Dressing for distress - or is it privilege power move?

Golfgr8
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:33:54 +0000

Thanks @buuzn03 ! It was raining and windy yesterday at school - but still above zero so we saw boys in flip flops. For Parents Day (as I originally mentioned) I have now learned that the boys tended to be more casual than the girls. I was told that the girls dressed up more (wore dresses or skirts) that day than they typically wear to school.

On your final note, I agree with you on the difference benchmarks for genders @ dress code. Our last school and current school have adopted more strict policies on attire because of what you described. This topic was addressed at our last school and the current one because of short hem length and spaghetti straps . Down in the tropics for the past several years this was also a weather issue - girls complained it was too hot to wear the khaki skirt or plaid skirt to class. Girls felt it unfair that boys could wear khaki shorts to class, but they would get a DC violation if they wore same khaki shorts! So I think schools should look at gender neutral dress codes…(cue the attacks for saying that). At the current school, we know girls who have been told to go change their footwear because they wore flip flops to class or to lunch - even though the boys get away with it.

The weather thing works both ways. I was on a welcoming committee a few years ago for faculty candidates from a couple of New England boarding schools. They were amused that our dress code allowed for the students to wear boots when the temp dipped below 60 degrees

I some ER’s there is something called the “teeth to tattoo ratio”. But that could be just a “Southernism” that will, no doubt, rile up people on CC with another ratio - “self righteous to humor ratio”. Please do not take this too seriously and as my esteemed “Better Parents” above would say “chill”.

DH has one for a male equivalent to tattoos on old men - but will wait to see if anyone else comes up with it :bz :))