School Bans Yoga Pants To Avoid ‘Pretty Woman’ Hooker Scenario
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Girls have been banned from wearing leggings at a North Dakota school after officials said skin-tight garments make them look like prostitutes.
An assistant principal at Devils Lake School District showed video clips from the R-rated Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman” to some girls and asked them to consider how closely their yoga pants resembled clothing worn by the prostitute main character.
The administrator admits, however, that an English teacher was wrong to tell girls they looked like street prostitutes.
“A lot of the parents went on Facebook and we were discussing it,” parent Candace Olsen told KLVY-TV. “They were talking about how they think the boys should be able to control themselves and the girls should be able to wear the leggings and the jeggings and, you know, the skorts and stuff.”
The assistant principal said the ban on tight clothing that isn’t covered by other garments was intended to prevent distracting classmates and teachers.
Male teachers aren’t even allowed to notify girls when they’re wearing banned clothing, according to students.
“In some cases where there will be young male teachers, they can’t tell you what you’re wearing is distracting or anything, so they have to get a female teacher to tell you,” said senior Mariah Fixen.
She said girls are unhappy with the ban, because yoga pants, leggings, and tight jeans are fashionable right now.
“That’s what everyone wears, that’s their whole wardrobe,” she said. “So, basically sweat pants every day is what they’re asking for.”
It’s not clear what will happen when girls wear banned clothing to school.
Administrators said they would handle infractions on an “individual basis.”
Some students said parents could bring a change of clothes from home, but others said detention or even suspension were possible.Join #FOWLERNATION!!
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God I love yoga pants.
Should be a win win.
Guys love em
Girls love em
Yoga pants don’t kill people people kill people
Let’s just start fining people $120 for wearing yoga pants. And cut down on taxes.
Yoga pants are not for every use.
They are trippen. It’s up to the individual to dress themselves.
They sound like a bunch of old people “you kids today look like harlots”.
In North Dakota just about every girl wears yoga pants. Devils Lake High School is also banning jeggings and tight fitting jeans. The girls there pretty much have to wear a dress or sweat pants, or baggy jeans
I agree it’s fair to ban them if they want but saying girls look like a hooker is terrible. It’s a negative reinforcement that will make girls feel shitty about themselves and in courage guys to sexualize girls even more. Never say something like that young girls or women or just people in general it’s degrading.
Only see through I could see. Are they going ban tight jeans to.
They did.
Yep great point I agree ! See through is an issue otherwise just trying to control youth.
Make fair and have everyone where burkas.
yeah target both. Im down for that.
@Dreekus TheDragon I’m fine with kids were yoga pants but not see through.
Basic they want ban yoga pants because they are tight fitting. So are skinny jeans. Yet this was target only at girls.
If tight clothes are issue why not other tight fitting clothes on both sexes.
I think schools are too loose with their dress codes. School is the equivalent of work for a kid, and they should be required to wear simple business attire. That being said, if they are not going to require neat business like clothing, then there is nothing more wrong with yoga pants than with jeans, sneakers and T shirts.
+Gasai Yuno I’m so glad someone is commenting this!
+Gasai Yuno 🙁 At least american kids don’t have to wear a uniform :(((
@Gasai Yuno
The primary purpose of education is to give children the skills they need to function in society. Not just academically, but also behaviorally as well-the child’s ideas of normal behavior in public are formed in school. When a person dresses up for something, they are committing themselves to the idea that the activity is worth the effort to dress for. It is a way of reinforcing the idea that school is important-not just something you drop into if you have the time and inclination.
Some jobs are physical and trousers and dress shirts-no need for suits, just neat attire-are not appropriate. But just about all jobs in most business or government organizations require you to be neat and hold a certain standard as far as clothing. Hair is the person’s choice, for they cannot change that when they leave the job and go home. So dreadlocks, long hair on men, etc, is okay as far as I’m concerned. But trousers, not jeans, and a neat shirt with a collar is appropriate, and reinforces the idea to the student that something important is happening in that school.
@joeschultz2 But this is American society we’re talking about. Not everyone is going to be a business monkey and kids aren’t in a place of business, but a place of learning. It’s the only time in there lives where they don’t have to wear uniforms. There’s no need for them to conform to business attire and look just like everyone else when they don’t have to cater to customers who need to identify them as workers. There isn’t a dire need for them to adhere to a strict dress code now in their lives to know how to dress if they have a job that requires a uniform or strict dress code. Not every career choice requires business suit attire, especially in the internet age where people can work at home wearing whatever they want. School just needs to foster creativity, innovation and freedom of expression to find their identities rather than conformism doing just what they’re told.
When I talked about kids being the most oppressed, I’m saying that they already lack a lot of freedoms adults have when you really think about it. So why not just give them this freedom of expression and cut them some slack while they are forced to go to this building 5 days a week for several hours packed with other kids their age?
@Gasai Yuno
In less affluent societies, kids had to help out with the job of survival and to hell with the learning. Many societies are like that now. Enforcing a dress code for kids is treating them like adults, which is a good thing. Adults have their home lives, where they are free to dress and act like they want, and their work lives, which they are not. Kids follow the same model, only their work is not to support the family, but to prepare themselves to support themselves and their families-to-be, if any. The standards kids learn at school are the same standards they will use at work, with the teacher taking the place of the supervisor. They might as well learn the correct way to dress in that situation. They are free to wear whatever they want away from school. What’s oppressive about that?
If you wear yoga pants, or any other tight-fitting or revealing clothing, you’re practically asking to get ogled and/or groped. The fact of the matter is, everyone has urges, both men and women, and when one sex emphasizes their sex appeal, it only makes it harder for the other sex to have self control. This goes for men wearing revealing clothes such as skinny jeans or going shirtless as well. Personally, I don’t have any problem with yoga pants. I like the way they look and I think yoga itself is cool. I just want to explain this because there are quite a bit of people who will wear revealing clothing without a second thought.
because our minds take a backseat when it comes to the fundamental biological urges. your asking ppl to, try as they might, go against evolution.
+ColorlessAngelz Then why can’t these people just control themselves!!!
@Gasai Yuno I see.
@ColorlessAngelz When it comes to inappropriate touching like groping, it’s never simply out of lust like some impulsive uncontrollable act of sexual gratification like you see in porn, but because they are abusers with a disregard to the boundaries of another person and want to overpower them (which is why they don’t bother getting consent first or stop when it’s been denied). To strike down another myth in case it gets mentioned, it’s not some miscommunication either when it’s just for wearing certain kinds of clothes. There is always something wrong in the head with a molester, which could also be from the influence of drugs.
A normal healthy minded person wouldn’t just inappropriately touch a person out of lust for wearing certain kinds of clothing, especially not a stranger. It never warrants nor justifies sexual misconduct. It is in fact sexual abuse, no quotations.
As for ogling, looking at someone in public is perfectly legal and no rights are being violated. You would be right when it comes to ogling, but not in the case of any touching.
@Gasai Yuno You make a lot of good points in this comment. I won’t argue with any of it.
I suppose, as previously stated, my comments mainly refer to “sexual abuse” cases that are brought on simply by lust, such as with those who wear revealing clothing then try to make a federal case out of getting ogled/groped by those who are drawn in by their enticing clothing items.
Yoga pants are good … but you get some people that… are not so well fitted to the clothing.
Banning yoga pants saves us all an eye full of something we don’t wanna see.
If you want skimpy… goto the beach/pool.
I agree, they should be required to wear no pants at all
;p
No deal.
The pants must go.
I am not trying to sound sexist but why do women tend to wear yoga pants? is it the comfortability, fashion statement? I remember back in my day girls used to wear North Face jackets with skinny jeans, boy have times change.