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Hmmm. Wouldn’t this ban priests from school grounds? At least those on duty, who they wanted to hire as counselors without any certification or training.
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How much more black could the contents of my wardrobe be, Mr Tufnel?
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What I want to know is; “Is this enforced at Catholic Schools, especially for the faculty and staff?”
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Probably not. When ever a city is white majority without much of a minority community to go after, they just find other targets, and punks, goths, and other weirdos and non-conformists (who might also be white) make great ones… Brian Deneke was killed in Amarillo back in 99 and the defense ran with “he deserved it because he was a punk.” The kid who did it got a slap on the wrist (though he violated parole and ended up in jail). Also, the West Memphis 3… Kids playing D&D… etc… Authoritarians always need someone to go after in order to look tough and keep prying eyes away from their own failings and often crimes.
It’s not the same kind of systemic discrimination faced by POC, but there has been times when kids who embrace subcultural movements get targeted by people in power.
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texas politicians are bad for my mental health, and I don’t even live there. Bastards.
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A friend of mine who transferred into my school told me about the private school he went to before. All white, upper class kids, all wealthy, but with a large spread between the the well off and the truly rich. They had a strict dress code to ‘prevent bullying’. The rich kids made sure to have different coloured socks, to differentiate. When they all had to wear white socks, they got shoes with different coloured laces. Always some little sign to set them apart from the merely well off. He said the bullying and classism were pretty brutal, mentally and physically. When the school switched to full on uniforms, that you had to buy from the school, so they were all the same - the rich kids parents had their kids uniforms tailored - so everyone could still tell who the tip top were. I don’t think there is any level of conformity that can erase this kind of behaviour.
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The poor/er kids at my snooty prep school didn’t wear/couldn’t afford the docksiders nor LL Bean shoes the rich kids wore.
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Hmm… I’d say it’s not about conformity, but about class war. It’s almost always been the elites who are truly interested in using bullying to retain their status as elites? What happened to Brian Deneke (or the west memphis three, or, hell, my old HS friend Josh Storey, for that matter), that was done at the hands of others within their general social class (though the upper class played a role, no doubt).
But in general, the attempt at conformity is usually aimed at kids who don’t conform for whatever reason (for how they dress, the music they listen to, their race, sexuality, gender, etc).
I went to a public school in a small, community, outside a small town, and most of us were working class. We had a few solidly middle class kids, but class wasn’t a huge differentiator. Kids with means went to the one local private school in town.
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That’s a Waldorf school thing, too. Many of them have rules against students and/or instructors wearing black.
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I’d love to see a group of students show up in black slacks and rented black blazers or sport jackets. Would this principal actually try to take action against those students?
How about a businessperson who comes to school for a Bring your Parent to Work day wearing a suit or a tux?
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Blockquote “What they are not allowing for students to wear clothing that is black from top to bottom,”
Try diagramming that sentence.
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I would not have gotten through school without Type O Negative. Thank you.
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1998 called and would like to know why they went this route instead of working on why we’re focusing on this instead of easy access to guns, toxic masculinity, and addressing actual mental health issues (not actually related to Columbine, but still important) because we’ve had over a quarter decade to learn from that year’s moral panic (reminder the media version of the shooters was all wrong and the kids in black got blamed anyway).
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Absolutely legend:
Yeah, because it looks like, under the student dress code, jackets are also forbidden (inside buildings), because they have pockets, and the section on allowed pants just mentions blue jeans and khakis. The dress code is generally ridiculous and restrictive.
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Malicious compliance?
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