One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor.
While walking through senior hall, I read this clever jingle on the back of a shirt. Then I started to think about what those kinds of shirts do to our school's image in the eyes of students, faculty or anyone who ventures to visit our fair halls. Some may think that wearing beer shirts is just another form of harmless personal expression, but they are wrong.
While experimenting with the challenging world of bare midriff shirts, I have noticed that the administration can't seem to tolerate the slightest reminder that stomachs actually exist. They seem to have a fear of the blatantly obvious. Why, I ask, don't these self-appointed fashion police notice the Budweiser logo that my neighbor is sporting on his shirt? Simply, the enforcers of school policy are ignoring beer shirts.
Beer shirts are not appropriate for school, yet I continually see girls who wear tank tops and midriffs picked on, sent home and made to cover up.
The student handbook finds it easy to define sweats, tank tops, and cut-offs as inappropriate, but nowhere in the book does it say anything about beer shirts or midriffs. If both of these items of clothing are in fact inappropriate for school, then rules against both need to be written and enforced with the same enthusiasm.
A change needs to be made in the school handbook. Beer, and other shirts advertising other illegal substances, need to be defined as inappropriate. If that is not done then administrators need to get off the backs of girls who show their belly buttons.
People who wear beer shirts represent more than just themselves. Many belong to sports teams and some are in student government or other leadership roles around the school. Everyone is looked up to by someone.
Right now the administration is sending the message that it is alright to advertise illegal substances at school. I don't think that's the kind of message the administrators want to send.