Skans » Today, 7:29 am » wrote: ↑
I have to agree with this. The better private schools (K-12) have dress codes and even uniforms. Ivy league schools used to have dress codes for most of the 20th century.
Now, those colleges and universities who actually demand excellence from their students and faculty do have dress codes. Further, the best graduate schools definitely have dress codes which they actually enforce.
How a person presents themselves says something about who they are. When you are a kid, no one needs or wants to hear your uneducated opinions - so you wear a uniform mandated by those who are far more educated than you are, while you are absorbing enough information to some day have an opinion worthy of expression.
In college, some "liberal" schools believe their students suddenly have informed opinions worthy of expression, so they have relaxed the dress code to bare decency, in order to show their flock that professors and administrators value their opinions. Truth,
they don't! They despise these ripped-jeans wearing ignorant sluts and tattooed, gauge-wearing chronic-masturbaters. But, they need the money.
Then, there are a few private schools, most of which are affiliated with a religious denomination. These institutions expect their professors to actually teach a structured curriculum. They expect their students to dress respectfully and even professionally to prepare them for why lies ahead. Sadly, they need money too - and, yes, even these institutions are relaxing their dress codes in an effort to pander to more students. They do this because school administrators, professors and even school governors tend to be poor at communicating and marketing. They are weak, and have too much rot from within to "sell" high-standards to an incoming class of Freshmen.
Morning rant over.