Sagging Pants Debated Around UHS and USA

Sagging pants are everywhere, not just the halls of Urbana High School. According to a New York Times article, people are going to jail and getting fines for sagging. The fines could get up to $500 and six months in jail.
Back in the 1970’s men who wore long hair would get harassed for it. They never went to jail or got fines for it. Some state officials see sagging as a worse and more harmful trend. The Mayor of Delcambre, Los Angeles had long hair back in his days as following the trend and didn’t see anything wrong with that trend. However, he speaks out against sagging.
Senior P.J Blissit said, “I really don’t think anything is wrong with sagging but old people think that because their clothes were really small.”
One thing Blissit does point out is a difference in the generations.
Teacher Erin Ludwick said, “I do not think it is right to profile someone based on clothing, but it happens and it is important students understand that. I’m thinking about job interviews.”
Ludwick is right because I didn’t get many jobs based on the way I look and dress.
Junior Robert Brown said, “Bro it ain’t nothing wrong with sagging at all. Although it did come from jail we take it and look at it in a much different way. It’s just like how Snapbacks are back, we just sagging our pants.”
Brown’s answer was really good because sagging pants is a choice and not a statement to be judged by.
In the hallways of UHS students are always asked to pull their pants up, even if they have shorts underneath their pants. People don’t want to see people sagging their pants because some think it makes them look bad. Yet, the person sagging their pants obviously doesn’t care how they look- it’s all about what their opinion is of themselves.

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