The presentation and passage of Senate Bill 101 is without a doubt the most important piece of legislation considered to help with the education of our children in the past century. Yes, it is so important to see that this piece of legislation reaches the floor of the Senate for a vote and then passed along to the state’s House of Representatives for consideration as quickly as possible.
Sen. Smitherman and Sen. Coleman have taken the initiative to take action and I, for one, am proud to lend my support for their bill.
Oh, you do not know what Senate Bill 101 is about? I’m sorry. I should have explained at the beginning. Sens. Smitherman and Coleman are proposing legislation to make it illegal for students in our public education system, elementary through high school, to expose under britches intended to cover private parts. See? I told you this is important stuff they are dealing with in Montgomery.
We must provide our children a safe and healthy environment for learning. Having to sit and look at someone’s nasty skid-marked under drawers is unsafe for our eyesight and unhealthy I’m sure. It is just plain sickening. No one should be exposed to such.
According to Dr. Eugene White, the superintendent of the Indianapolis school system and a former Phenix City native, we have raised a whole generation of children who have no idea how to properly use a belt. I have to agree.
The legislation proposed by the senators will alleviate this problem. It will “prohibit a student enrolled in a public elementary through high school from intentionally wearing in any manner a garment that would display or expose his or her underwear that is intended to cover the private parts of the person while the student is in attendance at the school; and to provide for penalties.” Wow, imagine that. Students will be required to dress properly while in school and not be a distraction to the other students who may wish to spend their time in school learning.
If students fail to follow the law, if passed, they will face penalties. For the first offense, students will be given a verbal warning by the school principal and the principal shall inform the parents of the student by telephone call or other method of warning. For the second offense, students shall be suspended from regular school and placed in an in-school alternative program for three days and the parents shall be informed by telephone and sent a written letter. A third offense will result in the student being suspended and placed in an in-school alternative program for 10 days and the principal shall meet with the parents of the student. When a student violates the law for a fourth time, the student shall be suspended from all classes of instruction on public school grounds and school-sponsored activities except as authorized by the principal for a period not to exceed 10 days and remanded to the custody of his or her parents with specific homework assignments to be completed. Wow, this is tough stuff.
Forget about our state’s failing economy that is sagging so low that we may not be able to fund the state’s public education programs in the future. Forget that we may not be able to pay teachers and build schools to educate our children. Forget that without principals, teachers and public schools we will have no place and no one to enforce this new law. That would mean parents, heaven forbid, would have to teach their own children how to dress properly.
In case that happens . . . the underwear goes underneath the clothes being worn and the belt goes through the loops around the waistband of the pants or skirt with the buckle ending up in the front when you finish. If that does not work, use suspenders or duct tape. It is so sad to think we might have to enact a law for something people should have been taught before they entered our public school system. But, thank goodness, our government has the time to waste handling this for us.
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