GOD HATES FADS

[Jenn]

After the Christian school of my youth had banned various fads: parachute pants, extra ear piercings, suspenders hanging over your butt... they added a general school rule: No Fads.

Then I spent time at BJU and they were also keeping up with the trend-banning. Things that at one time were not banned because nobody was doing them, now must be added to the rulebook. No wearing Birkenstocks to class. No super short hair on girls. No shelf haircuts on guys.

Whatever it is, not doing it is one way to distinguish ones self from the world and maintain a God-glorifying testimony.

[co_heir]

I wonder what they would do if the fad was guys wearing coats and ties with fundy style hair, and girls wearing dresses that came below the knee.

[Recovering]

(02-17-2012 04:11 PM)Jenn Wrote:  After the Christian school of my youth had banned various fads: parachute pants, extra ear piercings, suspenders hanging over your butt... they added a general school rule: No Fads.

Then I spent time at BJU and they were also keeping up with the trend-banning. Things that at one time were not banned because nobody was doing them, now must be added to the rulebook. No wearing Birkenstocks to class. No super short hair on girls. No shelf haircuts on guys.

Whatever it is, not doing it is one way to distinguish ones self from the world and maintain a God-glorifying testimony.

Yeah, I used to wonder what godly women would were if culottes ever came into fashion.

[pastor's wife]

Fads are automatically considered worldly. If you want to be fashionable or trendy, you're considered unspiritual.

My 13 year old daughter likes fashion and was told that she was worldly by a home-schooled "friend." Not immodest. Not sensual. Just worldly because she enjoyed dressing trendy. >

(I think I already mentioned this on SFL before, but thought it bore mentioning again, mostly because I'm still ticked off about it.)

When I was a student (many, many years ago) we always made fun of the rules that had been written to counter trends of 10 years ago. Now as an adult, I can see that 10 years ago felt like only yesterday, but when you're 15, 10 years ago you were in kindergarten which seems like forever ago! I remember as a teenager in the 80s laughing at rules that forbade long sideburns and bell-bottom pants, as if any of us would EVER be caught dead wearing those!!!

[amyrose5]

This was one of the reasons, I think, for weekly faculty meetings at the Christian school I taught at. Every other school I've ever been involved in has them monthly, not weekly. But one huge topic of every meeting at Christian school was to examine whatever the kids might be liking at the moment and determine if it must be banned. This applied to anything teenagers might momentarily like...television shows, movies, certain clothing brands, words, toys or gadgets, even a certain candy. Anything. And usually, it had to be banned even if banning merely meant not allowing them to talk about it. After all, if a lot of them enjoyed something, it must be suspect, right?

[Presbygirl]

(02-18-2012 12:07 AM)pastors wife Wrote:  Fads are automatically considered worldly. If you want to be fashionable or trendy, you're considered unspiritual.

My 13 year old daughter likes fashion and was told that she was worldly by a home-schooled "friend." Not immodest. Not sensual. Just worldly because she enjoyed dressing trendy. >

(I think I already mentioned this on SFL before, but thought it bore mentioning again, mostly because I'm still ticked off about it.)

When I was a student (many, many years ago) we always made fun of the rules that had been written to counter trends of 10 years ago. Now as an adult, I can see that 10 years ago felt like only yesterday, but when you're 15, 10 years ago you were in kindergarten which seems like forever ago! I remember as a teenager in the 80s laughing at rules that forbade long sideburns and bell-bottom pants, as if any of us would EVER be caught dead wearing those!!!

In the end, those kind of statements are just saying that God can only use people in certain "acceptable fields" of work and service. You couldn't EVER find God in the fashion industry. [sarcasm] These statements are so dumb and thoughtless, and critical and judgemental.

My middle girl, who is nine! LOVES fashion, design, and all things related. I plan on encouraging her God given bent toward art and the possible uses for her natural creativity!!

[laurat99]

I thought this thread was a take-off on all those Westboro nuts.

Schools hate fads. My son's school banned Silly Bandz because they were becoming a distraction, even at recess.

[amyrose5]

(02-18-2012 12:07 PM)laurat99 Wrote:  I thought this thread was a take-off on all those Westboro nuts.

Schools hate fads. My son's school banned Silly Bandz because they were becoming a distraction, even at recess.

Distractions are distractions and banning them is one thing. When the Christian school banned virtual pets (remember those things?), I was fine with it. It's hard to teach when kids are busy feeding their virtual pets.

But this always had to go a step further than that...all the ninth grade girls are obsessed with the movie Titanic? It must be a problem. We shall ban them from speaking of it in any way, shape or form and police their conversations at lunch and in the hallway to punish them if they do.....Utterly absurd and very controlling. It becomes rather prison like when things are taken to that extreme.

[boymom]

Any school that bans parachute pants can't be all bad.

[Mommy2Kids]

(02-18-2012 12:14 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:  

(02-18-2012 12:07 PM)laurat99 Wrote:  I thought this thread was a take-off on all those Westboro nuts.

Schools hate fads. My son's school banned Silly Bandz because they were becoming a distraction, even at recess.

Distractions are distractions and banning them is one thing. When the Christian school banned virtual pets (remember those things?), I was fine with it. It's hard to teach when kids are busy feeding their virtual pets.

But this always had to go a step further than that...all the ninth grade girls are obsessed with the movie Titanic? It must be a problem. We shall ban them from speaking of it in any way, shape or form and police their conversations at lunch and in the hallway to punish them if they do.....Utterly absurd and very controlling. It becomes rather prison like when things are taken to that extreme.

I wouldn't want my 9th grade girl to watch Titanic. So I guess I'd be irritated if other girls were telling her about it in a way that glorified it.