Just got back from the middle school open house. It ticked me off from the start because we were invited with a note at registration to 'come and put school supplies away and meet new teachers.' I did not meet the new teachers. Instead, my kid's name was called with others and she was taken to her new homeroom separately. The parents stayed in the lunch room and we were told they had some things to talk with us about concerning 'raising middle schoolers.' Umm, why? School councilor took the floor with an mic (I don't know why) and said, middle schoolers are self conscious. Umm, gee, I had no idea. WTF? Then she told us some dumb stuff, mostly for new people. We all know where the fucking office is. Bla. Bla.
THEN, she got to dress codes. Girls can't wear spaghetti straps and shorts must be as long as your hand (hanging down). Fine. Then she lets this slip..leggings must be worn with shirts that cover butts because 'we don't want our boys to be distracted from study'. Oh, yes, she did! Ohhhhh. Ohhh.
Boys cant wear T shirts about booze or ciggys. That's it. Oh, doesn't this leave open some possibilities? Please come up with some questionable shirts I can have made for the kid. Thanks. Then, go make some cocksucker a sandwich, I guess.
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Leggings were a huge problem in our small town last year. Made the news. They were just 'enforcing' the dress code policy. I heard the staff in the office had a motto, " say no to camel toe".
No leggings unless you had a skirt, dress, or tunic-length shirt on. No shorts unless they are past your fingertips. No tanktops at all, which means your outermost shirt had to have the sleeve. No three finger minimum here.
Boys aren't allowed to have sagging pants or profanity.
And of course no hats, masks, chains on clothing, etc.
We might as well just have uniforms if were going to get that advanced with the darn dress codes.
And while we are talking about what not to wear: I live in the south, so you know, the Bible belt. This was back a while, during high school. A friend of a friend had on her pentacle. Small not flashy. Two very religous girls happened to see it and went to the office about it. Said girl got in trouble and had to take it off. She wasn't bothering them or preaching to anybody about her beliefs, so I thought it was a bit messed up. I may not have super duper best buddies with her, and not agreeing with her lifestyle (other than her beliefs, some aspects I like the idea of, there were some other things I didn't agree with), but I'm not going to sit there and embarrass the poor thing like that.
And sorry for such a long-winded post. I normally don't write so much, but I had to share that story with you. I had forgotten about for a while, and this in a way reminded me.
Let's appoint Mike Huckabee official overseer of school dress codes and fix this motherfucker for good.
Say no to camel toe is gross but funny. Saying girls are responsible for boys sexual thoughts about their butts and distracting them from studies is a punchable in the face faux pas.
When I was on college, I worked for the Texas State Senate. We were not allowed to wear pants. We had to wear skirts with panty hose at all times. But the skirts couldn't be too short because "we need to keep the senators minds on their work". Ridiculous. Then why couldn't we just wear pants?!?!
Exactly Erin, why not pants? You can't tell me Hillary Clinton is sexy in her pantsuits, and she has hundreds of them.
Maybe Guntown doesn't have some of the problems we've had with inappropriate or dangerous dressing. Some years ago many public schools went to uniforms or navy pants or skirts and certain white shirts/blouses and called it a day. Made it easier. Too many gangbangers and their ho's. Or khaki with waist near the knee and undershorts in the correct place. The short time I taught middle school I had girls come in with shorts that almost weren't there and strapless tops. I figured they got undressed in a bathroom on the way to school. Surely their parents didn't know. But then the moms would come pick them up for dental appt or whatnot and oh yeah, they knew. And then kids would get shot for wearing the wrong color according to the local gang, who was getting pissed that other gangs were showing up on "their" territory. A pox on the whole thing. I don't know what they are doing now and glad I don't have to care.
We have a "no frayed jeans" rule around here. My grandaughter called me one day a couple of years ago and asked me to go all the way to her house (Way out of my way to get to her school) to pick up a different pair of jeans. Instead, I went to the school office, asked to see her, and stuck duct tape on the two 1/2 inch frays that seemed to be bothering them so damn much.
They never picked on her again.. Hard telling what I might have come up with for a short skirt.
It really does seem easier to tell them what TO wear rather than what NOT to wear. Not so many battles back and forth. But the way they dress around here improved dramatically and fights decreased to almost nothing once the standard what you DO war policies went in.
But, no one seems to get why I was so fucking mad. Boys are not animals. If a girl wears legging, real legging, butt shape showing, how the fuck is she responsible for a boy's distraction. They aren't raping beasts, just kids. I said nothing because actually girls are more interested in boys at this age then the reverse. However, it gets cold her. My kid will be wearing leggings at times. Under short dresses, etc. She walks to school and she won't be freezing her ass off. Fuck them. ZI LOVE my leggings, I make sure they are REAL leggings, not tights. I look okay in them, much better than mom pants. AND I feel comfy in them. I won't deliberately try to piss them off, but, they are ridic and girls need heavy leggings, even under jeans when the goddamn weather is -30. I can also, and probably will. cause some stink about school library content this year. I have been quiet too long. Pagans and witches and druids and muslims and jews are NOT evil. Keep your mother fucking bible stories out of my school library unless you offer more. I am really pissed at the bible belt nonsense and since I have custody now and I'm legal, I refuse to bow down. Cocksuckers. Not all of them, but, the majority. They have pushed me as far as they are going to. I need a lawyer on retainer. There's way more. I won't bore you. Oh, but, NO one is going to harass Lis again for professing to be an atheist when asked. It's not like she preaches it. She's asked! And my parking spot is MINE if I get there first, no savsies. Kiss my ass with your jacket the says Firefighters Do It Hot. How is that less offensive than a vintage Jack Daniels shirt? These mother fuckers have pushed me as far as I'm going to let them. Our school is ran by the Christian zealots. Square, uninformed, ignorant, racist, bigoted, misogonist, pukes. Mostly parents and PTA members. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, you Christian Christmas color book whores and happy Christian holiday vacations. GOD, I hate them and the shit way they treat me when I have kept my mouth shut for 7 long years. Christian stuff? Fine, but, NOT at the exclusion of every other religion or atheists. We pledge allegiance to the flag, one nation, under some make believe invisible man. SHUT UP. How would they like the tables turned?
Small things? When your kid gets attacked when asked about church and replies respectfully that she doesn't believe. No. Me, asking to bow my head before a ridiculous and probably illegal lecture on the proper way to raise middle school kids? WHAT? 3 little witches book and all Harry Potters removed from the school library but, stories of Jesus in 6 copies????? Get the fuck out of here. Mimiographed color sheets of jesus and his lambs sent home in backpacks? DOH. Being told pentagrams are against the rule, but, crosses aren't? Oh, and endless church pamplets sent home. Give your child the gift of jesus and eternal salvation. No.
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