Letter: School no place for fashion show

Monday, Dec. 13, 2004 | 8:54 a.m.

I can't figure who's the dumbest in this whole controversy about dress codes in schools, the students or their parents. Personally, I've always thought that school is a place to be educated, not to make fashion and religious statements.

Not long ago I was having a meal in my car at a fast-food establishment. In front of me was a vacant lot. To my entertainment I watched a teenage boy trying to run with a backpack over his right shoulder and trying to hold up his over-sized pants with his left hand. I'm sure some day he will become a leader of something. If male and female students decide to wear thongs to school, I guess that would be all right -- it's really freedom of expression.

If freedom was a food many people would want to eat themselves to death.

JOHN TOMINSKY

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