Anonymous wrote:I went to classes in my flannel pjs at my ivy university and turned out ok. as long as they are learning, let them be.

+1, their outfit does not determine their understanding of the content.
-MS teacher of over 25 years

I went to classes in my flannel pjs at my ivy university and turned out ok. as long as they are learning, let them be.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. These are not private schools, it's up to you to parent and advise your kids too.

I went to public school. They used to have much higher standards in the 90s.

1890s? I was in high school in the 1990s, and the style was to wear your pants low so everyone could see your boxers.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always pointing and chanting "hussy" at girls wearing crop tops.

Exposed bellies aren’t okay for school, neither male nor female.

Same holds true for pajamas. The lack of a bare minimum of standards is ridiculous.

So would you ban pajamas days in elementary school?

What’s the difference between flannel pants and pajama pants?

You think that having a “pajama day” for kindergarteners is the same thing as having high schoolers show up at school in their pj’s every day? Come back when you’re capable of an actual discussion on the topic.

A few years ago the CWES principal considered banning pajamas except on designated spirit days. She gave up, though, and didn't do it.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always pointing and chanting "hussy" at girls wearing crop tops.

Exposed bellies aren’t okay for school, neither male nor female.

Same holds true for pajamas. The lack of a bare minimum of standards is ridiculous.

So would you ban pajamas days in elementary school?

What’s the difference between flannel pants and pajama pants?

You think that having a “pajama day” for kindergarteners is the same thing as having high schoolers show up at school in their pj’s every day? Come back when you’re capable of an actual discussion on the topic.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. These are not private schools, it's up to you to parent and advise your kids too.

I went to public school. They used to have much higher standards in the 90s.

The people writing the rules in the 90s also wore suits/tie and pantyhose every day.

Anonymous wrote:PJs are very popular in our MS. Back to school day was full of too short bottoms and exposed bellies. Flip-flops are rare, most kids wear socks and Birks/sneakers. Crocs are no longer fashionable.

Maybe not at your MS, but they're still quite in at our school and around our neighborhood.

Anonymous wrote:Dress codes target girls. Good luck finding knee length shorts.

Yeah, the entire fashion of our culture would have to change for knee length shorts to be a thing here. Though recently when at a waterpark watching all the boys be able to slide down inflatables without getting hurt in their longer swimsuits while most girls avoided them...I again thought about how unfair it is that female fashion isn't really ever about function.

PP again, my middle schooler also has a tiny waist and long legs and was complaining about the "short shorts" portion of the dress code because it's impossible to find shorts that fit around the waist that don't look really short on her. I told her that as long as her butt cheeks aren't showing, nobody will care.

My middle schooler came home saying the dress code says no crop tops. I asked her if anyone was wearing crop tops yesterday and she said no. That said, I think the school's definition of drop tops (loose fitting and belly baring) and the shirts that are popular right now (which are more just like the baby tees we wore in the 90s) are very different.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always pointing and chanting "hussy" at girls wearing crop tops.

Exposed bellies aren’t okay for school, neither male nor female.

Same holds true for pajamas. The lack of a bare minimum of standards is ridiculous.

So would you ban pajamas days in elementary school?

What’s the difference between flannel pants and pajama pants?

There are no dress code standards. You can't hold kids back either, the whole permissive system has the lowest standards in the history of school.

It's like day care for high school aged kids. They watch them until they are told they have graduated.

It's up to you as a parent to tech them how to dress.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, my neighbors girls (4th and 6th) were wearing dropped/belly baring shirts at the bus stop today and they came home on the bus, so it's clearly not against dress code!

Yikes 4th and 6th graders with their stomachs out? I can't imagine the parental thought process on that!

Their mom is young, cute, blonde, and doesn't dress much differently from her kids to be honest. She's very sweet, actually.

PJs are very popular in our MS. Back to school day was full of too short bottoms and exposed bellies. Flip-flops are rare, most kids wear socks and Birks/sneakers. Crocs are no longer fashionable.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always pointing and chanting "hussy" at girls wearing crop tops.

Exposed bellies aren’t okay for school, neither male nor female.

Same holds true for pajamas. The lack of a bare minimum of standards is ridiculous.

+10000