Oh and I went to private school with a real dress code (slacks, polos, certain shorts/skirts, and certain shoes), and THAT solved nothing. Just more BS for administrators to yell at the kids for. Girls still rolled up their skirts to make them shorter. Guys still bought baggy versions of slacks. And jocks got special blind eyes turned to them on issues such as jeans, facial hair, and the like.
I mean when you spranged an ankle, and it was medically wrapped, sandals were OK. But that was about it.

Point of fact is that schools (at least the one public one my wife went to less than a couple years ago) already have minimum dress code rules. Girls can't wear spaghetti strap shirts. I think flip flops aren't allowed (often for open toed safety/insurance reasons). And definitely kids can't wear blatantly "sexy" or grossly inappropriate items. And yeah for the poor families with little income during these times, let's tell them to go buy polo shirts and slacks that they might not have or have the money for. Come on folks.

Actually I believe it's Citizenship in the Community merit badge. Just saying, from an Eagle Scout.

NO it doesn't have to be factored in. Your tacit acceptance of kiddie porn and sexual predators (especially against the young) is disturbing to say the least. And angry, check out his pathetic defense of Chester Stiles to see a perfect case in point.

Angry, I held my nose and checked it. It basically means a tween (think a 10-14 yo) girl who dresses like a girl in her 20s. This means heels, make-up, minidresses, etc. You get the idea, dressing way past what her age is. They don't understand that the clothes they are wearing are fethishized and have become sex symbols in and of themselves (ie sexy heels). Often they are only mimicking what they see mommy wearing. Pervs run with this and then claim these "sexualized" girls then deserve what they get when they engage in some sort of exchange with an older man. Sorry but these girls don't understand what they are doing and what it truly involves. And even if they did understand and want it, it's not the provence of an older man to engage in such an act with them. It's exploitation, plain and simple.

I'm not really boftx. One word that comes up eventually: stubble.

What? You've proven nothing but a bend for defending the sick. At least the ACLU has the fig leaf cover of giving every person their constitutional right to due process and a trial.
Your defense of some sicko hitting on a 13 yo wading into matters out of her league is pathetic. Just because it was done back in the day doesn't sanction it right now. Unless you really feel that when you have epilepsy you need the demons purged/beaten out of you. Or that most diseases can be remedied with timely bloodletting to cure the vapours. Or if we are going with old time law, why isn't the concept of coverage still in vogue? I mean once I married my wife, her personality, property, and basically herself should be folded into me, being the man and all, right?
And yeah the whole she wanted it thing doesn't excuse it. It's still exploitation. The girl or boy doesn't understand the full ramifications of what they are doing. Plain and simple, because they are in a very literal sense of the word, children. So keep defending sickos, because birds of a feather seem to flock together.

First, as said, the men are the ones going after these girls. Second, those thongs that you refered to were discontinued promptly after the parental uproar over it.
Third is that these men going after CHILDREN are sick. If they don't like the US's laws then you know what?
There's always the Roman Polanksy solution, just move to France. Consenting age is only 13 there, or so I've heard.

naw, ya think gmag?
I mean there are plenty of places that the second amendment doesn't apply (similar to shouting "fire" in a crowded theater). Can regular citizens be packing in police stations? No.
Can regular citizens be packing in airports? No.
Same with jails/correctional facilities.
Same for military installations.
Same for courthouses/most high end public buildings such as city hall or the White House.
I'm also pretty sure that you can't be packing in a hospital.
Ever go to a concert? Not allowed there.
Schools are the same. Our children shouldn't be allowed to go to school packing heat. Why would they? There would be blurry line between a well meaning kid protecting him/herself and another Columbine.