Had to add this one - Cathlic Girls are tough!

[Acts 2:38 girl]

Skirts on girls/woman are supposed to be worn for reasons of modesty, but there's nothing modest about the lengths of some school uniforms.  Even at my son's school (he goes to a Christian school) they require uniforms, and the girls jumpers are an inch or two above the knee.  Sorry, but I just think little girls should be wearing longer shirts.  IMO!

[brainpause]

Skirts on girls/woman are supposed to be worn for reasons of modesty, but there's nothing modest about the lengths of some school uniforms. Even at my son's school (he goes to a Christian school) they require uniforms, and the girls jumpers are an inch or two above the knee. Sorry, but I just think little girls should be wearing longer shirts. IMO!

Andrea,
 
I grew up in a very conservative home as well, and you and I think along the same lines. In fact, I wasn't allowed to wear shorts unless they reached the knees!
 
Of course, if I have a daughter, she will be wearing a bubble suit!:J
 
Larry

[Acts 2:38 girl]

Of course, if I have a daughter, she will be wearing a bubble suit!

Amen!  Where can I find a store that makes them??!!

[birol]

Why is it that it is the catholic high school girls wearing those skirts which end where their lower body ends ? That is the way they are here in ONtario.

The Public school girls prefer to wear pants or when they wear skirts, it is tastefully worn. You would think, going to a religious school they would dress little bit less revealing ? Are they protesting having to wear skirts this way ?

As for the flasher, he should be glad he is alive .....I think he learned his lesson

[angelsmom10]

Both our girls went all thru catholic grade and high school.  Yes they do where the skirts short (they roll them to get the length) before and after school --- BUT during school they do have tight restrictions (at least around here).  Also, the girls around here wear shorts under the skirts.  Our local high school just changed their uniforms this year to "SKORTS".  Our youngest DD was on the uniform comittee to update the uniforms and since everything wasn't approved till almost the end of the year last year, they are enforcing the NEW uniforms with the start of this school season -- incoming was mandatory to have the new uniforms and the other classes were allowed to keep the old ones till new was needed.

Since we don't have anymore girls, I don't know the status of being able to roll or anything.

[campingboaters]

This happened in my neck of the woods  -- I'm from just outside of Philly and grew up in Philly.  The girls at that high school are NOT to be messed with in general -- they have a reputation for being tough.  The man who did this MUST have a serious problem if he thought he could get away with it with those girls!  Seems to me, he got what he deserved as the courts could not deal with him!  Known sexual predators (as he was labeled) should be locked away for life!   Sorry for the soap-box...
 
Now -- as for the skirts... 95% of the Catholic School kids I knew were WILD -- so repressed that they rebeled ANY and every chance they got.  Maybe I just knew the wrong crowds!    
 
I think SOME parents put so much pressure on their kids to be "good".  Granted, this is not just a problem with Catholic school kids.  My SIL is repressing her kids so much in EVERYTHING they can do or even eat, that they just go ape when not around her.  What is worst is they have learned to lie to her so that they tell her what she wants to hear instead of letting her kids experience life (to a certain extent of course).  So sad.

[Acts 2:38 girl]

Maybe if more sexual predators got physically punished for thier behavior, they wouldn't be so quick to try it again.  It's all about control for them, isn't it?  
Do any of you remember that teenager from the US that was visiting China (?) about 10 years ago and got caught vandelizing a car.  There was a huge controversy because they wanted to punish him by hitting him with a "switch" that was in inch or two in diameter.  The US tried to get him off, but in the end they carried out the punishment and you never heard a word about it again, like if he recieved any lasting damage from it.  I think the worst part was it was so public, his face was everywhere.   I don't know if the punishment quite fit the crime, but I bet this man parks his car at the end of the lot at the mall!

[Miss-Teri]

Maybe if more sexual predators got physically punished for thier behavior, they wouldn't be so quick to try it again.  It's all about control for them, isn't it?  
Do any of you remember that teenager from the US that was visiting China (?) about 10 years ago and got caught vandelizing a car.  There was a huge controversy because they wanted to punish him by hitting him with a "switch" that was in inch or two in diameter.  The US tried to get him off, but in the end they carried out the punishment and you never heard a word about it again, like if he recieved any lasting damage from it.  I think the worst part was it was so public, his face was everywhere.   I don't know if the punishment quite fit the crime, but I bet this man parks his car at the end of the lot at the mall!

He was a rich little brat that expected mommy and daddy to buy his way out of that and it didn't work.  I even seem to remember the family's argument that "He was just being a boy."  Who knows?  Maybe his being punished for his actions for probably the first time in his life made him grow up to be a decent human being.  
-Teri

[brainpause]

That happened in Singapore. They were wanting to use a bamboo switch on him. As I remember it (IIRC), he did get the beating, but a few less swings. That's why the crime rate is so low in Singapore. You get a beating for something "minor" like car vandalism.
 
Larry

[Acts 2:38 girl]

I wonder what they would've done to this flasher! :eek: