News you can use: First, Adobe has a deal for students on CS5.5. I know is LOOKS expensive, but it's really quite discounted. Also, Mashable has a great article on Best Practices for Media Companies on Facebook. Finally, at least one Education Ministry office in South Korea has found a novel solution to rising hemlines. Read the article and leave your comment below. Is this the way to handle short skirts? Why or why not? Leave the comment no later than the end of your class period today. Note: when leaving your comment, please remember to use professional language.
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This is not the way to handle short skirts, because it will actually condone wearing short shirts. By putting the boards in font of the desks they are saying you can wear short skirts because we have a solution so that you will not be exposed. Since, the students would have an "accommodation" they would continue to wear short skirts.
ReplyDeleteI don't think placing boards in front of the desks would be necessary. They could just change the school rules about the length of the skirts. Placing boards in front of desks will cost a lot but changing the school rules won't cost anything.
ReplyDeleteInstead of paying $700,000 for boards, why can't the girls just buy longer skirts or wear shorts under their skirts? It would save a lot more money.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a waste of money to pay that much for boards in front of desks. They just have to make the girls wear slightly longer skirts. That would solve the problem. Having slightly longer skirts would save them the $700,000.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, this solution to rising hemlines is useless. Even if they put boards over their skirts, it still doesn't change the fact that the girls are wearing short skirts. If it bothers them that much, then sure, go for it, but having to spend over $700,000 just for short skirts is too much money.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a good idea to put boards in front of desks to make the students feel more "comfortable". There may be people against it now, but most likely even if they did go with the other plan to enforce rules on school uniforms there would still be controversy. Not everyone is going to agree on one thing and they already thought of a plan and I think its a wise decision to go through with it sooner rather than later.
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ReplyDeleteI really dont think wasting hundreds of dollars to install boards on every desk is the best idea. Of all things the school's money can be used for...to install boards on desks. Its just a big, fat sign telling the students to continue wearing short skirts. I know that Korea is VERY humid in the summer, but there are other options open to accommodate the heat and humidity.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is an acceptable way to handle short skirts. When Ganngwon's Board of Education decided to put boards in front of the desks to cover the student from exposing their short skirts, they were basically allowing these girls to wear short skirts. Personally, I think they shouldn't spend that much money on the comfort of their students. They should worry less about the dress code and should focus more on the students' education.
ReplyDeleteInstead of wasting $700,000 on boards, the school should make girls' skirts longer.
ReplyDeleteIt's outrageous to spend $700,000 to fit the comfort of the girls wearing short skirts. Buying 50,000 new desks isn't the best solution to solve the short skirts issue. The administration is obviously unhappy with the girls wearing short skirts, so why don't they simply change the school policy to extend the hemlines of the skirts. This is more reasonable than spending 700 grand on desks. If they had to spend $700,000, they should at least spend it on educational purposes instead of accessories.
ReplyDeleteI myself do not think that schools should spend so much money on student comfort. Also it might depend on what kind of school it is, like if it were a private school then maybe some amount of money should be spent for student comfort, but for public school it should not be done, especially the amount of money spent doing it. That kind of money should ultimately be spent on something more towards education.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that this is the way to handle short skirts in school. The school should prevent them from wearing these short skirts not support them. The students shouldn't even wear them if they don't feel comfortable. They should just enforce a rule, which doesn't cost money, rather than spending $700,000 on boards to "comfort" their students. This act is kind of saying "Go ahead wear even shorter skirts."
ReplyDeleteI don't think putting boards in front of students desks is an efficient solution to making students feel comfortable. It's a waste of a lot of money. If the school really cared and viewed this as an issue they could have just made up a school rule which would have been relatively free.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion spending money to improve a schools dress code is uneccessary and a waste of money.Why spend money on establishing a dress code when you can create new rules to improve the students attire? for example at our school we have rules specifically for our dress i.e. shoulders being covered, no short shorts etc. why not just make a mandatory rule making the female students in Japan have longer skirts? it saves money and would also improve the problem their having with females "short" uniform skirts.
ReplyDeleteI think its ridiculous to spend $700,000 on a piece of wood for students that wear short skirts, the girls should just wear shorts under their shorts it’ll be less expensive, not to mention students shouldn’t be wearing disruptive clothing to school anyway. There administrators need to step in and enforce that the girls wear something under their skirts or wear longer skirts that don’t distract other scholars.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is the way to handle short skirts because students will be able to dress how they please without causing uncomfortableness.
ReplyDeleteI think its a waste of money, too. $700,000 is a lot of money and it definitely could be spend on something better. Longer skirts would make more sense to me.
ReplyDeleteIn my persepective, I hoestly don't thinkg putting boards in fron of students dests is a good idea to handle short skirts. It wouldn't make the students feel comfortable at all. Spending expensives on new skirts and desk will be just a waste of money. The policy should worry on students education and about the students dress code.
ReplyDeleteIt's a waste of money to spend $700,000 dollars on boards to cover the desks, and the schools would also be sending the wrong message. They'd be letting the female students know that it is okay to wear short skirts, when the problem is that it's not okay. So the real issue would be making new dress codes.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a good way to handle short skirts. People are going to do what they want. Instead of making a trouble maker out of them, just make the conditions better for everybody. They don't want to force you to do anything like the dictatorship to the North. They're the model for freedom of expression that the US should try following.
ReplyDeleteI feel that is was waste of money honestly. People should already know the school's dress codes.
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