Dress Codes To Let Students Chew Gum In High School

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Is it just me or have the rules gone by the wayside. It is a problem for some teachers who are letting students chew gum in class, talk to other classmates during the class time, getting up a walking around without permission, or even messing around the hallways. Student are getting away with a lot of unacceptable behavior. Not only that, I noticed that the dress codes have been loosened. I have seen boys walking around with their pants halfway down their rear-end and girls wearing really tight clothes and showing there under garments! I just feel students should be respecting the rules, that is why they are there, and teachers shouldn’t be so lenient. I think I may have a few solutions to fix this problem. First and foremost, we need to have

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