Seriously? Eighth grade?
READINGTON, N.J. – School board members will review a dress code since a principal banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to an eighth-grade dance.
I fail to see how parents do their daughters any favors when they allow them to present themselves as much older than they are. It’s a kind of faux maturity that often leads to girls being pushed into sexual situations before they’re emotionally ready. I mean, strapless dresses for an eighth grade dance? Really?
I guess I’m just a dork. I realize that kids are always eager to be more “grown up,” but I thought it was the parents’ job to rein them in. I guess I fell asleep and missed the new reality.
It must be really hard growing up now with all the mixed messages. Some of the garb I see parents let the youngest girls wear blows my mind sometimes.
And don’t even get me started on the “everything pink” princess crap…. I have one niece that has left that behind (thank goddess) and another one to go. I guess the pink thing makes for easy choices getting ready for school in the morning…..
I saw what I presumed was a 5 y.o. in heels on Easter – about 1″ high. Yes, I clopped around the house in mom’s heels a few times as a little one, but to have actual commercially made high heels for 5 y.o.’s is strange.
I say that if a fella wants to wear a strapless dress to the dance it’s nobody’s business. And if a young lady wants to wear jeans and a tee fansatic.
The problem is (as always) multi-faceted. Having worked as a School Resource Officer, young ladies would often show up dressed appropriately and then change at school. However, some parents don’t care. I and the Male teachers always refered it to the female Assistant Principal or the trio of Social Workers.
Those strapless gowns are held up by the invisible hand of free enterprise. Madison Avenue has to start early to convince young women to define their self-worth as eye-candy. Wouldn’t want them to focus on issues of substance in later life. They might even bother to vote.
The sad thing isn’t the strapless gowns. The sad thing is that anybody wants them.
“Held up by the invisible hand of free enterprise.” Priceless.