Irishgirl how you doin?
308 students in a graduating class is a small school?
Then what’s a high school with a total population of 300?
Lemme see if I understand this-
Shirt unbuttoned to show bra=bad
Shirt unbuttoned to show areola=OK
Sounds like a dress code I could live with
thats a SMALL school?! up here in the arctic we have a graduating class of about… oh, I dunno… 50 AT MOST. theres maybe 500 kids in our school…
And we have absolutely no security shit. I know some kids that carry jacknives around with them. We’re allowed to wear hats whenever we want. I know some girls that have like, 5 piercings on thier faces ALONE.
I always thought rigid dress codes made little to no sense. It’s like the school administration is admitting they’ve already lost the discipline battle.
Back in the day, when I was in high school (Class of ‘86), I was on the school paper, and we ran a story in which we interviewed most of the higher-ups in the school administration about the dress code. (Ours was pretty lax by most of the standards mentioned above; basically, no jewelry with spikes sticking out, no hats not required by one’s religion, no canes unless medically required, shoes required at all times, and no genitalia showing. Tattoos and piercings weren’t an issue that I remember; our one punker dude had a pierced ear and created a major fuss when the Neanderthal who taught his gym class tried to make him remove it on safety grounds, but didn’t care about the girls’ earrings; the teacher threatened to rip the earring out of the kid’s ear and created quite a brouhaha.) On a related note, all medication was supposed to be stored in the nurse’s office, but that was almost universally ignored; the damn school was so big that you could miss half a class if you had to run down there every time you needed your medicine. Most kids behaved themselves, but the hat rule was always the one that created the most hassles.
The administration was so clueless about what the actual gang symbols were, it was painful. At the time, they included wearing certain color combinations and/or wearing one’s shirt collar turned up (not forbidden, BTW). I’m sure there were more, but being the geek that I was, I was pretty damn clueless myself. When my buddy interviewed the vice-principal and asked why hats were forbidden, he came up with all kinds of B.S. First, it was that they could block other students’ view of the blackboard. Then, it was that hatbands could be used to hide drugs. When my buddy pointed out that socks and underwear could also be used to hide drugs, and were they considering a ban on those? the guy changed the subject. Meanwhile, they missed out on all sorts of actual issues they could have addressed…a kid was shot to death during lunch hour, on the front lawn of the school, the year after I graduated, but apparently the administration thought the stupid hats were more important. Evanston, Illinois has a big stick up its collective butt;
I can’t tell you how many times my friends and I, the goddamn math team for chrissakes, were kicked out of the park for playing Hacky-Sack, the devil’s diversion, past 10 pm. Stupid cops couldn’t tell the difference between gangbangers and a bunch of tie-die-wearing, long-haired Mathletes playing Frisbee. The sad part is that we were in the park because there was nowhere else to hang out, and we were trying to be considerate and not hang out at someone’s house and keep their parents awake. Probably if we’d been up on the train tracks shooting heroin, nobody would have bothered us.
If some guy has diamonds under the eyes (::eyes dart around: he surely MUST get AC.
Oops, I’m sorry. I forgot to explain that. AC stands for “Alternative Center”. That’s where all the truelly hell raisers go. They get on this little bus that drives to the other side of town to this plain grey building and they mostly sit all day, no talking, you bring your own lunch and eat it at your desk, stuff like that. Every day you are gone you get a 0 on whatever was assigned to you, I hear. Or you do the assignments but no one is there to tell you what it is you’re doing, a teacher told me. Every kid that goes there goes there for 3 days (not hours, but whole school days) MINIMUM. There’s like, a law or something; you don’t go there for just one day, you go there for 3. If you talk/do something “bad” they add another day onto it. And some kids go there all year. In fact, on the 3 day of school we had an assembly on dress code ( :rolleyes: ) and one kid shouted “fuck the rules”, and he got sent there for the rest of the year.
You can also go there if you have enough tardies a semester. Get 10 (a lot easier than it seems at first, believe me. I’m hanging by a thread already, and the semester ends in December. They gave me a bad locker location and I’m still paying for it.)
Originally posted by Blackeyes
tiny half diamonds under the eyes (didn’t these bastards ever see Godspell?)
Be glad you didn’t, it’s a terrible movie. Anyways, in Godspell some of the characters had these small, not too noticeable diamond halves under their eyes. At the time I figured, sorrow, Godspell a musical, pride, etc. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Like a black ribbon or something, only cooler.
Originally posted by Blackeyes
…but the guy with the upbeat, positive deameanor, active charity volunteer, … who wants to show a small sign of mourning of a victim of hate crime gets hogasstied to the AP’s office for being “a rebel, a nuisance, a disturbance”.
Beats me. I don’t go around looking for trouble, just find myself in it all the time. I don’t a lot of it is because of the insane faculty, this is the same facet of evil that banned hugging in the hallways.
see my soon to be posted rant about them.
Blackeyes: Thanks for the info. I hope, though, that you’re misinformed about AC kids getting zeros, or no instruction on their assignments. If they have to be punished, they have to, but grades should not be torpedoed as part of a punishment.