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Originally Posted by KontanKarite
Distraction? I don't understand this sentiment. What's distracting? Do you guys not have the personal faculties of mind to focus on the curriculum? Suppress the self expression because... gee, we just can't HELP ourselves and would just continually stare at the girl with pink hair instead of learn something.
Uniforms are wrong and they don't accomplish what they're meant to accomplish.
You know what problem I had in school? I would day dream. Constantly. My own thoughts took me places and I would usually end up missing a lot of the class lecture. I would day dream of design, fashion, music, art, religion, politics... These day dreams distracted me from the classes. What kind of oppression could they instill in classes that could keep me from day dreaming?
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I totally agree with this. I would have put 'distraction' in quotation marks in my original post if I could edit it. You see, I've already raised this point with my teachers - people aren't going to focus on their clothing instead of the whiteboard. No-one really gives a shit. If a girl did colour her hair pink, people would get over the original shock and move on. But the teacher I raised this point with
really thought otherwise. She said that people would both:
a) Spend homework time at night worrying about what they're going to wear
b) Fidget or get 'distracted' in class.
I think this is bullshit. No-one I know would get distracted by clothing. So yeah, rather than worry about whether these accessories or clothing would 'distract' away from the lesson, they should worry whether their lessons are good enough to maintain our focus.
(As I mentioned in a couple of posts above, the ability of our teachers to communicate education is slipping though. So they're silly to think that any lack of focus would be a result of what one wears, rather than the fact that we don't get taught properly.
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