Your rights? Wrong!

Posted by Anne Clayton (03.27.07, 5:14 PM)

I have just returned from an idyllic week in Seagrove Beach, where I mostly ignored everything but sunscreen, my next meal, sunscreen and cocktail hour…my idea of the perfect vacation. So I get home and am listening to the local news, and what I heard really made me mad. I...

I have just returned from an idyllic week in Seagrove Beach, where I mostly ignored everything but sunscreen, my next meal, sunscreen and cocktail hour…my idea of the perfect vacation. So I get home and am listening to the local news, and what I heard really made me mad. I actually heard some high school kid telling me that being asked to adhere to a dress code—not a uniform, but a dress code—was a violation of her rights and inhibited her ability to express herself. What a load of crap!

Instead of expressing yourself by wearing way-too-short skirts, suggestively low-cut, sometimes navel-baring blouses, baggy pants that show your underwear and huge untucked ratty shirts, how about expressing yourself on your own time on the weekends, but when at school express yourself with a reasonably neat, businesslike appearance and good grades. Express yourself by becoming involved in your school and in your community!

As far as I'm concerned, as long as you're getting an education that is being paid for with my hard-earned tax dollars, you do't have many rights. You do what you are told and follow the rules. When you graduate from high school with the education that I helped pay for and you go to work and pay taxes, then you have the right to dress and act any way you want, but until then, you have limited rights while in a public place getting a public education on my nickel!