School Makes Girls Wear Trash Bag Skirts

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

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

*Smack*

Sorry about the duplicate post; computer hicups.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Or as the kid who didn't like his parent's choice of bedtime reading said: "What did you bring that thing I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"

[bedolido]

*Smack*
Sorry about the duplicate post; computer hicups.

Yeah I understand. I've had problems with pre-mature E-post-ulation for years. Even thinking about NFL football doesn't help.

[Sacajaweau]

Sounds like the right approach. My kids wore uniforms, too. What a blessing for the whole family. One less thing to dicker over.

[radiohead]

I went to a very strict prep school in DC. If you arrived w/o some part of your uniform, there were extra uniform skirts and blouses for you to put on.

Also, if you wore pants under your skirt in the winter because it was cold, you had to stand outside the school and take them off before entering. We had to kneel down and make sure our skirts touched the floor. For those whose skirts were too short (this was in the late 60s when everyone was wearing miniskirts), you got a whack on the rear w/a yardstick and a note to your mom to let down the hem of your skirt.

Complain about trash bags? wimps...

Seriously - either have extra uniforms, send the kids back home to change, or keep them in detention all day if you are sending a message that uniforms must be worn. Some people don't like to hear it, but there are rules and there are consequences for breaking them.

[Larry Lucido]

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.

Of course, we all know the correct phrase is "a lot of business to attend to."

[radiohead]

I like your response. It wouldn't have helped me w/my mother, tho. When, as a young skull full of mush, I sometimes ended a sentence w/a preposition, my mother (the school teacher) would just look at me and refuse to answer until I had realized my crime and restructured my sentence.

gee, memories...sniff...

[Larry Lucido]

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I am fed!

This is the sort of impertinence up with which I will not put.

-- Winston Churchill

[radiohead]

Still had to wear the dreaded beanies in church though

Oh my! After being traumatized over everything else in 12 years of Catholic education, I had completely forgotten about the beanies!

I wore some version of blue for 12 years. Other than a navy suit when I first started working, I have only just begun wearing blue again. I think a lot of us could use some therapy. : )

[general_re]

...my mother (the school teacher)...

You know what they say - ya can't fight City Hall. Personally, I could never persuade my mother that it was okay to say "Susie is going to the movies with Jenny and me" - I think some nun beat "Jenny and I" into her during her Catholic school days. Or maybe she just objected to me going to the movies with Susie and Jenny ;)

[King Prout]

thanks for posting that - I'm adding it to my about page.
Reminds me of a joke I cannot repeat here - the final and very necessary word of the punchline is vulgar.