Take Note: Baggy ban; Readers respond

Buckle up; it's the law.

At least it is for students at Chardon Middle School in Chardon, Ohio, who want to wear baggy pants. School officials have barred their 700 students from wearing baggy, loose-fitting pants to school, saying the low-slung style is a safety hazard and a disruption.

"We've had a couple of kids 'de-pantsed' in the hallways, which seemed funny to them but a disruption to us," said Hugh Terrell, an assistant principal at Chardon. "One kid stepped on his pants leg and hit his head...