Senator Gary Siplin of Florida greeted returning high school students this week by personally handing out leather belts. It was a reminder that the law he got passed last spring, which requires that schools adopt dress codes that ban baggy, saggy, and underwear-showing pants, was now in full effect.
"We want our kids to believe they're going to college, and part of that is an attitude, and part of that is being dressed professionally," Siplin, who is black and admits to wearing an afro and platform shoes in his youth, told Reuters. "I'm not going to hire anyone, white or black, with saggy pants," he said. "I want to make sure
