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Originally posted by aephi alum
This is also (in addition to Taualumna's point about dress codes) why you have to try to get your kids to internalize the message that some clothes are just inappropriate for certain situations, like school.
Once when I was in high school, a girl showed up in a see-through top with nothing but a bra underneath. A teacher saw her and sent her home to change. And he was criticized for it - by the school and by the girl's parents! Apparently he shouldn't have been looking at her boobs. 
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My lil sis' school has a great policy. It's a very specific dress code. If you break it - you have two options. Option A is that one of your parents comes and picks you up. Option B is that you wear one of the teacher's "extra" shirts/pants for the rest of the day. Often because the parents are unavailable/unwilling to pick up the child, option B is in effect.
The clothes are (clean but) the grossest clothes you have ever seen. Basically the teachers brought the clothes they wouldn't be seen it and then when to a second hand clothing store and bought the cheapest (read ugliest) clothes they could find for the rest. They're all huge, tacky, outfits (can't have thing too small for the biggest person in the class after all).
It took 1 month for the school to teach the kids who were dressing inappropriately to smarten up.
eta: James - people learn to be good parents by trying to be good parents. They learn from whatever they have available - teachers, friends, familiy. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's neccessary.
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