Alright, everything else you've said, I agree with. Being able to dress how you want isn't a right. However, the notion that someone should be fucked for his entire life based on his preferences as a teenager is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever heard. Are you honestly of the opinion that someone should be fucked forever if they make a reasonably simple mistake that won't have any terrible permanent consequences except for those you yourself impose upon them?Darth Wong wrote:Let me make this perfectly clear to you, dipshit: any student who would actually put his education in jeopardy for the sake of his fashion sense deserves to live in a slum for the rest of his life, and I would personally take great pleasure in making sure he goes there, by expelling the little shit.
My cousin couldn't have cared less in high school, and actually nearly dropped out. By going the community college route, and working enough to save up the cash, he'll soon have a degree in neurobiology (forget from where). Now, this isn't an attempt at anecdotal evidence, so don't take it as that. If you apply your general principle of sending someone to the slums for life because as a teenager they worried more about irrelevant crap, then my cousin should have stayed fucked for life instead of actually making an effort at improving himself after fucking up. I'm trying to apply your general principle to a specific situation: do you think my cousin's done something wrong, or ought not to have had the chance to actually make a comeback?
As for the rest of the shit... well, it's obvious that public education exists for the sake of educating the students, not making them happy, but the public education system still ought to be concerned with their well-being, since that does actually have an effect on how well they'll be able to learn. This doesn't mean that the school has to bow to the whim of its student body, only that the notion that the school ought to be able to say, "Fuck the students, they don't matter!" is kinda dumb when the entire system is for educating them. Also, if a policy generally causes more troubles to the education of the student body than actual benefits, that policy is damned stupid. In the case of the clevage rule, this rule probably won't really bother students after they get use to it a bit, and will take away something that I can personally say is quite a distraction from education.
Editor's note: Split from here.