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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yes, polo shirt and khakis are just fine for a visit.  The school probably will tell you want is appropriate anyway -- depending on the activities/weather/program, etc. [/quote]

It really depends on the school. [b] Polo and khakis at GDS, for example, will clearly mark you as an applicant/outsider, where tshirts rule the day.  Tshirts at Beauvoir, however, probably gets an x next to your DC's name[/b].  No shirts at Burke probably gets you auto admitted![/quote]

This is absolute nonsense. First of all, no school that purports to celebrate "diversity" should be labelling anyone as an "outsider" based on something as superficial as what clothes their mother had clean for them on a given morning in November when they went to GDS for their school visit.. If they do judge someone based on a polo shirt, then that puts the lie to all the claims they make about tolerance, differences and diversity.

Secondly, DC went to Beauvoir for 5 years and wore T-shirts and jeans ( many times with holes in one knee or both) nearly everyday, and his reports were glowing with no trace of an "X" anywhere near him for the fact that his Mom liked mini boden, and tea. Maybe three times a year DC wore a blazer and dress shoes for Thanksgiving chapel of graduation or something like that.  That  does not constiture a big deal or a "cultural shift". Its called you are inside a cathedral, dress nice. period. Similarly, I would not send my DC to a Bar Mtzfa in jeans and a T-shirt as that would be dissrepectful to the family, their religious community, and the other gathered guests.[/quote]

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