Anonymous
02/27/2013 23:10
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Boys who wear shorts or no coats to school in the winter are sometimes defying their parents. I teach a particular skill after school and I see this all of the time.
I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".
Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.
Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.
Get over yourself.
Do some parenting. Stop letting your children run the house.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 22:40
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Anonymous wrote:Boys who wear shorts or no coats to school in the winter are sometimes defying their parents. I teach a particular skill after school and I see this all of the time.
I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".
Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.
Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.
Get over yourself.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 22:38
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Have you noticed a lot of girls wearing flip flops in the winter?
Anonymous
02/27/2013 22:33
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Boys who wear shorts or no coats to school in the winter are sometimes defying their parents. I teach a particular skill after school and I see this all of the time.
I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".
Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.
Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.
I ask these numbskulls what they are thinking of and they always say, "I don't get cold".
Yet if there was a fire or bomb scare at their school and they had to stand outside for three hours their parents would be the first to whine that the school didn't provide a warm place for their darlings to stay.
Parents! If you see your boys trying to get out of the house with shorts or with no coat when its 25 degrees ORDER them to change clothing.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 21:37
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the 80s...and boys did this all the time...and even in college in the 90s there were quite a few that did it.
+1 - I'm 34 and that was a "trend" when I was in middle and high school too.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 21:34
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Anonymous wrote:Climate change. It does not get that cold here in the winter.
The boys got off my son's bus coatless one day in January when the high was 18 degrees. Stubbornness knows no hypothermia.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 20:36
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Climate change. It does not get that cold here in the winter.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 20:26
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
I teach ES and it is pretty common for the "cool" boys to wear lacrosse shorts almost all year. It is pretty ridiculous to me but my son will probably want to do it too in the near future. The "coolest" boys with the "cool" older brothers do this in the primary grades but most of the other boys start in 3rd or 4th grade. Sure beats their pants hanging off their butts!
Anonymous
02/27/2013 11:24
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
It definitely seems to be a thing. I watch these boys at the bus stop in shorts and no coats and they look miserable. But cool, I suppose. 
My 6th grade boy still wears a coat. A 4th grade boy at the bus stop asked him "why are you wearing that big puffy coat?" He replied, "ummm...because it's freezing cold." The younger boy said, "true, but it's not doing anything for your image." My ds responded, "I think you need to be more worried about your own image and less about mine." Btw, my ds is a very cool, well liked kid. The younger one is not so much but trying damn hard to be.
My 6th grade boy still wears a coat. A 4th grade boy at the bus stop asked him "why are you wearing that big puffy coat?" He replied, "ummm...because it's freezing cold." The younger boy said, "true, but it's not doing anything for your image." My ds responded, "I think you need to be more worried about your own image and less about mine." Btw, my ds is a very cool, well liked kid. The younger one is not so much but trying damn hard to be.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 11:22
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
I've known lots of boys who go from 6th to 9th grade without ever wearing long pants to school or ever getting a hair cut (and getting a sure short cut in 9th grade). Compared to what you could be dealing with, I welcome these issues.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 11:04
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
I've seen the shorts thing on moderately cold days. Not super-cold days. But the no-coats is new to me. And so young! Great. Something else to look forward to.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 10:31
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Last year my then-first grader hated being cold. He wore a huge heavy coat, ski gloves, balaclava, etc. every day- even when the temp was 55. This year he has become acutely aware that BOYS DON'T WEAR COATS and now dresses accordingly. In January, when the high didn't go above freezing for almost a week, he (and every other 7 + yo boy) stepped off the bus every day with all his cold weather gear stashed in his backpack. Wouldn't be caught dead in a jacket. I've seen older boys wearing shorts on cold days, and DS still thinks that is weird, but it's probably a matter of time before he wants to do the same.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 10:22
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
This is not new.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 10:21
Subject: Re:What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
I grew up in the 80s...and boys did this all the time...and even in college in the 90s there were quite a few that did it.
Anonymous
02/27/2013 09:43
Subject: What's with the trend of pre-teen and teen boys wearing shorts to school in winter
Is this a new "cool" thing to do?