<p>My dad used to work the night shifts when I was in elementary school. It was his second job but my mom went to work way before my school started. I’d wake him up, he’d drive me in his sweats/whatever he was sleeping in, and then go home and go back to sleep. </p>
<p>If people thought something negative about it, I’d dare them to say it to my face. My dad worked 18+ hour days for years and then woke up out of a sleep to drive me 20ish minutes to school and back (we had no buses). This was a private school so I’m sure the picture perfect SAHMs clucked away at him but they had the decency never to say anything or try to change him. </p>
<p>This thread reminded me of a Saturday Evening Post cover from back when I was a kid (waaay back). I think it was a Norman Rockwell illustration. A woman in bathrobe and curlers who had apparently just dropped her husband off at the train station is leaning out of the car door to see a flat tire. There’s nothing new under the sun…</p>
<p>Ah, just found it. Not Rockwell, Amos Sewell, 1960:</p>
<p>Actingmt…my kid was a “disadvantaged” kid. So you can drive your kid to school but I can’t, cuz my kid needs every advantage??? And what is dressing like a convict? Really?</p>
<p>Hate this edit thing. Meant to say is it okay for you to drive your kid to school in pjs or sweats but its not ok for me cuz I am disadvantaged?</p>
<p>No, but I don’t think it would come up at a school where the district didn’t feel the need to offer up a message that the kids are not getting at home. Personally, I don’t see a problem with sweats. But, she did mention that they were sagging in the butt and basically falling off so, that’s not good. </p>
<p>Dressing like a convict is wearing pants 5 sizes too big with no belt. </p>
<p>And, yes., there is some misunderstanding going on, as usual.</p>
<p>See, I think there’s a big difference between someone wearing sweats down past their rear ends, and someone wearing sweats who is on the way to the gym. One pair could be hole-y, dirty, sagging and falling off, and another pair could be appropriate for working out in (meaning the fit appropriately so that they won’t fall off during a work out). I think the many different opinions we’re reading here are based on how someone is defining what ‘sweats’ means. Some are appropriate and some are not. </p>
<p>Regardless, I typically did not bother to look into the cars of other parents dropping off their kids at high school, so I have no clue what they were wearing. I was usually more concerned with moving through the line of traffic leading into the parking lot and finding the best place to drop off my kid than I was with what other parents were wearing. So if they were wearing PJs (and if I saw it), so what?</p>
<p>I guess going back to the original article linked, I’m wondering (as someone else did earlier in the thread), what parents dropping off their high school kids were doing getting out of the car? There was absolutely no need for that at our high school (or elementary school or middle school for that matter).</p>
<p>At our h.s., it is common for parents of new drivers to let their kids drive to school for the practice, then at drop-off they get out and walk around to the drivers position. Maybe that is what was happening.</p>
<p>Adding, I personally do not think it is ever appropriate to intentionally wear your pants in such a way as to show your underwear. I think that is what this woman was objecting to.</p>
<p>“At our h.s., it is common for parents of new drivers to let their kids drive to school for the practice, then at drop-off they get out and walk around to the drivers position. Maybe that is what was happening.”</p>
<p>I had to do the walk around. I still didn’t care that I was wearing jams. I also sometimes walk my little dog in them very early in the morning. </p>
<p>If you read down in her vitae her goals and motto are to teach others to be successful by optimizing opportunities…(too much work to quote on my device) and creating opportunities for kids to grow.</p>
<p>We all only know what has worked for us. She is successful. She found dress an important part of her success. She is bringing her formula for success to others.</p>
<p>She knows she can’t force it. She said that.</p>
<p>She needs to better organize her plan. Has she spoken to the parents about this? Has she shared the problems in and out of the classroom these children are facing to the parents? I’ve already thought of three efficient ways to get her “true” point across that has a better outcome than parents nation (and world) wide going into a tizzy from her dress code. </p>
<p>She is going to get a lot of push back simply by virtue of this being a public school. Some public school people go there specifically because they don’t want “the man” telling them what to do, as much as possible.</p>
<p>uh oh…looks like i’ll have to stop wearing my bedroom slippers when I drive my kids…i’ve often cringe to think of what would happen if I had a minor fender-bender and had to get out the car…LOL </p>
<p>I get it too–
The lady lives in an alternate universe. She is creating a “media event” for her own publicity. She thinks that it’s okay to even bring forward “rules” and “proposals” that will never and can never be enforced because there is no basis for them. I didn’t see a list of wonderful solutions to her so-called problems. What she really wanted is media attention and now she got it. She got her name in the newspaper–good for her.</p>
<p>She’s a doctor of something or other–do some research and explain to kids why first impressions matter. Teach the ones in front of you.</p>
<p>I think the board member didn’t especially mean parents dressed poorly when they drop them off in the morning. She says this:
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<p>I understand her frustration but all she’s going to do is tick off both the parents that think they are being accused unjustly and the ones that fit the description and think it’s none of the SB’s business. </p>
<p>Count me in as another jammie mom. I would just drop and drive away though. And not every day, and many times I’d put a long coat on over them. I’m amazed in general at what people will wear in public, many moms look like they just got off a double shift at the Mustang Ranch at sporting events. Even teachers can be a bit sketchy. But then again the school my kids attended had a big scandal with the moms having affairs with the new graduates. </p>