SHORT COMMUNICATION 133
Dress Codes Definitely Needed
By
Roger Behra
It is about time presents, educators, and school administrations wake up and smell the coffee and the sooner the better, because there are two serious problems that need immediate solutions. There are no automatic solutions. Parents and students have the most responsibility toward the solutions, while educators and administrators in all the public schools fully back them up.
The first serious problem is the teacher-student sexual contact misadventures that have greatly increased over recent times. Frequently over the year 2009, many articles in newspaper about teacher-student sexual misadventures. Many teachers and coaches, also, have been teachers and students in regards to sexual matters.
The second problem is the mode of dress that greatly stimulates the first serious problem and is allowed by parents, educators, and administrations. There obviously is a direct relationship between mode of dress and the sexual contact abuse that is taking place. The mode of dress is no excuse for the abuse. But male teachers are human, with human thoughts, desires, and responses when confronted unnecessarily with fashions that should not exist. Skin tight jeans, excessive breast cleavage, and even bare breasts showing is totally out of place in the classroom, or any place for that matter. Only a few teacher-student transgressions are ever reported or found out. It is fair to mention that credit be given to so many male teachers who do not transgress, especially in the face of so many obvious temptations.
It is time for parents, female students, educators, and school administrations to stop being accomplices in the serious, immoral, and increasing situation of student and teacher sexual abuse transgressions. You all have part to play in facing reality. And it all begins with a real change to a very modest mode of student classroom dress.
Public schools need to take a lesson from private and religious schools. They have already smelled the coffee. They have been on the right track for a long time. We live in a very undisciplined and immoral social situation in American society. Any unneeded temptations added in the classrooms of our public schools to be eliminated. The temptations and that burden placed on male teachers is way over the top to say the least.
R.B.
12-26-09