<p>I've always wondered why we aren't allowed to wear hats in school. </p>
<p>Is it a religious matter? Like a sign of being disrespectful? In a public school, where there are many kinds of religions and ethnicities, is it right to impose a single one a such a diverse group?</p>
<p>What are your thoughts?</p>
<p>I think it’s because they can be used to display gain affiliation, or that they can be distracting, or that you can hide contraband and stuff in them.</p>
<p>I dunno, it’s a silly rule, but I don’t really care enough one way or the other to bother challenging/supporting it. :]</p>
<p>Im feel the same way that moodrets does. I don’t really care all that much. But at my school you can pay a dollar to wear a hat on Fridays…</p>
<p>Haha, my school does the same thing, only with jeans, lol.</p>
<p>On the rare occasion we can pay to wear a jersey instead of the normal collared shirt, too!</p>
<p>My school doesn’t allow it because we have a lot of gangs and most of the people used hats to identify themselves as to which gang they belong to. I don’t mind it at all because it lessens the inter-gang fights at my school. Only time I got annoyed was when they wouldn’t let me wear the bright blue berret (sp?) that my sister got me when she went to France. It’s not like a brightly colored berret would symbolize a gang, but whatever.</p>
<p>Berets are SO cute, lol I would wear them all the time, but our school says no hats as well. :[</p>
<p>I didn’t know that rule was still in effect. We stopped that after elementary schools around here. We don’t really have gangs around here, though.</p>
<p>My school is really old-fashioned, so that’s probably why they don’t allow hats. Back in the day, people weren’t supposed to wear hats in buildings.</p>
<p>Have there been any studies linking the banning of hat-wearing with any decline in gang violence?</p>
<p>In areas where there are absolutely no gang violence, or gangs at all, why do they still have the rule?</p>
<p>I think that it’s just a general rule regarding buildings. Some people take off their hats when entering a building as a sign of respect.</p>
<p>I think that this idea is really weird, why does the school care if you use hats, maybe they are distracing or something, but it is not the schools matter if you use hats. And contraband, well i dont think that people are going to hide things on their hats, but who knows. Maybe the school doesnt like them because you are not respecting the school uniform, and the hat is not part of the school uniform but i think that they dont really disturb anyone and that they should be permitted.</p>
<p>Some teachers don’t care. I’ll walk in with the craziest hat backwards like a total G and she could care less.</p>
<p>Of course the rule is ■■■■■■■■, but then that’s how many school rules are..</p>
<p>They think we’re gonna hide hand grenades and bottles of toxic chemicals under them.
C’mon, seriously…</p>
<p>i don’t really get why we can’t wear hats. my school is really rural and we definetly have no gangs. and my school is freezing so some people wear winter hats or earmuffs and they still make them take those off.</p>
<p>No. It’s a sign of respect, and hats can spread head lice. Also, if you’re sitting behind a tall guy/girl wearing a hat, it makes it harder to see past him/her.</p>