School Makes Girls Wear Trash Bag Skirts

NW Cable News ^ | 09/19/03 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two Bronx girls reportedly had to wear skirts made of trash bags to class as a punishment for coming to school in jeans rather than their uniforms.

The sixth-graders at the Bronx Preparatory Charter School were made to wear the bags by principal Marina Bernard Damiba, the Daily News reported Friday.

Damiba called the garbage-bag skirts "Damiba fashions" and said they weren't meant to be humiliating.

"It was more of a fun way to say, 'Listen, guys, wear the uniforms,'" she told the News. "Let's not dwell on something as simple as wearing the uniforms when we have a lot of business to take care of. We have a lot of learning to get done."

Joy Vasquez, whose daughter, 12-year-old Christina Zuniga, was one of the girls who wore the skirts, at first said the punishment was "really wrong," the News said.

But after meeting with Damiba, she told the News that her daughter "got a lesson out of it."

Students at the school are required to wear a polo shirt with the school's logo and khaki, black, gray or navy blue pants or skirts that are at least knee-length.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[Normal4me]

I believe it would be the tin-foil underware that would be uncomfortable though.

[TheBigB]

Mom: "Son, will you take out the trash?"

Boy: "I guess so, if she's pretty and has a nice personality."

[martin_fierro]

Sheesh, what's the big deal?

I wear plastic pants.

[Pest]

Let's not dwell on something as simple as wearing the uniforms when we have a lot of business to take care of.

Apparently they don't care about grammar at this school.

[steplock]

Sounds like a good lesson -

Follow the Rules!

[b9]

:::gasp::::
A school that actually enforces a dress code? That doesn't allow 4-inches-below-the-naval jeans?
LOL a 'fitting' punishment--> trash bags! :o)

[Sloth]

There's no rule prohibiting you from ending a sentence with a preposition.

[b9]

ROFLM(trash bags)O

(((((so perfect)))))

[Sloth]

If it was me, I'd wear trash bags every day.

[kitkat]

***Apparently they don't care about grammar at this school.***

According to Winston Churchill, it's okay to end a sentence with a preposition. In fact, when he was criticized for doing so, he said: "This is the sort of errant pedantry up with which I shall not put."

[bedolido]

growing up in the 50's and 60's it was common for schools to use humiliation to keep kids in line. I had to wear a ribbon in my hair all day in the 5th grade cause I teased some girls (as I look back on it, it wouldn't been so bad if it was my color. I'm an Autumn).

[martin_fierro]

There's no rule prohibiting you from ending a sentence with a preposition.

At least none that you're aware ... of. <|:)~

[Sacajaweau]

Six of us 16 year old Catholic school girls had to wear hairnets for having "messy hair". Would have loved to see the hair of these nuns, hidden under their habits. These nuns were insane. I have naturally curly hair...real tough to work with and it was the late 50's. The other girls had long, straight hair so I couldn't even rationalize the messy thing...Their hair just hung there.

[Rebelbase]

A Sloth family portrait

[kitkat]

You mean that back in the 50s and 60s they hurt kids' (GASP) "feelings."

[Pest]

Ok, Ok. I don't know where I picked that up. See below. :)

Another brilyant mynd distroid by the publik edukashun sistim.

May I end a sentence with a preposition?

Contrary to popular opinion, no rule states that it is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. A principle of style, however, declares that one should not end a sentence with a preposition when one has a graceful alternative. As Theodore M. Bernstein says in The Careful Writer (Atheneum: 1968), "It is well to consider that a sentence ending with a preposition is sometimes clumsy, often weak." But Bernstein adds that "a preposition can itself provide strength at the end of a sentence." "This occurs," he says, "when the preposition carries real import and the verb has a rather low charge; in such instances heavy stress . . . falls on the preposition, and idiom declares that it appear at the end."

Bernstein's examples prove the point. How else are we to say, "He didn't know what he was getting into," "I found this tool, but I don't know what it is used for," or "I didn't know what it was all about"? Consider, he says, Shakespeare's "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" and such expressions as: "That is something to guard against," "He is someone you can count on," and "You don't know what I have been through." Bernstein wryly suggests that anyone who calls such expressions wrong will find that he or she "hasn't a leg on which to stand."

[bedolido]

There's no rule prohibiting you from ending a sentence with a preposition

I'm just happy is I can get my point out (at my age I have to use viagra-english to get my point out).

[b9]

>>>wouldn't have been so bad if it was my color. I'm an autumn<<<
It's too early here LOL You're giving me a sideache! :o)

Well, maybe they were colored trash bags...or maybe white trash?

[Wolfie]

I'm wondering what would be more disruptive to the "learning atmosphere", jeans or Hefty's?