Originally Posted By twirlnhurl Yeah, because male students in high school don't even notice that there are females in the class until they wear a costume. Males in high school will pay more attention to the females then their studies no matter what the girls wear. Costumes aren't a legitimate distraction for more then a few minutes into school anyway. Students passing out petitions all day, that is a distraction to the learning process.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <That's a different kind of trick or treat.> Or, one might say, it's a different kind of trick... AND a different kind of treat.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I have no problem with banning costumes. I went to a public high school and we were never allowed to wear anything like that. Even during our "spirit week" each year leading up to homecoming for football (and again for backwards homecoming for basketball), when we had different themes for each day, we weren't allowed to have a pajama day or a hat day after my freshman year, since it went against the standard dress code. We had to substitute things like tacky day, animal day, and other less fun (but more appropriate) things. We had a pretty strict dress code that still allowed you to wear pretty much anything you wanted (within reasonable limits), so I wouldn't really have a problem with them allowing costumes that also fit in the standard dress code, but there is no reason that they should change the standards just so people can dress up. Yes, boys will be looking at girls, and girls will be looking at boys, but let's try to keep the focus on learning instead of looking at your classmates.
