A Texas middle school is banning students from wearing all-black clothing because school officials say it’s associated with mental health issues.
Students at Charles Middle School in El Paso, Texas, headed back to school Monday, days after a letter from Principal Nick DeSantis outlined the school’s new dress code policy. The letter says the school is eliminating all-black clothing because it is “associated with depression and mental health issues and/or criminality.”
Norma De La Rosa, the president of El Paso Teachers Association, explained in more detail why the policy is in place and what clothing is allowed. She says teachers see a sudden change in students going from dressing with color to all black when they are depressed or stressed.
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Many parents and community members disagree with the policy, commenting online that clothing color doesn’t define a person’s mental state.
“The color of clothing has nothing to do with your ability to do anything or feel any emotion,” Alex Lucero said.
“Making students wear a different color isn’t going to magically make them a completely different person,” Alexis Contreras said.
Problem solved! That was easy!
Kids are sad and they display it by wearing black clothing.
Instead of doing anything about the kids mental health; we ban them from showing they’re sad?
Brilliance from texas as always.
I deal with mental health issues and trust me when I say that that’s totally what people think. I’ve even internalized it to the point where I push my emotions down like it’s nothing. Of course that doesn’t work one bit.
Back in the day you would’ve simply gone for drugs like alcohol or go down the drain some other way.
“These kids are sad and I don’t want to see them be sad. Emphasis on the ‘see’, of course, because who actually gives a shit amirite?”
I also love the “and/or criminality” part. Like bro if that were the case maybe ban ill-fitting suits or boat shoes or something, fuck. What a bunch of dipshits.
And furthermore, we have banned children from blowing their noses, because we see a sharp rise in the number of sick children when they start blowing their noses.
Chicken noodle soup is banned, as it is correlated with the flu. We pray that this may put a stop to this senseless productivity killer.
You know what middle schoolers have in spades? The time and inclination to fuck with authority. I see a whole bunch of students at that school showing up with black shoes, black pants, black shirts … and rainbow socks.
This was exactly my thoughts…being of middle school mentality but not age, lol
Yeah… Prohibiting students from wearing gang colors in middle school didn’t prevent our kids from being involved in gangs. Nor did it prevent gang related fights.
All it did was prevent self expression for regular kids.
But surely even Texans aren’t stupid enough to believe this would actually work, are they?
Oh hang on, they believe in the power of prayer. Move along.
OOOOOO I see a new way to control people’s bodies just dropped
Banning frowns because they’re a sign of unhappiness.
The students aren’t the brain broken ones here.
You just can’t make this shit up 🤦🏻♀️
Its so simple!
Just because the people running the school have concerns about their own mental health, doesn’t mean the kids should suffer.
I was pretty sure that thumbnail was some sort of small gnome in a robe with a pointy hat before I zoomed in lol
Are you sure it isn’t? The gnomes get everywhere.
starts cycling through colors until they’re all banned
