Inappropriate Elementary School Attire

[flutes_and_fabric]

So today was a very warm day and one of my schools does not have ac. There were some very interesting outfits today. We had to send out a mass e-mail to parents along with some very interesting calls home. Here're some of the outfits I saw on children today:

3rd grade: stilettos, booty shorts, shirt that ended just below the boobs, hair teased, thick eyeliner, bright red lipstick (mom's a "dancer" and saw nothing wrong with her daughter's outfit)

4th grade: very long very painted nails (little decorations and rinestones glued onto the nails) not too bad, but kinda not something worth wasting money on

5th grade: spaghetti strap tank that's so loose, anyone taller than this girl (almost everyone) could look down her shirt and see no nos.

4th grade: spaghetti strap tank that's so low it showed nipples

3rd grade: boy with the words "fuck me" on his shirt

4th grade: boy with a big pot leaf

5th grade: fairy costume, complete with wings (more funny than inappropriate)

5th grade: shirt turned into a dress, no she didn't wear any pants (and we sit cross legged on the carpet in the younger grades)

4th grade: bright pink lip stick (done by mommy)

5th grade: boy just upped the gauges in his ears, I don't know how the sizing for them work, but I can now fit my thumb through his earlobe

4th grade: tank and tights (no pants, and I'm not talking spandex bottoms, I mean tights...with a control top)

3rd grade:...stuffed bra...

and I don't see any of these students 1st period, so they were all in another class already. My other school has uniforms, so they don't really face these problems.

a lot of boys have pierced ears now, and both of them, not just one

I had to fill out an abuse form today. This boy was wearing a t shirt and he hadn't raised his hand yet, so the other teachers hadn't noticed it yet. Sure enough in my class I ask a question and he's jumping out of his seat, arm in the air. I see...a tattoo. I call on him and mention "nice temporary tattoo." He tells me it's not temporary. I glance at it and sure enough, it looks pretty real. But he could be lying, you know how kids want to seem tough. I call the nurse. She calls him down a few minutes later. Next class I have to fill out my portion of the forms. It was real. 4th grade.

Bonus teacher outfit: lots of cleavage. Stilettos, tight shorts that go to just above the knee, white shirt that comes down over her stomach, black lowcut shirt overtop with the word "juicy" written over her breasts in rinestones.

Also, just wanted to mention a couple of the more interesting (but common, so they won't be able to identify themselves) names I have come across. I have 2 DD's. Yes, they spell their name DD. Pronounced just like the letter. And, I have a la-a. I had no idea how to pronounce it. Apparently it's ladasha (get it, - = dash). Oh, there's also a .y (dotty) and an an4 (anfour). And like I said, common. Between the 2 schools I had at least 2 of each of these names (my friend has 3 la-a's.)

[Hobbs]

This is why I'm in support of Parenting Licenses.

[Jester]

This is why I'm in support of Parenting Licenses.

Great idea in theory. But like many Great Ideas, it would never work in practice.

Think about it. Who would take care of the licensing? Well, I've been to where I get my driver's licenses at. Do you want THOSE people in charge of handing out parental licenses? Then there's hunting and fishing licenses...which are often sold at sporting goods stores. Thank you, no. What about marriage licenses? Yeah, right...aren't our court systems bogged down enough without adding to their workload?

So, much like communism, lifelong monogamy, and dating strippers, great theory....but in reality, it just doesn't work.

[Ree]

Parenting licenses is a fratching topic.

Get back on track or this thread will be closed.

[Hobbs]

I can't remember anyone in my school's ever so blatantly violating the dress code like that. I guess it's something not-new, but definitely different than where I lived/grew up.

On the topic of names, people who make "unique" names like that annoy me. It's really annoying during karaoke, too.

[dalesys]

Odd names aren't real new. I had a neighbor (2nd cousin's wife) born circa 1935 named D'On. Pronounced like Dion (of the Belmonts).

[Hobbs]

Odd names aren't real new. I had a neighbor (2nd cousin's wife) born circa 1935 named D'On. Pronounced like Dion (of the Belmonts).

They were in a Depression. Had to do something to cheer them up

[fireheart]

This is why every single time the schools I went to (Australian schools all have uniforms: most government schools allow parents to buy the stuff from outside and stitch on school logos) had a casual day, the notice sent home was along the lines of "students need to follow sun safe policy as well as OHS policies." In short, that translated to either t-shirts or long-sleeved shirts on top and then jeans, skirts, shorts etc. on the bottom with safe footwear.

[Hobbs]

What's Sun Safe policy?

[Jester]

Speaking of unusual names, I'd like to remind everyone that the name "Wendy," while common now, is relatively new, having been around less than 200 years. It is often mistakenly said that the name was invented by writer J.M. Barrie for his story "Peter Pan," but the name appears in U.S. records almost 80 years before the publication of "Peter Pan." (I myself believed this myth, and was typing this post to say that....and when I went to get the date of the story, found out I was once again an idiot.)

Names are often being invented....this is nothing new. My first name appears nowhere in the Bible, and was probably nonexistent in Biblical times, though I was named after my grandfather whose first name has been around forever, and does in fact appear in the Bible.

Names also often fall out of favor. We've had American Presidents named Grover, Millard, and Chester. How many people by those names do YOU know? (I know one Millard...that's it.) Names, just like anything else, change and evolve with time. One day, perhaps NOT having punctuation in your name will be considered odd. Who knows....maybe one day there will be names that are COMPLETELY punctuation. Some would be cool. Some wouldn't. I can just picture people making fun of a kid named &. "Ampersand...what a stupid name!" "Shut up, Tilde. Leave me alone. You too, Plus!"

Myself, I would be "-/". After all, it has a nice ring to it. Hell, it rhymes. What? You don't get it? Silly rabbits, it's pronounced "Dash Slash." And damn it, it fits me!

[fireheart]

What's Sun Safe policy?

Given that I live in one of the warmer countries in the world, nearly all schools have instituted a "sunsafe" policy for when their students are outside.
Basically there are three parts to it: educating students, dress codes and general weather.

Educating students:
Usually someone comes to the school and talks to them about the importance of slip, slop, slap, skin cancers and how to spot them etc. the presentation varies according to the age of the group. (Slip, slop, slap-slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat. There are two others-seek shade and slide on sunnies)

Dress code changes:
All schools require you wear a hat in the summer (either a bucket/fisherman's hat, a legionnaires hat (basically a cap with a piece of material along both sides) or a wide-brimmed hat (like what you see cricketers and/or lawn bowls folk wear) and some schools also require that you wear it in winter. For non-school uniform days, students are required to have sleeves in some shape or form.

General weather policies:
Most schools in Australia have what's called a hot weather policy. If the weather outside is going to be hotter than about 35C or so, according to the paper, the breaks are modified so students spend some time outside, but some time inside. If there are PE activities, they are held indoors or not at all. And all teachers have a huge bottle of SPF30+ sunscreen and sell little tubes of it to students. (the school, not the teachers )

[Darkforge]

And, I have a la-a. I had no idea how to pronounce it. Apparently it's ladasha

Surely it should be pronounced "La hyphon a" ?

[Lace Neil Singer]

It's not the unusual names that get me; I've encountered customer children with fairly unusual names before; a Honey, two Scarlettes, a Summer and a Hector, for example. It's either the ones that are just ugly and stupid sounding; for example, Tangerine, or the ones that are the same old names, but spelt in really moronic ways; example, Maddysonne. All that does is condemn the poor kid to a life forever spent telling people how to spell their name.

[Jester]

All that does is condemn the poor kid to a life forever spent telling people how to spell their name.

True that....but that being said, there are many people with common names with common spellings that still spend their lives telling people how to spell their names.

I happen to be one of them.

[AyreBiskits]

i HAVE spent all my life telling people how to spell my name right it's a fairly common name (at least i think so) but my parents decided to add additional letters to it so one of my grandparents could pronounce it. but even with the add-on, i've seen my name spelled many different ways. some i can't even begin to figure out how someone came to spelling it that way. i like my name the way it is but i think the only bad thing was that i couldn't get a preprinted mug (or anything) with my name on it.

eh, maybe that was a good thing afterall