When I was working as a school psych I used to see boys in school walking around with their pants below their butts so that their boxers were showing. I asked several principals if they could tell the kids to pull their pants up. Their replies were that they could do nothing because it wasn't disruptive to learning. They had no answer when I asked wasn't it disruptive to common decency. There was one kid with whom I had a good relationship who I kept threatening to buy him a belt that fit. A few years later when he was in high school, he told me "l finally smartened up because all the kids who did that were the losers and I don't want to be one of them."
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