Skinny Jeans

As the year has progressed, the jeans in my classroom on my tween girls have gotten tighter and tighter, and less and less appropriate. They can't sit on the rug because their booties hang out, and their shirts are to short to cover potentially exposed arenas.


So today, I busted out some blunt one on one convos about the appropriateness of 5th grade clothing with a handful of my students. The conversations went something like this:

So, I've become really worried about the way some of you girls are dressing in school. Skinny jeans are not appropriate clothing for a 5th grader, especially in school. You are all starting to grow up and it's not appropriate or safe to attract attention to yourself by dressing the way you do. You can't even sit on the rug because your jeans hang so low! I'm hoping you decide to stop dressing like this outside of school too, but whenever you're anywhere around me, I want you dressing differently from now on. And yes, that means I'll call you out if I run into you dressed like this on the weekends. And yes, I'll continue to call you out for dressing like this until you're 18.

Each girl flashed me a variation of incredulous looks at the start of the convo, But, as my speech progressed, they slowly reverted back to their innocent, child-like selves, nodded their embarrassed heads in understanding, and vowed to the end of skinny jeans in my classroom.

Good riddance.