Jules
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No one ever gave us a reason, that I can recall.Just out of curiosity did anyone ever try to rationalize that to you and if so did they convince you? Did you and your friends have any theories about why that was the rule?
No one ever gave us a reason, that I can recall.Just out of curiosity did anyone ever try to rationalize that to you and if so did they convince you? Did you and your friends have any theories about why that was the rule?
Ok, colour me jealous.Remember trudging though the snow on the way to high school, never enough clothes for the temp,
WAIT a minute! Wrong life.
A video of my high school class in Hawaii.
Air temp 72, water temp 72; it's ok to feel sorry for me...
lol..kids in our school were never this grown up..,Remember trudging though the snow on the way to high school, never enough clothes for the temp,
WAIT a minute! Wrong life.
A video of my high school class in Hawaii.
Air temp 72, water temp 72; it's ok to feel sorry for me...
are you in this Llynn
well you looked like a happy little guy anywayYes, second row over from the teacher. I'm clear in the back almost in the coat alcove. I wonder what I did to her to make her put me back there.
this was our winters when I was a little girl at school.. we weren't allowed ever to wear trousers... I'd walk to school on my own or with my smaller brother..2 miles. I can't tell you how many times I slipped and stumbled on the way.. and the schools didn't close.They allowed girls to wear pants to school during the winter of 1970. It was more convenient. I must admit that. It's cold here so it's just practical.
Only private and Catholic school pupils wear uniforms here, Hols. I was never able to wear the latest fashions as a teen .. but, for some reason, it never bothered me. It must be worse for kids now though.Supernatural. Where in Canada did you grow up ?
My aunts and cousins were in Toronto..still are... and I remember my aunts bemoaning the fat that their children couldn't wear school uniform as we did in the UK.. saying that there was much one one-upmanship between the kids at school in the choice of fashion clothes and the children expected their parents to provide for school, and how expensive it all was
Same here Pinky. Strict dress rules in St. Patrick's School. Our hems had to touch the floor when we knelt down for prayers. Had to wear a tie both Summer and Winter. We never had fans in the classrooms or heaters either. No wonder the Nuns were so cranky with all that garb they had to wear.Only private and Catholic school pupils wear uniforms here, Hols. I was never able to wear the latest fashions as a teen .. but, for some reason, it never bothered me. It must be worse for kids now though.
In our schools we had to wear uniform with ties all year round. A few years later they allowed girls to wear summer dresses but in the school colours ..which mean blue and white..Only private and Catholic school pupils wear uniforms here, Hols. I was never able to wear the latest fashions as a teen .. but, for some reason, it never bothered me. It must be worse for kids now though.
there was no school buses where I lived.. no such thing... if we wanted to get a bus to school, we got a regular bus, but our parents never would give us the fare even when it was raining, so we;d jump on a bus in bad weather if we could , and just as the conductor came for the fare we'd jump off again, and hopefully we'd have got very close to school.. . Most kids walked to school like us, very few parents drove their kids to schoolIn California, recall always carrying books in my arms around high school as daypacks had not yet risen. Half my K12 years I either walked or rode a bicycle to school. Otherwise, it was yellow school buses where one would civilly wait in line at bus stops as those up front had best choice of seats. Almost no one was ever driven to school by parents.
If a kid missed a morning bus, they were stuck at home because families usually owned just one vehicle men had already driven to work. Of course, parents would then be unhappily contacted by a school for being absent that kids might be punished for. So kids were self pressured to learn how to become ready on time to catch a bus, a useful adult meeting skill also. Kids that got to school late walking into their classroom, got the disapproving eye from all.
It was during cultural changes of the 1970 that many schools relaxed dress, grooming policies, and in class room behavior policies due to bone-headed parent's lawyers threatening lawsuits. Another example of how our USA legal system lacking common sense for the sake of $$$, has been the root cause of many of later generation society ills.
WOW, I know I am old! I graduated high school in June of 1957 !OK, now I'm feeling old! This is a SENIOR forum and I graduated high school and joined the Marines in 1974 and you were in grade school?!!