Comments on: Stupid Kids

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:44:55 +0000

I agree with the court ruling. I also believe these brats (with their parents) should be sat down and forced to watch films of the concentration camps and the whole Nazi experience lest they dare to compare their experiences with those of the Holocaust victims again. Little shits.

Shouldn’t Godwin’s Law be used outside the Internets also?

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:55:43 +0000

I’m very pro-uniform.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:13:48 +0000

School uniforms help improve grades while reducing behavior problems. They seem like a great idea to me.

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:50:54 +0000

the idea is that the uniforms stop the poor kids looking so poor, and it stops the rich ones looking so rich (as well as not being jacked of their clothing). The other thing is it helps provide an identity to be proud of (I go to THIS school). Aren’t Frat houses similar?
The scouting movement used it’s seemingly bizarre uniform to iron out the differences between classes of children to good effect, as does the armed forces, police etc.

By: Diamond LeGrande

Diamond LeGrande — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:47:47 +0000

I dunno, Quaker. I know by eighth grade, I could point out the fascist pigs with the best of them. But really, this reaction is actually dumber than school uniforms.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:36:46 +0000

Wait a minute. The kids here are a fifth grader and a seventh grader. There couldn’t be a parent with a hidden agenda here, could there?

By: Colorado Dave

Colorado Dave — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:46:29 +0000

Actually anyone who compares anything short of genocide and attempted world domination to the Nazis is a freaking idiot.

The Nazis killed over 6 million people and attempted to conquer the world. Yea, that’s just like making kids wear decent clothes and pay attention in class.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:02:46 +0000

I’m not. My kids school has a “dress code” — white shirts and blue pants. Now everyone looks like a Jehovah’s Witness.

School Administrators need to look for creative, reasonable ways to help balance fashion against learning. Imposing uniforms or dress codes is an easy, zero-tolerance out that in the end, helps neither students nor teachers.

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:00:05 +0000

Fyi Oliver, they’re not just talking about Japanese schoolgirls….

But actually, I agree with you. I would much prefer school uniforms over the crap the parents are letting their kids dress in, and the crap that Abercrombie & Fitch, etc., are pushing on our kids.

Maybe you can come over and we can sit on our porch drinking beer and chasing the kids off the lawn.