One reason why I put the private school sticker on my car.

[Anonymous]

So is it gauche to put a child's public school sticker on your car? Or does this only apply to privates? Every single car in my neighborhood has the local elementary school magnet on it. Never thought twice about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must admit, I hate the sticker, but put it on my car out of a sense of obligation - to prove to the other parents at the school that I love the school as much as they do. Craziness ...

In our case, it was our kids who wanted to see "school pride" or some such thing. And mommy's car wasn't enough. Daddy had to get one, too. Our children are very young elementary schoolers. When they get older we will teach about "showing off." For now, we leave it at not talking with anyone about what they, and we, do and don't have.

I don't think it's ever too early to teach kids about not showing off. Our kids never asked to put school stickers on our car because they picked up early on their parents' views about not showing off with designer and brand-names labels. We never had to say a thing to the kids.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's in good taste to sport all that insignia gear, whether one is an alumnus or not. I agree it's weirder when parents are the ones wearing all the school logos, but it's tacky all around.

[Anonymous]

Hard to believe anyone would judge someone else over their choice to display or not display a bumper sticker for a school, a sports team, a college, the military, or a politician. Get a life, folks.

[Anonymous]

I think bumper stickers are interesting on the road. I wish there were more of them around, generally---makes driving more fun.

[Anonymous]

We're at a wonderful, small school that just opened a couple of years ago. We have the bumper magnet to help the school "get the word out" and bring more students to the school. We don't want to lose the school due to underenrollment if people don't even know it's there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe anyone would judge someone else over their choice to display or not display a bumper sticker for a school, a sports team, a college, the military, or a politician. Get a life, folks.

If I consider it in bad taste for me to display a school's bumper-sticker, I must consider it in bad taste when others to do the same; otherwise I would be applying a double standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe anyone would judge someone else over their choice to display or not display a bumper sticker for a school, a sports team, a college, the military, or a politician. Get a life, folks.

If I consider it in bad taste for me to display a school's bumper-sticker, I must consider it in bad taste when others to do the same; otherwise I would be applying a double standard.

Perhaps. But people with class keep their judgments to themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe anyone would judge someone else over their choice to display or not display a bumper sticker for a school, a sports team, a college, the military, or a politician. Get a life, folks.

If I consider it in bad taste for me to display a school's bumper-sticker, I must consider it in bad taste when others to do the same; otherwise I would be applying a double standard.

Perhaps. But people with class keep their judgments to themselves.

Not the C-word again! You just marked yourself by using that word -- and made a judgment as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe anyone would judge someone else over their choice to display or not display a bumper sticker for a school, a sports team, a college, the military, or a politician. Get a life, folks.

If I consider it in bad taste for me to display a school's bumper-sticker, I must consider it in bad taste when others to do the same; otherwise I would be applying a double standard.

Perhaps. But people with class keep their judgments to themselves.

I do: I never say a word to the owners about their bumper stickers.

[Anonymous]

We have the stickers on our windows and bumpers, my husband wears the tie all the time, my DD has gotten a tattoo on her moneymaker, we have beer can wraps for the beach and I even wear a thong from her school. WTF? I'm proud. Money changes everything.

[Anonymous]

I went to a terrible public school in the middle of nowhere. We all had stickers on our cars. It's not like we thought our school was any good, it was just a way of showing community.

I think you're all reading too much into the stickers. Or maybe it's false humility. If you decline to show a little school spirit, you must actually think you have something to brag about.

[Anonymous]

New poster. Everyone around me has stickers/magnets. I think it's nice. They range from public schools, to Catholic schools, to private schools of all sorts. I think it's nice. I never ever thought of it as "showing off" and in fact I think that's an odd thing to write. Why are you so concerned about other people's bumper stickers - -geez.

I agree wholeheartedly with 20:40 - false humility mixed with lots of condescension.

[Anonymous]

I'd rather see your St. Albans sticker than your Obama sticker. Or worse, a "Biden 08" sticker. I saw one of those on Capitol Hill the other day and laughed so hard I almost missed the light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather see your St. Albans sticker than your Obama sticker. Or worse, a "Biden 08" sticker. I saw one of those on Capitol Hill the other day and laughed so hard I almost missed the light.

too bad you are going to have look at this stickers for another six years.