PULL THEM UP!!!!

I found this topic to be quite interesting since it deals with an everyday issue society is currently facing. The main controversy about this law is the fact that people are seeing it as a removal of their rights. It is true that people are responsible for themselves and for that matter should decide what to wear. However, when we examine the way this "trend" is affecting society we start to agree to a certain extent with the government. In my opinion, every person has the right to present themselves how they want to be seen, by choosing to follow this "fashion" they are putting themselves in a position where people might judge them and critize them for their style. They are carrying themselves in a way that can only affect them. If i see a person in the streets wearing their pants low and showing their underwear i simply chose to look the other way and that is what other people should do too. Only YOU are responsible for your appearance and the image you present of yourself. If you dont know or dont care to present yourself in a respectful way then that is a decision you are willing to make.
I believe the government has taken this issue a little too far, because even though i dont necessarily like this trend it is not in their position to prevent other people from expressing themselves through their clothes. If they feel they are comfortable and relate to this clothing style then no one has the right to tell them how to dress. I would agree with the government and the passing of this law if people was not only showing their underwear but more skin that could be indecent exposure. If maybe they were not wearing underwear and still carrying the pants low, then i would have to agree that even though it was their choice to dress that way it has gotten to a point were it can have a negative effect on other people. Everything has its limits. Not because it is "your right" you are going to be able to walk nude in the streets. However, when it comes to only carrying your pants low i believe the law should respect every individual's choice of clothing, their style, the way they are presenting themselves to the world.
Additionally i believe this is not a racial issue and that only african americans or the black community are being targeted. Since this trend is most since in african americans then they might see it as discrimination, racism, etc, but even in the video we could see that the person supporting the law was black and he was enforcing this law. He didnt care if the person wearing the saggy pants was white, hispanic, american or black. The style is consider inappropriate in all ages, races and ethnicities.

The Future Leaders of America...

I completely agree with the way that she feels, i think the governemnt has put up this requirements that are too high sometimes for students to reach. For example, making the Fact mandatory in third grade, i wouldn't want to imagine third graders on the day of the FCAT thinking about passing an exam or not been able to move on to the next grade. Last semester when we were discussing this same issue in ENC, i realized i wasnt the only one that felt the way i did about the FACT. I think the Fcat is an useless exam that doesn't really measure a thrid grader or a sophomore's intelligence. The fact is suppose to measure the student's proficiency in standarized exams. However, if you have ever taken an FCAT exam, you know that its a bunch of stories that require some level of critical thinking and been able to work out some math problems. In reality the exam doesnt really measure how smart you are, or how well you are doing in a certain subject, its a waste of time. Something that really bothered me in high school was the fact that teachers had to follow an fact type of schedule in classes. By that i mean we had to do fact prompts every month (even if you had pass the exam already). i am talking about a senior english class where we were suppose to be learning writing skills for college we were writing 5 paragraph format essays to FCAT questions. The teacher also had to learn how to incorporate fact teaching skills or somthing like that they called it to the class, it didnt matter if it was english, spanish or math. The time that we actually had to study something educational and useful for the future was the last 30 minutes of class. Moreover in senior year when you need to do SATs, ACTs and study to get good final exam grades, I had to sit in a classroom and hear a lecture about the FACT style of writing, the new FACT exam (science) and the ones to come like FACT history. I can only imagine how a third grader feels hearing about the Fact. At least we were old enough to accept and get used to the idea, but its sad to see how they (third graders) are going to grow up with no creativity, a closed perception of what an english class is and of course terrified about 10th grade, when to FCAT has to be taken again.