{"id":319629,"date":"2011-03-18T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/bill-passes-prohibiting-sagging-pants-in-florida-schools\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:06:48","slug":"bill-passes-prohibiting-sagging-pants-in-florida-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/bill-passes-prohibiting-sagging-pants-in-florida-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Passes Prohibiting Sagging Pants in Florida Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboombox.com\/2011\/03\/17\/bill-passes-prohibiting-sagging-pants-in-florida-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nTheboombox<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n Sagging pants will soon be a thing of the past&#8211; at least in Florida. According to new bill passed by the state&#8217;s House of Representatives K-20 Education Innovation Subcommittee on Wednesday (March 16), students are no longer allowed to wear their pants too low and &#8220;exposes the underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticism from a local chapter of the NACCP, which alleges that it is targeted at black youth, the bill never actually uses the term &#8220;sagging.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It also received unanimous support in the House, taking aim at the style of dress, displayed by many youth and adults. The bill theorizes that the fad was born in the prison system, where belts were not issued in an attempt to prevent inmate suicides.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_871-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201103\/145633.php\" title=\"Bill Passes Prohibiting Sagging Pants in Florida Schools\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Passes Prohibiting Sagging Pants in Florida Schools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Theboombox : \u00a0\u00a0 Sagging pants will soon be a thing of the past&#8211; at least in Florida. According to new bill passed by the state&#8217;s House of Representatives K-20 Education Innovation Subcommittee on Wednesday (March 16), students are no longer allowed to wear their pants too low and &#8220;exposes the underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner.&#8221; Despite criticism from a local chapter of the NACCP, which alleges that it is targeted at black youth, the bill never actually uses the term &#8220;sagging.&#8221; It also received unanimous support in the House, taking aim at the style of dress, displayed by many youth and adults. The bill theorizes that the fad was born in the prison system, where belts were not issued in an attempt to prevent inmate suicides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bill Passes Prohibiting Sagging Pants in Florida Schools - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/bill-passes-prohibiting-sagging-pants-in-florida-schools\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bill Passes Prohibiting Sagging Pants in Florida Schools - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Theboombox : \u00a0\u00a0 Sagging pants will soon be a thing of the past-- at least in Florida. 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