What foods and celebrations are okay at school?

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Awww crap we have a Yankee on this blog. Run for der hills Ella-mae.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain how the money pinning works? Do kids know to come to school with cash? Is the money actually pinned to the persons clothes, and if so-with straight pins (which seems a bit dangerous) or safety pins? Who is supplying the pins-does the birthday boy/girl know to come to school with a handful of pins? Just curious... Thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is not a joke.... how dare you dismiss it because you have never heard of it before. Everything doesn't revolve around you and your bizarro world. Students pin money on the kids who have birthdays at our school. This is really much ado about nothing. It is a fad that was brought up here from schools in the south. Yes, popular students benefit from it immensley. The average student gets about $20 in donations...with the first pinning being of the parent.

This is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of. No surprise it comes from the South.

This was done at my high school in the late 80's/early 90's (Pittsburgh Public Schools).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how the money pinning works? Do kids know to come to school with cash? Is the money actually pinned to the persons clothes, and if so-with straight pins (which seems a bit dangerous) or safety pins? Who is supplying the pins-does the birthday boy/girl know to come to school with a handful of pins? Just curious... Thanks.

Just say no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how the money pinning works? Do kids know to come to school with cash? Is the money actually pinned to the persons clothes, and if so-with straight pins (which seems a bit dangerous) or safety pins? Who is supplying the pins-does the birthday boy/girl know to come to school with a handful of pins? Just curious... Thanks.

Clothes pins

[Anonymous]

Safety pins are used. Some students do bring their own set of safety pins. It is such a harmless act of celebrating someone's birthday.

Again, what is old is new again. A poster said this was done in the 80's, so history does repeats itself.

[Anonymous]

It is not a joke.... how dare you dismiss it because you have never heard of it before. Everything doesn't revolve around you and your bizarro world. Students pin money on the kids who have birthdays at our school. This is really much ado about nothing. It is a fad that was brought up here from schools in the south. Yes, popular students benefit from it immensley. The average student gets about $20 in donations...with the first pinning being of the parent.

How odd. So it really must only be for the popular kids...and the rich ones. If every kid gets about $20 in donations, but you don't usually get anything if you don't pin, then about 20 kids are pinning each other with a spare $400 they have laying around to pin these popular kids.

Sounds pretty stupid and elitist to me.

[Anonymous]

Elitist in what way... Remember it happens everyday in a month and the possibility of having a large number of kids sharing the same birthday is can range. Yes, the average is about 20 dollars but the participation has been large. Freshmen are new too the fad but the upperclassmen are old-hats and enjoy the activity. Wishing someone a happy birthday by pinning a dollar is not stupid but to each its own.

[Anonymous]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Anonymous]

Lonely much while in school

[Anonymous]

I'm born and raised in the south and pinning money on kids is NOT a southern thing. Neither is a money dance at dweddings. This is is so tacky. It's tacky for adults but inexcusable for kids. Why kind of white trash school allows This? my immediate family is upper middle class and my extended family is holler WV...no one pins money on kids or atnweddings. I have only seen this lunacy at Italian weddings or NJ/NY weddings.