mention if students will be held to the same standard.
you would think that within the hallowed halls of intellectual rigor that constitute the Little Rock school system a clothed nipple would perhaps be the least of everyone’s worries. human body being what it is. but the pearls must be grasped.
from the schools that brought you institutionalized intelligent design i guess.
Are only female teachers are required to wear bras in this hetronormalpatriarchial school district? Sexist pigs!
I’ve only known one male teacher who needed one… *shrug*
“. . . risk losing their job based on an opinion.”
But somehow in the lack of rub of genitalia on undergarment, they should end up keeping their job based on an opinion?
Wait, what?
How is the presence or absence of undergarments an “opinion”? They are either being worn or they are not. There is no “guess so” involved.
I had no idea that evolutionists opposed underwear – thanks for the info, Mr. Khunter.
Dale is really quite stupid. Even the average idiot is a genius in comparison.
“you would think that within the hallowed halls of intellectual rigor that constitute the Little Rock school system a clothed nipple would perhaps be the least of everyone’s worries. human body being what it is. but the pearls must be grasped”
Yeah, Little Rock has SO much to learn about education from more progressive cities…like Detroit or Chicago.
So jockstraps are to be required for all students in gym? And what of the swim-suit problem?
You have to wonder if they had a moment like in “A Few Good Men” – a teacher being told she has to wear undies an her replying, “Nowhere in the manual does it specify I have to wear.” What will they have to spell out next?
So I guess the idea here is students will be grabbing a quickie behind the stairwell inbetween classes only with other students?
Semper ubi sububi, people.
“Underwear…
will be worn on the outside…
so… we can check.”
In other underwear news, “IOC reinstates wrestling for 2020 Olympics.”
Next they’ll demand literature teachers know how to read, math teachers know how to add and subtract, and geography teachers know how to find Damascus with both hands, a flashlight and a map.
“. . .from the schools that brought you Bill Clinton”
FTFY, Dale.
Dalek, you’re just phoning it in. Try again later.
One of the most memorable middle school classes I recall featured a young, short-skirt-wearing, just out of grad school teach who sat with her fit, uncrossed legs all wiggling on the front edge of her desk; her sole purpose being to torture 13 y/o males. She hated us that much I suppose.
It wasn’t a math class I don’t think…
The essence of modern identity based grievance monger politics: “My dick is like an extra person. My dick should get to vote. My dick should be able to donate to causes like a separate person. My dick should be able to get food stamps and go on welfare. My dick has rights. My dick is angry. My dick isn’t going to hide any more! My dick will not be silent! But my dick should not have to pay taxes. “
what a dick
My dick is thinking of running for Congress.
While I’ll admit to being one of the more social issue killjoys around here, this is one of those “How can they know without checking?” rules/laws that I do not like.
Maybe society has just been dumbed/corrupted down to the point where these kinds of rules have to actually be on the books so you can fire a teacher for ever demonstrating that he or she isn’t wearing underwear.
Perhaps Dale could visit my children’s parochial school, a place where the faculty and students dress modestly and which teaches all theories regarding origins from Genesis to Darwin. Average ACT: 29
Dale functions by spitting out irrelevancies. I don’t think it can pass a Turing test.
My guess is it’s more a presumption of if we can’t can’t see it, then it must be approproate. And my guess? Instead of taking one, maybe two teachers aside for an adult, “y’know, that look was was barely apppropriate twelve years and forty pounds ago,” or “y’know, you’re not one the studenets any more, so maybe stop trying to dress like one,” they had to write a policy, lest someone gets a case of the feeling singled out butthurt.
I seem to recall that our public school teachers are claiming that they need to be paid more because they are professionals, damn it! I never knew that professionals didn’t know what they should wear, but apparently my ignorance is showing.
Of course, the obvious, though unasked and answered question is: just what was going on that led to the imposition of this dress code?
Ernst Schreiber says September 9, 2013 at 8:13 am – My guess is it’s more a presumption of if we can’t can’t see it, then it must be appropriate.
I don’t really have a big problem with that presumption, so long as “we can’t see it” is actually true. There may be legitimate reasons (temporary or long term) to wish to avoid wearing particular garments that have nothing to do with being provocative or inappropriate.
You’re probably right about the cause – not being able to chastise particular offenders without standardizing the rules.
Darleen underwear is a needless and time-consuming nuisance in this situation you have to understand that America’s public school teachers have needs and a lot of times they only have a few minutes between classes to boink a student
Think of it as a NASCAR pit stop
There I give you an epiphany you are welcome
Our edumacation professionals…
I seem to recall that our public school teachers are claiming that they need to be paid more because they are professionals, damn it! I never knew that professionals didn’t know what they should wear, but apparently my ignorance is showing. At what poi…
Feets is making sense.
I agree with Ed Asner.
The sixth seal must have just bustid open.
Mr Schreiber wrote:
FTFY
They have an exception that allows the gym teachers to wear sweatsuits, something which is a reasonable part-of-the-job exception. Does that mean that the JROTC instructors can go commando? :)
The focus here seems to be on bras which is easy enough to tell is “missing” for many types of clothing. What I don’t get is that I though that “no bra” feminism was a relic of the 70s.
Will there be an inspection each morning? You can’t tell thongs from commando without a close inspection.
Ouroboros, your idea sounds good in theory, however, considering how many teachers seem to be unaware of how many years and pounds they have added….
It’s an ugly job but someone has to do it.
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I SAW WHAT YOU WERE EATING UNDER THERE…
On the one hand, I can see where a recalcitrant union-protected “teacher” might refuse orders to wear a bra because “it’s not in the manual,” and thus force management to put the requirement in writing. On the other hand, I wonder why we’re forced to pay top dollar for so much management in our school districts, when those managers have no authority outside of making edits to the manual. Couldn’t we save a lot of money by letting the hall monitors enforce the manual?
Idiocation administrators are hall monitors … with six-figure salaries.
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